| 70 |
Newsday Verne Gay
A show that is so achingly familiar - in content, tone, stars, everything - that it's actually funny. |
| 60 |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer Melanie McFarland
You won't be quoting lines from it over Friday morning coffee, but it is, if not good, then good enough. |
| 58 |
Entertainment Weekly Gillian Flynn
Sometimes what should be dark comedy is just plain depressing. [8 Sep 2006, p.156] |
| 50 |
New York Daily News David Hinckley
"'Til Death" plays like a tired reworking of "Married ... With Children," but without the children. |
| 50 |
Hollywood Reporter Barry Garron
The harsh reality is that it will be lucky to get the time it needs to figure out how to become the show it was meant to be. |
| 50 |
The New York Times Virginia Heffernan
It’s pretty easy to loathe this stuff if you like your comedy more ragged, drug-addled and confrontational. But there’s an easygoing red-state pleasantness to it too, a celebration of timeless and consoling suburban inertia. |
| 50 |
Chicago Sun-Times Doug Elfman
The first episode is OK. Predictable. Standard. But Garrett's funny, and he and Fisher work great together. |
| 50 |
LA Weekly Robert Abele
The entertainment value in this otherwise rudimentary sitcom lies in watching Garrett aim for front-and-center Gleason-ness. |
| 40 |
Orlando Sentinel Hal Boedeker
'Til Death takes predictable, mean-spirited turns, and Garrett acts with off-putting self-satisfaction. His Eddie is no charmer like his bumbling Robert Barone. |
| 40 |
Detroit Free Press Mike Duffy
There are occasional funny moments amid the raging comic mediocrity. |
| 40 |
Newark Star-Ledger Alan Sepinwall
It's not a great sitcom, not even really a good one, and the strain of trying to sell such mediocre material will no doubt get to Garrett in a few weeks, but it's still vastly better than its companion show. |
| 40 |
Washington Post Tom Shales
At least [it] has possibilities and a good excuse for a giggle now and then. |
| 40 |
Kansas City Star Aaron Barnhart
"'Til Death" seems a pretty thin concept. |
| 37 |
USA Today Robert Bianco
The main structural problem for the show is that neither the couples nor the contrast makes any sense.... Still, this being a comedy, the more troubling problem is that no one is funny, starting with Garrett. |
| 30 |
Variety Brian Lowry
Put it this way: Any comedy that milks multiple jokes from a character being named "Woodcock" is pretty much running on fumes. |
| 30 |
Philadelphia Daily News Ellen Gray
Without the "Raymond" writing team behind him, Garrett's not so much unleashed as he is uninteresting. |
| 25 |
New York Post Linda Stasi
"'Til Death's" Garrett, the man who made Jackie Gleason look like a disgusting manic-depressive jerk in that awful CBS movie, seems to be bringing the same unpleasant character to his first leading-man role in a sitcom. |
| 20 |
Chicago Tribune Maureen Ryan
"Arrested Development" this ain't. |
| 20 |
Los Angeles Times Paul Brownfield
Almost as soon as the sitcom begins you can feel where every joke is going to end. |
| 10 |
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Rob Owen
The pilot plot... follows a well-worn path of sitcoms traceable back to when cavemen acted them out with large dinosaur bones as props. |
| 10 |
Time James Poniewozik
It's a lame premise burdened with even lamer jokes. |
| 0 |
San Francisco Chronicle Tim Goodman
This is probably the worst sitcom of the fall. |
