Hot in Cleveland: Season 1
  • Network: TV LAND
  • Series Premiere Date: Jun 16, 2010
  • Season #: 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5
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Metascore
65 out of 100

Generally favorable reviews - based on 23 Critics What's this?

User Score
6.5 out of 10

Generally favorable reviews- based on 74 Ratings

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  • Summary: Melanie, Victoria, and Joy (Valerie Bertinelli, Wendy Malick, and Jane Leeves) are best friends who end up in Cleveland after their flight to Paris is grounded. They fall in love with the city and rent a house with a live-in caretaker (Betty White).
  • Genre(s): Comedy

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 16 out of 23
  2. Mixed: 6 out of 23
  3. Negative: 1 out of 23
  1. Boston Herald
    Reviewed by: Mark A. Perigard
    91
    TV Land's first original sitcom is the surprise of the summer, a sparkling, breezy comedy, in no small part due to the casting of this year's It Girl, 88-year-old Betty White as a cantankerous caretaker.
  2. Deseret News
    Reviewed by: Scott D. Pierce
    80
    Hot in Cleveland is bright, funny and witty. And, yes, it's a purely traditional sitcom, filmed in front of a studio audience, which clearly appreciates the jokes.
  3. Slate
    Reviewed by: Troy Patterson
    60
    Comfort food to its core, the show is a retro casserole tapping into a popular appetite for leftovers.
  4. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Hank Stuever
    30
    Surely White must have the willpower to decline some offers--especially after the long and appreciative bask she's recently enjoyed--and she could have let this job pass. The same cannot be quite so true for Hot in Cleveland's headliners, sitcom veterans who all give off a strong and desperate whiff of trying way too hard to be even mildly funny.
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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 21 out of 29
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 29
  3. Negative: 6 out of 29
  1. brentl
    10
    Wow just amazing show!
  2. moviemonger
    8
    Betty White, at 89, has lost a little of her comedic timing, but is still the gem of this sitcom and delivers the funniest lines each week. Wendy Malick is, well, Wendy, yet again, but works here. Valerie is, well, Valerie again, but works here. The surprise is Jane Leeves....a far cry from her Daphne fame on "Frasier". With all the character predictability, this sitcom still works...and works well. It seems the chemistry has a lot to do with that.… Expand
  3. KundK
    5
    Sitcoms like these deservedly died in the 80s, but after the decade of reality shows and cringecoms, I would categorise this show as comfort TV. If nothing else, Betty White gets the best snide lines and keeps the trio of Cleveland cougars under control.… Expand
  4. DavidN
    2
    I was expecting the worse from the TV Land ads. I was right - this show is AWFUL!! Wow, Jane Leeves, Wendy Malick, I guess the writers from "Frasier" were nowhere to be found.. TV Land airs some great, classic shows. This is definitely not one of them.… Expand

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