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Last Man Standing (2011): Season 1
  • Network: ABC
  • Series Premiere Date: Oct 11, 2011
  • Season #: 1
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Metascore
33 out of 100

Generally unfavorable - based on 24 Critics What's this?

User Score
5.0 out of 10

Mixed or average reviews- based on 37 Ratings

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10 out of 10
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  • Summary: Tim Allen returns to network television as Max Baxter, who feels outnumbered by his wife and three daughters.
  • Genre(s): Comedy

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 24
  2. Mixed: 7 out of 24
  3. Negative: 16 out of 24
  1. USA Today
    Reviewed by: Robert Bianco
    Oct 11, 2011
    63
    It's all standard stuff, but outside of the tiresome, heard-it-all-before rants, it's not without its appeal.
  2. PopMatters
    Reviewed by: Michelle Welch
    Oct 13, 2011
    60
    While it returns Allen to a Mr. Fix-it style of parenting and some broad he-man comedy, the show offers fewer grunts and more shrieking female voices.
  3. People Weekly
    Reviewed by: Tom Gliatto
    Oct 7, 2011
    38
    Allen and Travis, who are both better than you r average comic actor, seem aware that they're trapped in a particular cookie-cutter sitcom hell, forced to laugh their way through stale gags about kids while other new TV comedies explore family life with clever, contemporary touches. [17 Oct 2011, p.39]
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User Reviews

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 11 out of 16
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 16
  3. Negative: 4 out of 16
  1. ccrogers15
    10
    this is the best thing to happen to tv since 1992. Thats right.. when home improvement started. I miss home improvement and it was a great show with a great cast. I love this show, but small issue is nancy travis, she is not a good mother figure for this. And it makes a feel weird seing tim with nancy on here and not jill. It makes me feel he left her since 1999 and stuff and not seing wilson over the fence and tool time. I miss home improvement.… Expand
    • 2 of 2 users said yes
  2. SwarleyStinson
    4
    It started out quite good but once it got going the family just got boring. There are a few jokes per episode that are funny but most of them fall flat. It kinda feels like an American version of 'My Family' but worse.… Expand
    • 1 of 3 users said yes
  3. canukguy
    2
    why in this day and age are you makeing the man a idiot,he must be really rich.a young girl can buy 500$ in clothes and he is good with this.once again the man say's no an the wife correct's him.it's called repetition.why can't he win .?wrong messege and not even close to real life.you have no ideas of the real impact you are doing.this show will not last.we are tired of rich.he works at a 16$ hr job unless bass pro shoppe pays more than me.crap and sad.this will not last.… Expand
    • 1 of 5 users said yes

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