| 70 |
Washington Post Tom Shales
The overall effect is pleasing, light, cheerful. |
| 60 |
Orlando Sentinel Hal Boedeker
The madcap action turns repetitive in the premiere. |
| 60 |
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Rob Owen
[A] cute wisp of a series. |
| 50 |
San Francisco Chronicle Tim Goodman
The pilot looks dangerously flawed and seriously underwhelming. |
| 50 |
Detroit Free Press Mike Duffy
There are moments of dizzy, semisweet fun to be had on the premiere. But the honeymoon could be short. |
| 50 |
Salon Heather Havrilesky
As annoying as Kelley can be, I can't really think of a better writer to take on an even soapier, wedding-themed version of "Grey's Anatomy," which is about where this one lands, tonally. |
| 40 |
Los Angeles Times Paul Brownfield
Stale. |
| 40 |
New York Magazine John Leonard
The show’s not awful, but not Robert Altman, either. |
| 40 |
Philadelphia Inquirer Jonathan Storm
Only two members of the core cast appear even slightly interesting. |
| 40 |
Variety Brian Lowry
Even with an attractive cast and tart moments, the whole remains less than the sum of its parts. |
| 38 |
New York Daily News David Hinckley
Even the best home run hitters can swing and miss badly, though - and on "The Wedding Bells," all of them do. |
| 38 |
Chicago Sun-Times Doug Elfman
An anemic, unfunny romantic comedy. |
| 37 |
USA Today Robert Bianco
Unfortunately, the comedy is Kelley at his most forced and artificial. |
| 30 |
The New York Times Alessandra Stanley
Mr. Kelley is a gifted television producer, and “The Wedding Bells” has funny moments, but this series is not a labor of love. It’s a labored effort to simulate romance. |
| 30 |
Newark Star-Ledger Alan Sepinwall
It abandons all of Kelley's strengths, like the legal setting and male bonding, and drowns itself in his weaknesses: women discussing their feelings, women flirting with men, women acting body-conscious... basically, anything involving the female gender. |
| 30 |
Hollywood Reporter Barry Garron
"Bells" needs to be about more than pacifying that week's psycho bride (or her demanding mother), or it risks being an updated version of "The Love Boat." |
| 30 |
TV Guide Matt Roush
All together now: "I don't!" |
| 20 |
San Jose Mercury News Charlie McCollum
A joyless and certainly unromantic mess. |
| 20 |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer Melanie McFarland
This is the skin of a David E. Kelley show with none of the usual muscle, brains, spirit or cheek behind it. |
| 20 |
Chicago Tribune Maureen Ryan
I wouldn’t rush to clear space on the old DVR for this muddled marital mess. |
| 20 |
Kansas City Star Aaron Barnhart
A familiar mishmash of David Kelley formulaic elements. |
| 20 |
Miami Herald Glenn Garvin
Somebody on The Wedding Bells is always saying ''We need to talk about it,'' to which the reply is invariably something like "I'm not big on dating men I've slept with.'' |
| 20 |
Boston Globe Matthew Gilbert
A painfully lightweight collection of stock comic wedding situations... that Kelley could have written on his PDA at the gym. |
| 16 |
Entertainment Weekly Gillian Flynn
Wedding Bells' pilot concludes with a bride literally catching fire, a suitably ugly ending for a truly grotesque show. |
| 0 |
Newsday Verne Gay
It is awful. It is truly awful. It is awful in ways that make the word "awful" seem inadequate. |
