Critic Reviews
| 60 |
Hollywood Reporter Barry Garron
Although the writing is not always even, the cast is absolutely first-rate. |
| 50 |
New York Daily News David Hinckley
[It is] designed to elicit not shock and awe, but shock and guffaw. "The Underground" generates both - but not often, and not necessarily at the same time. |
| 38 |
People Weekly Tom Gliatto
Most of the show's humor remains submerged. [18 Sep 2006, p.39] |
| 30 |
Variety Brian Lowry
This latest sketch exercise plays like warmed-over improv stew that labors way too hard to shock. |
| 30 |
The New York Times Virginia Heffernan
This is not exactly groundbreaking. |
| 25 |
Chicago Sun-Times Doug Elfman
Mostly unfunny. |
| 20 |
Detroit Free Press Mike Duffy
A relentlessly raunchy chucklehead stew of lewd crudity and cheap, easy ethnic stereotypes. |
| 20 |
Boston Globe Matthew Gilbert
"The Underground" doesn't flesh out its envelope-pushing concepts with writing or piquant characterization. |
| 20 |
Philadelphia Daily News Ellen Gray
As a viewer, what gets under my skin is seeing a funny guy with all the freedom in the world - because it's hard to imagine greater freedom existing on TV than that granted to Wayans by Showtime - not being able to come up with anything funnier than jokes about so-called private parts. |
| 20 |
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Rob Owen
"The Underground" plays like a rerun, an unfunny, overly gross one at that. |
| 16 |
Entertainment Weekly Michael Endelman
A cafeteria of crap. [15 Sep 2006, p.68] |
| 0 |
TV Guide Matt Roush
The freedom to be crude and vulgar seems to have robbed him of creativity. |
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