Metacritic TV

'Til Death Do Us Part

SERIES: Court TV, Monday 10:00p (30 minutes)

Starring John Waters

Created by Jeff Lieberman

Genre(s): Crime, Drama, True Story

FIRST AIR DATE: March 19, 2007

Overall Metascore

This is a weighted, normalized average of all individual scores given by critics, on a scale of 0 (worst) to 100 (best).

44 / 100

Critic Reviews

70 The New York Times Ginia Bellafante
Good sickly fun.
67 Entertainment Weekly Mandi Bierly
The premise is promising. Too bad the poorly-acted premiere is a snooze. [23 Mar 2007, p.55]
63 New York Post Linda Stasi
What I like about this series is that it is anti-slick and anti-pretty.
60 Washington Post Tom Shales
" 'Til Death Do Us Part" would be sort of ultimately ordinary, the very definition of a negligible trifle, if Waters weren't lurking around.
50 Newsday Diane Werts
The stories may hardly be innovative... but their very familiarity becomes comforting.
40 Wall Street Journal Nancy DeWolf Smith
It's all done in an over-the-top, low-budget sort of way.
38 Chicago Sun-Times Doug Elfman
It's not a great show, but it's a good concept.
30 Boston Globe Matthew Gilbert
" 'Til Death Do Us Part"... almost contains enough comically clumsy filming and overacting to achieve camp. Almost, but not quite enough, even with Waters doing his twisted Rod Serling bit.
30 Hollywood Reporter Ray Richmond
It isn't that "Death" is terrible. It's just too broad to be taken seriously.
30 New York Daily News David Hinckley
Waters may kill me, but the rest of "'Til Death" doesn't have the same pitch-perfect tone.
25 People Weekly Tom Gliatto
It's Court TV's first original scripted drama, and it's bad. [16 Apr 2007, p.43]
10 Variety Brian Lowry
It's a new twist on an old-fashioned anthology, though the endings are only vaguely macabre or surprising, while the murders and sexual situations are trashy but too poorly executed to qualify as titillating.

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