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Mixed or average reviews - based on 11 Critics What's this?

  • Summary: Josh (Chris Gethard) returns to his hometown of Big Lake, Pennsylvania, after losing his bank job in this Adam McKay/Will Ferrell-produced comedy, which also stars Saturday Night Live's Chris Parnell and Horatio Sanz.
  • Genre(s): Comedy
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 11
  2. Negative: 5 out of 11
  1. 75
    Oh, no--can it really be an other sitcom about a grown son moving back home after failing big time in the big city? Yes. But not, "oh, no."
  2. Their [Gethard and Parnell] interplay, once things get moving, is appealing, if not quite compelling, but what sold me on the pilot was the moment when 14-year-old Dylan Blue, as Gethard's beyond-the-law kid brother, revealed his dark side, and his gun; I was a little frightened.
  3. Broadly limned, Big Lake works neither as a satire--and it stops trying after the delivery of Josh's back story--nor as an adventure in surrealist comedy, and it is tough to watch the strain for eccentricity.

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