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In the Motherhood: Season 1
  • Network: ABC
  • Series Premiere Date: Mar 26, 2009
  • Season #: 1
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Metascore
38 out of 100

Generally unfavorable - based on 21 Critics What's this?

User Score
3.9 out of 10

Generally unfavorable- based on 7 Ratings

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  • Summary: In this comedy based on a Web serial and real-life stories, Cheryl Hines, Megan Mullally, and Jessica St. Clair are mothers with very different parenting methods.
  • Genre(s): Comedy

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 21
  2. Mixed: 9 out of 21
  3. Negative: 10 out of 21
  1. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Tom Shales
    80
    Long story short: These girls are golden.
  2. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Tim Goodman
    50
    Even though In the Motherhood may have universal appeal, overly familiar premises can lead to lameness, so ABC better hope the rest of the episodes play more like the one on Thursday and less like the one a week later.
  3. Orlando Sentinel
    Reviewed by: Hal Boedeker
    30
    In the Motherhood represents ABC's feeble attempt to transform a successful Web series into a sitcom. The main problem: The three moms are mighty annoying.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 0 out of 2
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 2
  3. Negative: 2 out of 2
  1. suesanj
    1
    I have been a huge fan of the web show. This remake of the fabulous web show was horrible. I could only stand to watch half of the tv show because I felt it was a disservice to the actresses and the stories on the web show. If you have only watched the tv program, do yourself a huge favor and watch the show on line. The original actresses are hilarious unlike the tv show which seemed forced and unnatural.… Expand
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  2. [Anonymous]
    0
    Terrible show! Why is no one mentioning that it is on during prime time? Which means kids are still up! Why mention the "santa" situation during that time? What about the sex/date talk? At 7pm CST? Really? I was so excited for this show. What a huge disappointment!… Expand
    • 0 of 0 users said yes

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