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Courting Alex

Summary Alex Rose (Jenna Elfman) is a successful, single attorney who works with her father Bill (Dabney Coleman) at his law firm. Alex struggles with dating as she looks for love in the big city. Her father would love for her to settle down with her coworker Stephen, who is a star lawyer at the firm and is smitten with her. Alex relies on th...

  • 2006
  • CBS
  • 2006
  • CBS

Courting Alex

Season 1 Premiere: 2006
Metascore Generally Unfavorable Based on 19 Critic Reviews
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Summary Alex Rose (Jenna Elfman) is a successful, single attorney who works with her father Bill (Dabney Coleman) at his law firm. Alex struggles with dating as she looks for love in the big city. Her father would love for her to settle down with her coworker Stephen, who is a star lawyer at the firm and is smitten with her. Alex relies on th...

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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable Based on 19 Critic Reviews
39
5% Positive
1 Review
47% Mixed
9 Reviews
47% Negative
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Generally Unfavorable Based on 19 Critic Reviews
39
5% Positive
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47% Mixed
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47% Negative
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70
Elfman establishes herself as one of the major female comic presences on television.
By Glenn Garvin FULL REVIEW
50
Neither a disaster nor a triumph.
By Robert Lloyd FULL REVIEW
50
The cast is a fine one. The chemistry works between Elfman and Randall. The weakness of "Alex's" premiere -- and not future episodes, I hope -- is the overwrought script.
By Doug Elfman FULL REVIEW
40
Jenna Elfman really has to put a bag over it--her notorious “cute,” I mean.
By John Leonard FULL REVIEW
30
A charmless sitcom with absolutely nothing original in it.
By Matthew Gilbert FULL REVIEW
20
Unimpressive and bland.
By Sid Smith FULL REVIEW
20
Elfman and Coleman do their best to inject some fun into the same old stuff.
By Jonathan Storm FULL REVIEW

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Production Company:
  • Paramount Network Television
  • Touchstone Television
Initial Release Date: 2006
Number of seasons: 1 Season
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