| 91 |
Entertainment Weekly Ari Karpel
MG is wonderfully absurd and the supporting cast is satisfyingly straight-faced. [21 Mar 2008, p.53] |
| 80 |
The New York Times Ginia Bellafante
Guided by an ambient lunacy, the show resists forced restlessness, settling in and fleshing out its characters’ idiosyncrasies instead. |
| 80 |
Newsday Diane Werts
ABC's latest single-camera comedy is utterly relatable. Even better, it's filled with the same warm yet witty, always smart and eccentric vibe as previous misfit-student faves "Square Pegs," "Popular" and "Malcolm in the Middle." |
| 75 |
New York Post Linda Stasi
A sophomoric comedy about high school (and really aren't all high school comedies, er, sophomoric?) that supplies as many laughs as a whoopie cushion in a lecture hall. |
| 70 |
Boston Globe Matthew Gilbert
It's a light half-hour of adults acting like teens, and teens acting like teens, that won't trick you into thinking or rethinking much of anything important. |
| 70 |
Chicago Tribune Maureen Ryan
This new comedy, which stars the wildly talented Judy Greer, is terrific. |
| 70 |
Los Angeles Times Mary McNamara
Yet silly and unsurprising as it seems, Miss Guided has something going for it that many predictable sitcoms do not: a uniformly talented cast. |
| 60 |
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Rob Owen
For viewers willing to give themselves over to whimsy and let go of any expectation that they're watching characters who resemble real-life human beings, this comedy has its minor charms. |
| 60 |
Orlando Sentinel Staff (Not Credited)
Stylish comedy boasts A-grade cast.... But the show overdoes the gimmicks, and the scheduling is misguided. |
| 60 |
Philadelphia Daily News Ellen Gray
The comedy's broad, the characters broader--Chris Parnell plays a control freak of a vice principal, Brooke Burns the former homecoming queen from Becky's year who's just joined the faculty--but there are moments when you can see it turning into something watchable. |
| 60 |
TV Guide Matt Roush
Miss/Guided is silly but sweet and would be more embraceable if it would drop the misguided (sorry) gimmick of having everyone deliver jokes right into the camera. |
| 60 |
Time James Poniewozik
The comedy has all the ingredients, and Greer is perfectly cast... The problem so far is the writing. The jokes in the pilot were broader and more obviously than I'd have hoped, but the big isssue is that the writers need to find the right balance for Becky. |
| 50 |
Washington Post John Maynard
It's easy to root for the very watchable Greer, both as the underdog and as a charming actress who deserves a better script. |
| 50 |
Newark Star-Ledger Alan Sepinwall
There's nothing annoying about it, but there's also nothing memorable. |
| 50 |
San Francisco Chronicle Tim Goodman
The pilot of Miss Guided suffers a bit from being too cute with a device where the actors talk into the camera for narration and expository purposes. |
| 50 |
San Jose Mercury News Charlie McCollum
The various parts don't quite hold together, and there are too many rough patches to make Miss Guided an unqualified success. It could get better, although it has just a handful of episodes in which to make that happen. |
| 50 |
USA Today Robert Bianco
The trouble for Becky and her show is that she really knows nothing, which vitiates what could have been an interesting concept. |
| 40 |
Variety Brian Lowry
Beyond Greer's latter-day Mary Tyler Moore shtick, there's not a note or character that doesn't feel warmed over. |
