• Network: FOX
  • Series Premiere Date: Mar 1, 2006
  • Season #: 1
User Score
6.1 out of 10

Generally favorable reviews- based on 57 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 35 out of 57
  2. Negative: 21 out of 57

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  1. TCoogan
    Mar 2, 2006
    9
    a unique show, lots of promise!
  2. JeffK
    Mar 3, 2006
    9
    Great premier......Nate shows promise as the star of the show. The concept of the show is difficult (Improv) but they pulled it off. Great work.
  3. JohnnyL
    Apr 20, 2006
    10
    I thought this was one of the best shows on television today. The comedy is great and it's not too much. The acting is great for unheard of actors and it isn't one of those far fetched tv shows that wouldn't happen in a million years. I'm a college student, so that makes this show even more entertaining to me. I really hope they don't take it off the air.
  4. DomB.
    May 3, 2006
    9
    I would like to know what these guys who are giving the show a zero rating think is funny. I didn't know the requirment for watching this show was that you have to have no sense of humor. Just because Will and Grace is almost over doesn't mean you guys have to take out your rage on Free Ride! Seriously this show has a lot of good qualities and if nothing else you have to think the parents on the show are funny. Fox better keep this show on the air. Expand
  5. DonD
    Jun 8, 2006
    10
    This sow was fantastic. I can't believe it is gone. No justice.
  6. BenJ
    Mar 6, 2006
    10
    This is a wickedly amusing and fantastically hilarious show.
  7. abbib
    Mar 9, 2006
    10
    Witty and fun. Loved the show and thought it was funny. Not rolling on the floor funny but it has its cute moments. I think it is exactly what it is like comming home from college to live with your parents again.
  8. CousinS
    Apr 17, 2006
    10
    Free Ride is an absolutey hilarious show!! I love the characters and I think that they have perfect chemistry between each other and really make the show #1 on my list.
  9. Shane
    Apr 23, 2006
    10
    Funny as hell.
  10. AmandaH
    May 1, 2006
    10
    Really funny show!
  11. DanielC
    Jun 19, 2006
    10
    Loved Free Ride. It was placed opposite killer competition and never got an audience. I loved the cast, and it preseted a true situation (as in 'situation comedy') in Nate's returning home to parents who have moved on from parenthood, falling in love with his engaged high school sweetheart, and befriending Dove (a very funny character). I watched every episode. It was so much funnier than most other sitcoms. Expand
  12. JoeV
    Oct 16, 2006
    10
    Absolute Corker, bring it back please!!!
  13. ChristianD
    Oct 17, 2006
    10
    love it
  14. JoanieM
    Mar 13, 2006
    9
    I thought it was great. I liked that they talked like real people - on top of each other.I LOVE Josh Dean - he is georgeous and funny.
  15. sophiek
    Mar 2, 2006
    9
    i loved last night...
  16. curtisk
    Apr 24, 2006
    10
    This show is very funny. I love it. Its my favorite show on t.v. right now.
  17. CarolynP
    May 23, 2006
    10
    I suppose it was important for Fox to cancel Free Ride to make more room for mindless crap like American Idol and Skating with Celebrities. I hate this network.
  18. KellyS
    May 9, 2006
    10
    Where is my favorite show? Has it been cancelled?! Fox better bring it back or it'll be missing out on another great show opportunity!
  19. DaveG
    Nov 7, 2006
    9
    The charaterisation in this this show was unbeliveliable. With its quickly delivered lines and highly casmatic cast I cant understand why it was taken off the air?
  20. AustinJ
    Apr 16, 2006
    10
    Whoever voted this a 4.5 is a moron. I wouldn't necissarily rate it a ten, however since some people have rated it so low I have to help raise it. This show is amazing. It is alot like what happens when you graduate college.
  21. dougr
    Jun 19, 2006
    10
    this is one of the best shows on tv
  22. JulesB.
    Sep 16, 2007
    10
    This was a funny show. I wish you would bring it back. Parents who have kids going off to college or graduating from college and coming home again LOVED this SHOW!! I hope it goes to DVD. Nate, his parents and Nate's best friend were hilarious!!!!
Metascore

Mixed or average reviews - based on 26 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 26
  2. Negative: 8 out of 26
  1. Reviewed by: Brian Lowry
    60
    There's a breezy charm to the show.
  2. "Free Ride" is crude, mean-spirited, and not nearly as fresh and innovative as the producers think it is.
  3. More of an amusing diversion than a laugh riot.