American Gypsies: Season 1
Metascore
56 out of 100

Mixed or average reviews - based on 6 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 6
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 6
  3. Negative: 1 out of 6
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  1. Newsday
    Reviewed by: Diane Werts
    Jul 17, 2012
    91
    Strong personalities evoke the hold of the old, the tug of the new, and that intersection's human fireworks.
  2. Philadelphia Daily News
    Reviewed by: Ellen Gray
    Jul 17, 2012
    70
    Where American Gypsies shines--and it really does shine here and there--is in the glimpses we get of the internal system of justice that's developed among a people who don't trust government, and family rituals like the "red-dress ceremony" with which the Johns family welcomes its newest member.
  3. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Linda Stasi
    Jul 17, 2012
    63
    Not that this family of five adult sons, along with matriarch, Tina, and patriarch, Bobby Sr., aren't fascinating. They are. I just don't know if I want to live with them and all their unnecessary drama.
  4. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Tanner Stransky
    Jul 17, 2012
    58
    Gypsies is just mildly entertaining, mostly because the family drama seems staged.
  5. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Robert Lloyd
    Jul 17, 2012
    40
    The producers are so focused on creating and highlighting conflict that after a while, as with the boy who cried wolf, you would just like everyone to shut up and be eaten.
  6. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Neil Genzlinger
    Jul 17, 2012
    30
    American Gypsies, the second deplorable show about this subculture to come along in three months.

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User Score
3.6 out of 10

Generally unfavorable reviews- based on 7 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 3
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 3
  3. Negative: 1 out of 3
  1. eeyore
    0
    It's such a shame about National Geographic brand... the disgusting "National Geographic" TV channel completely destroyed the once quality and respect evoking National Geographic brand. American Gypsies is just another typical show targeted at the lowest common denominator. Never again will I look at the National Geographic magazine the same way I used to... I hope that licensing the repulsively idiotic National Geographic TV channel was worth the monies to the executives of the once respected National Geographic brand.… Full Review »
  2. landing
    10
    Great entertainment. Don't take it to serious. it is exactly what it is meant to be, fun to watch.

    Hope there is a season two., Lots of     family drama and oh so many schemes. Nothing like a little family fighting to relate to, I believe some ok ok not much, is a real insight into american gypsies… Full Review »
  3. Robert1212
    10
    A fascinating view into a sub culture i knew nothing about. Plays out like the Sopranos with a touch of Jersey Shore, but with Gypsies. Unlike anything I've seen on TV.… Full Review »
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