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La La Land: Season 1
  • Network: Showtime
  • Series Premiere Date: Jan 25, 2010
  • Season #: 1
Metascore
60 out of 100

Mixed or average reviews - based on 8 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 8
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 8
  3. Negative: 2 out of 8
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  1. Salon
    Reviewed by: Heather Havrilesky
    80
    Wootton dips as far into darkness as even Baron Cohen, but instead of merely relying on cursing and butt thongs to create comic gold, Wootton crafts a well-thought-out narrative and puts a few props in place before he meets his real-life characters.
  2. Entertainment Weekly
    75
    While Wootton's alter egos--a criminally inept (emphasis on criminal) psychic, a struggling actor, and a scruffy documentarian wannabe, all new to Los Angeles--have hilarious moments, they don't show any layers beyond idiocy.
  3. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Mike Hale
    70
    While he doesn't often inspire the helpless laughter that "Borat" or "Da Ali G Show" provoke, his quieter, more slowly building situations can have their own devastating payoffs.
  4. Boston Globe
    Reviewed by: Matthew Gilbert
    70
    A week between each episode is highly recommended. But in small doses, his shamelessness, persistence, and humor are remarkable.
  5. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Robert Lloyd
    60
    Wootton is a quick-minded, thematically consistent improviser who thoroughly knows his characters, and obviously something of a daredevil: You can get hurt doing this stuff, or arrested. But as in Baron Cohen's comedies, the cleverness of the star is too much the point.
  6. Wall Street Journal
    Reviewed by: Nancy DeWolf Smith
    60
    Showtime's new comedy series la la land can be torture to watch, whether you end up choking with laughter or cringing at the sight of well-meaning folks being made fools of.
  7. Variety
    Reviewed by: Brian Lowry
    30
    While Wootton's irreverent antics are sporadically funny enough to win him a cult following, the memorable moments ultimately prove too few and far between.
  8. PopMatters
    Reviewed by: Daynah Burnett
    20
    Fittingly--and disappointingly--his fame-hungry characters don't raise questions concerning politics or inhabit any realm of social interest; they are as vapid as their environment.
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