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Freak Show: Season 1
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Metascore
67 out of 100

Generally favorable reviews - based on 5 Critics What's this?

User Score
6.4 out of 10

Generally favorable reviews- based on 25 Ratings

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  • Starring: Janeane Garofalo, H. Jon Benjamin, Jon Glaser
  • Summary: Mr. Show's David Cross and Home Movies' H. Jon Benjamin have joined forces to create (and star in) this limited-run animated comedy about an odd carnival freak squad that conducts low-priority missions for the Pentagon on the side.
  • Genre(s): Comedy, Animation

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 5
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 5
  3. Negative: 0 out of 5
  1. The Hollywood Reporter
    Reviewed by: Ray Richmond
    80
    Outrageous, bizarre, effortlessly hip and unsubtle in magically edgy ways.
  2. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
    Reviewed by: Rob Owen
    80
    Alternately goofy and smartly satirical, ["Freak Show"] may be the best companion to "South Park" Comedy Central has come up with yet.
  3. Boston Globe
    Reviewed by: Matthew Gilbert
    40
    "Freak Show" aspires to be both infantile and yet politically and socially astute, and it falls short on the latter. The satire doesn't quite hit its marks.

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User Reviews

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 13 out of 17
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 17
  3. Negative: 4 out of 17
  1. BobF.
    10
    Brilliant.
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  2. JohnW
    10
    Each episode has been better than the next. The 2-part season finale was easily the best and has proven itself to be one of the funniest shows on tv today.… Expand
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  3. MikeB
    3
    This is just a bad show. The animation is poor, the jokes poorer, and the characters are boring as all get-out. The old couple were the best characters in the premiere and even then they paled in comparison to South Park's dullest moments. Hopefully this show will be shorter-lived than Comedy Central's other humorless freakfest, Drawn Together, which amazingly started its third season last Thursday for reasons incomprehensible to anyone with a sense of humor.… Expand
    • 0 of 0 users said yes

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