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  • 2009
  • TV-14
  • CBS
  • 2009
  • TV-14
  • CBS

Summary A San Francisco newspaper film critic becomes pregnant after a hookup with a much younger man and together they raise a non-traditional family. Golden Globe Award winner Jenna Elfman (Dharma & Greg) plays Billie, who after a hard breakup with her boss, James (Melrose Place's Grant Show) then gets knocked up by Zack (Windfall's Jon Foster...

  • 2009
  • TV-14
  • CBS
  • 2009
  • TV-14
  • CBS

Accidentally on Purpose

Season 1 Premiere: 2009
Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 18 Critic Reviews
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User Score Mixed or Average Based on 10 User Ratings
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Summary A San Francisco newspaper film critic becomes pregnant after a hookup with a much younger man and together they raise a non-traditional family. Golden Globe Award winner Jenna Elfman (Dharma & Greg) plays Billie, who after a hard breakup with her boss, James (Melrose Place's Grant Show) then gets knocked up by Zack (Windfall's Jon Foster...

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 18 Critic Reviews
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17% Positive
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61% Mixed
11 Reviews
22% Negative
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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 18 Critic Reviews
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17% Positive
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61% Mixed
11 Reviews
22% Negative
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75
Suspend all disbelief, pretend the really, really offensive laugh track doesn't exist, disregard the giant slabs of ham offered up by Jensen and Parham, and enjoy the chemistry between Elfman and Foster.
By Linda Stasi FULL REVIEW
60
Everything in the pilot, written by executive producer Claudia Lonow, is a hair or three too strenuous; Billie has been knocked down to a few easy-to-grasp impulses, and almost all the other roles are filled by stereotypes--Jensen's most wastefully--in stereotypical relationships. Nevertheless, the premise is full of interesting possibilities about love and age and unconventional parenting.
By Robert Lloyd FULL REVIEW
50
Accidentally on Purpose, with its matching sets of friends for Billie and Zack, its bland jokes, its lack of any sort of topicality, its Jenna Elfman, feels as if it could have been on any time in the last two decades.
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50
The stereotypes in play on Accidentally on Purpose are flat, if harmless, from the get-go.
By Matthew Gilbert FULL REVIEW
50
Accidentally on Purpose doesn't have the smarts to be the salvation of a genre, but neither does it look like the torpedo to sink the ship. Not great, but nothing heinous.
By Tom Shales FULL REVIEW
38
The show has similarities with the movie "Knocked Up," but is missing its most important ingredient: humor.
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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.
By Glenn Garvin FULL REVIEW

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5.1
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50% Mixed
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20% Negative
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Production Company:
  • BermanBraun
  • CBS Productions
Initial Release Date: 2009
Number of seasons: 1 Season
Rating: TV-14
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