Cavemen: Season 1
  • Network: ABC
  • Series Premiere Date: Oct 2, 2007
  • Season #: 1
Metascore
19 out of 100

Overwhelming dislike - based on 13 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 0 out of 13
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 13
  3. Negative: 12 out of 13
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  1. Wall Street Journal
    Reviewed by: Dorothy Rabinowitz
    60
    It ought to be said that this strange slice of life about three male cavepersons making their way in the workaday world has its charms, even for those of us who would have preferred a sitcom peopled by that lizard.
  2. PopMatters
    Reviewed by: Marisa LaScala
    30
    Only Kroll managed to wring any comedy out of this ham-handed premise.
  3. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Adam Buckman
    25
    It became clear to me that Cavemen is extinct on arrival.
  4. USA Today
    Reviewed by: Robert Bianco
    25
    A show that was once dumb and offensive is now dumb and pointless.
  5. Detroit Free Press
    25
    The producers must have been living in a cave when they wrote this inept, misfiring social satire.
  6. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Ginia Bellafante
    20
    Cavemen, set in some version of San Diego where people speak with Southern accents, doesn’t have moments as much as microseconds suspended from any attempt at narrative.
  7. Boston Globe
    Reviewed by: Matthew Gilbert
    20
    Cavemen is pretty bad. It's definitely among the stalest pieces of bread in the loaf, which already includes 'Two and a Half Men' and 'According to Jim.' And it's certainly the most tasteless.
  8. Chicago Tribune
    Reviewed by: Maureen Ryan
    10
    It’s easy to see why preview DVDs weren’t distributed–the show just isn’t funny.
  9. Slate
    Reviewed by: Troy Patterson
    10
    Let's pretend that the plot's worth recounting.
  10. Variety
    Reviewed by: Brian Lowry
    10
    An utterly bland exercise--a slacker buddy comedy with a more elaborate makeup budget in which the protagonists happen to be cavemen.
  11. The Hollywood Reporter
    Reviewed by: Ray Richmond
    10
    What few laughs were once there [in the orginal pilot] have now been effectively removed.
  12. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Mary McNamara
    0
    A show that is no longer offensively not funny, just pointless and not funny.
  13. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
    Reviewed by: Rob Owen
    0
    Cavemen is itself an embarrassment because it's not funny. At all.

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User Score
5.1 out of 10

Mixed or average reviews- based on 127 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 44 out of 76
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 76
  3. Negative: 32 out of 76
  1. RonaldB.
    10
    This is a comment for the latest commercial Caveman vs Billy Jean King in a tennis match sponsored by Geico. Everytime I think of the commercial I laugh. A must see.… Full Review »
  2. GeraldV.
    10
    I loved this show. It was a shame it was taken off the air. I think people panned this show without even watching it, really. The characters were very likable and it made me laugh more than most sitcoms that have been on for years!… Full Review »
  3. EvelynL.s
    0
    Totally. epic. FAIL.
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