• Network: UPN
  • Series Premiere Date: Sep 22, 2005
  • Season #: 1
Metascore
28 out of 100

Generally unfavorable - based on 17 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 17
  2. Negative: 14 out of 17
  1. Reviewed by: Diane Werts
    80
    The characters are vibrantly well-defined... And the writing is smart, with a light touch.
  2. Reviewed by: Laura Fries
    60
    An affable new sitcom.
  3. 40
    Centers on a dating consultant (Busy Philipps) who has no romantic success of her own. Could it be because the show presents her as an overbearing know-it-all?
  4. Perhaps, with all the reality TV dating shows pervading the tube, there's not much appetite left for a sitcom about a fictional dating firm. More probably, there's just not much appetite for a sitcom that isn't funny.
  5. 38
    Overagitated and overaggressive, Philipps is in constant motion; her face contorting, body twitching, voice braying. Against all odds, she has taken a show that was merely bad and made it truly unbearable.
  6. While this show isn't terrible, demonstrating spirit and energy if not belly laughs, it will need to get funnier very quickly or risk dying a quick, inglorious death.
  7. 25
    [A] trite little laugh-track factory.
  8. Reviewed by: Todd R. Ramlow
    20
    If it's trying to emulate Sex and the City, Love, Inc. misses the fact that that show presented us with complex characters from the get-go; here the single women are all pretty much one-shtick ponies.
  9. The writing on "Love, Inc." is unsparkly and sometimes labored.
  10. We wonder whether the problem isn't in the casting but the paper-thin punch lines. No, wait, we don't wonder... we know that's the problem.
  11. The laugh track is far too enthusiastic for the lame attempts at comedy on display here.
  12. "Love, Inc." is as unintentionally unfunny as "Room and Bored" -- the sitcom within a sitcom on HBO's "The Comeback" -- was meant to be bad.
  13. 10
    Each character on ''Love, Inc." is a one-joke affair.
User Score
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No user score yet- Awaiting 1 more rating

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 3
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 3
  3. Negative: 1 out of 3
  1. KyleighH
    0
    This is not a good show. I don't really get the whole concept of what is going on. This show won't make it to the fall schedule for 2006.
  2. vanessaj
    10
    This is show is really funny! Vince V. is hilarious!
  3. elenas
    10
    I love this show!