| 75 |
USA Today Robert Bianco
As a whole, the show is as cute and easy to like as its star, and that's saying something. |
| 63 |
Chicago Sun-Times Doug Elfman
It's slicker, more ambitious and has more chuckles than expected. |
| 60 |
TV Guide Matt Roush
Think "Ally McCouric" in a bubbly slapstick trifle that plays like David E. Kelley lite: less offensive, also less original. |
| 50 |
San Jose Mercury News Charlie McCollum
The romantic comedy comes off as a rather charming, likable hour, thanks in large measure to a cast that gives it more than a bit of zip. |
| 42 |
Entertainment Weekly Gillian Flynn
Romijn can't be blamed for the misfire... No, one must blame the rush this unimaginative series is in. [7 Apr 2006, p.52] |
| 40 |
Hollywood Reporter Barry Garron
For someone named Pepper, this character is awfully bland. |
| 40 |
Los Angeles Times Paul Brownfield
Romijn is quite fetching here, both in looks and performance. |
| 40 |
Orlando Sentinel Hal Boedeker
The plots take such silly turns that Pepper Dennis makes The Mary Tyler Moore Show look hard-hitting. |
| 40 |
Arizona Republic Bill Goodykoontz
The word the network would probably be happy to hear used to describe the show is "cute." And it is, a little. But a much more accurate description would be "disposable." |
| 38 |
People Weekly Tom Gliatto
The show is just as bad as several other recent WB shows (Modern Men, The Bedford Diaries), neither cartoonish enough nor realistic enough to register as anything more than a conceptual shell with a handful of dried peas rattling inside. [24 Apr 2006, p.39] |
| 38 |
New York Daily News David Hinckley
The cast is pleasant enough, and Romijn certainly tackles her character with the abandon and conviction necessary to anchor a comedy-drama series. Were the show better written, these actors probably could deliver the goods with no problem. |
| 30 |
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Rob Owen
Romijin... [is] too cold and aloof to play the lead. |
| 30 |
Variety Brian Lowry
[It] isn't terrible but doesn't pack much of a comedic wallop. |
| 30 |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer Melanie McFarland
Next week's episode comes across a lot like the part of the porn script that begs for the fast-forward button. Seriously, it's all there -- beautiful women in tight outfits, thick innuendo, weak setups and thin plot progression. |
| 30 |
The New York Times Alessandra Stanley
Ms. Romijn's hourlong show tries to combine the arch satire of "Desperate Housewives" with the chick-lit romance of "Grey's Anatomy," and falls short of both. |
| 30 |
Washington Post Tom Shales
One view of the skyline against Lake Michigan is breathtaking. It's kind of a bad sign when you wish there were more scenery in a show and fewer scenes with characters and dialogue and stuff like that. |
| 30 |
Boston Globe Matthew Gilbert
While there's nothing cringingly awful about this new WB series -- see Fox's ''Unan1mous" for that -- it nonetheless succumbs to one of the great TV sins: mediocrity. |
| 25 |
San Francisco Chronicle Tim Goodman
"Pepper Dennis" is so poorly written that the hokey dialogue not only besmirches journalism, but television journalism, which really takes some serious hackery to accomplish. |
| 20 |
Chicago Tribune Maureen Ryan
The show is a particularly awkward attempt at a "dramedy": It tries to make you care about Dennis' quest to become a news anchor and meet the right guy, yet it makes light of the fact that Dennis is shrill, superficial and a bit promiscuous. |
| 20 |
Newsday Verne Gay
A slight, cartoonish, and terribly, terribly obvious dramedy. |
| 10 |
Miami Herald Glenn Garvin
The WB is lying when it boasts that Pepper Dennis signifies a new television life form, the one-hour comedy. Boring, yes; witless, definitely; trashy, oh my God yes. Comedy? Dream on, guys. |
