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Don't Trust the B---- in Apartment 23: Season 1
  • Network: ABC
  • Series Premiere Date: Apr 11, 2012
  • Season #: 1
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Metascore
71 out of 100

Generally favorable reviews - based on 29 Critics What's this?

User Score
6.5 out of 10

Generally favorable reviews- based on 39 Ratings

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  • Summary: After an embezzlement scam ends her job and a company apartment, June finds a new job at a coffee shop and finds a room with the unpredictable Chloe who is best friends with actor James Van Der Beek (playing a fictional version of himself).
  • Genre(s): Comedy

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 24 out of 29
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 29
  3. Negative: 1 out of 29
  1. Newsday
    Reviewed by: Verne Gay
    Apr 9, 2012
    83
    Raunchy and at times genuinely funny, Apartment 23 is jam-packed with promise--and inconsistencies.
  2. Wall Street Journal
    Reviewed by: Dorothy Rabinowitz
    Apr 27, 2012
    60
    It's an unpretentiously low-down sitcom about a female odd couple--morally speaking, that is--with characters sufficiently odd, plots that unfold with sufficient zest, to lure a viewer in.
  3. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Hank Stuever
    Apr 10, 2012
    30
    This trope--an actor playing a surlier, fictional version of himself--has been done to death already, and Don't Trust the B---- leans too heavily on the actor's state of celebrity limbo, filling in late-'90s jokes and references where the real laughs ought to be.

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User Reviews

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 7
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 7
  3. Negative: 0 out of 7
  1. DelLago
    9
    Okay, after four episodes of pure hilarity, I can safely say that I really really like this show. I know the actor-playing-a-stylized-version-of-himself trope has been done and overdone countless times, but James Van Der Beek is just so charming and funny that he makes it feel fresh. The writing is sharp and fresh and has a uniquely definite voice of it's own. It's smart, funny, charming, and clever and is definitely worth a watch.… Expand
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  2. martinex
    7
    I read the review in the Post prior to watching this and almost passed it by. I thought it was clever if not gut wrenchingly funny and unlike Mr. Stuever I think the show has great potential.… Expand
    • 1 of 1 users said yes
  3. thecurrentstate
    4
    Oh joy, yet another show based in New York, let's hope this one ups the ante and doesn't drive our opinions of the city into the ground. It seems to be mandatory to include a sex scene in your pilot episode and this show wastes no time as it opens with a slightly humorous romp between two characters whom have yet to be named unless of course you've choked on any promo footage prior to viewing. The roommate walks in to find her fiance being screwed (on her birthday cake) that is as we smile before the show's title screen rolls. A few more social jokes are thrown in our direction as we realize this show isn't half as bad as the title may suggest which is verified by a rather hilarious scenario that features the main character's dream job prospect going up in near literal flames, we again laugh due to our superiority in combination with suitable casting choices and witty line as we are absorbed into the show with a smooth progression as the main character initiates a hunt for a suitable roommate when upon decision your expected token asian warns her of incoming threat. Unfortunately, the quirkiness runs dry as we're presented with censored nudity, perverts from across the way and James Van Der Beek if for some reason you happened to neglect which forgotten celebrity they used to boost this shows starting appeal though our hopes are raised ten minutes into the filler when we're exposed to witnessing a seemingly innocent youth get wasted at the expense of a minor laugh as we're sent to the beginning of the episode and a small reconcile and a premature end to a lacking episode. You're still not sure what you just watched but it was enough to confuse you into the second episode we're sure.… Expand
    • 2 of 2 users said yes

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