Accidentally on Purpose: Season 1
  • Network: CBS
  • Series Premiere Date: Sep 21, 2009
  • Season #: 1
Metascore
49 out of 100

Mixed or average reviews - based on 18 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 18
  2. Mixed: 11 out of 18
  3. Negative: 4 out of 18
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  1. Chicago Sun-Times
    Reviewed by: Paige Wiser
    38
    The show has similarities with the movie "Knocked Up," but is missing its most important ingredient: humor.
  2. Miami Herald
    Reviewed by: Glenn Garvin
    30
    Virtually everything in Accidentally on Purpose is some kind of cheap sexual crack or double entendre. The essential sweetness Elfman showed in Dharma & Greg and the later, unfortunately little-watched Courting Alex curdles into mean self-parody as she scorns her new boy-toy as an intellectual and economic inferior even as she grovels before his bedroom skills.
  3. Philadelphia Inquirer
    Reviewed by: Jonathan Storm
    30
    Accidentally's supposedly based on somebody's memoir, but it's as smarmy and contrived as the worst of them.
  4. Newark Star-Ledger
    Reviewed by: Alan Sepinwall
    30
    Jenna Elfman (who plays a newspaper movie critic who gets pregnant after a one-night stand with the young guy on the left, played by Jon Foster) seemed like a loose, natural comedienne, but she's trying way too hard to sell the jokes here-possibly because she knows no one's going to buy them without a whole lot of help.

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User Score
6.3 out of 10

Generally favorable reviews- based on 90 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 26 out of 48
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 48
  3. Negative: 21 out of 48
  1. mrcritic
    10
    Hilarious is how I describe this show. It's a shame it was cancelled early, because I thought it was intelligent and hilarious. I loved it. R.I.P A.O.P… Full Review »
  2. RetaO.
    10
    This show makes me laugh like no other and I find it very heart warming.
  3. "Zippyjet"
    0
    If I could give it a negative score I'd do it in a heartbeat. Do we really need? 1. Another sitcom dealing with a yuppy in New York or California who works in the media and where money is no object? 2. Endorsing getting knocked up by a one night stand? And dropping a love child? 3. Lines that even a caveman wouldn't stoop so low as to write? 4. Vapid Characters? My answer is a big fat NO! Jenna Elfman is cute and funny and can do better and deserves better. For whatever reason CBS Monday night comdies click with the exception of that one turkey. Anyone remember "The Class?" This one is an accident that didn't wait to happen. CBS, do us all a favor and relegate this one to the land of the cancelled like Three Rivers!… Full Review »
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