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  • FOX
  • Aug 8, 2003
  • FOX
  • Aug 8, 2003
Luis

Summary Luis is living the American dream. He's the proud owner of a Spanish Harlem donut shop and the landlord of the building it's in. But a dream is only a dream, and you've got to wake up sometime. He wakes up every day ... to a cast of characters that includes an obnoxious elderly Irish woman who lives in a rent-controlled apartment; a Chin...

Created By: Will Gluck

  • FOX
  • Aug 8, 2003
  • FOX
  • Aug 8, 2003
Luis
Season 1
Season Premiere: Aug 8, 2003
Metascore Generally Unfavorable Based on 20 Critic Reviews
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Summary Luis is living the American dream. He's the proud owner of a Spanish Harlem donut shop and the landlord of the building it's in. But a dream is only a dream, and you've got to wake up sometime. He wakes up every day ... to a cast of characters that includes an obnoxious elderly Irish woman who lives in a rent-controlled apartment; a Chin...

Created By: Will Gluck

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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable Based on 20 Critic Reviews
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25% Mixed
5 Reviews
65% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable Based on 20 Critic Reviews
33
10% Positive
2 Reviews
25% Mixed
5 Reviews
65% Negative
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80
Aug 19, 2015
The liveliest of the year's new sitcoms. It is low, broad and abrasive, but it moves fast and has some of the urban funkiness of the old "John Larroquette Show" -- the one set in a bus station -- and was indeed created by a veteran of that series, Will Gluck.
By Robert Lloyd FULL REVIEW
50
Aug 19, 2015
Most of Luis so far is underdeveloped and oversold. [19 Sept 2003, p.B48]
By Diane Werts FULL REVIEW
40
Aug 19, 2015
Like Whoopi, Luis just barrels along on coarse writing and over-the-top performances. This obnoxious show is the salmon doughnut of sitcoms. [19 Sept 2003, p.E1]
By Hal Boedeker FULL REVIEW
30
Aug 19, 2015
A largely one-note performance that does little to hook an audience. [19 Sept 2003]
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25
Aug 19, 2015
The pilot script manages to poke fun at more ethnic groups than the average episode of "All in the Family," but without any of the wit. Most of the jokes, like most of the characters, just sit there.
By David Bianculli FULL REVIEW
10
Aug 19, 2015
Advocacy groups pushing for more Latinos on TV may hang their heads after watching Luis. Fox's laffer indeed puts a Puerto Riqueno front and center, but the show pastes together every possible cliche --- race- and sitcom-related --- at the expense of sophistication and, more seriously, the advancement of minorities on series television. Weak punchlines come fast and furious, and so do plenty of off-color jokes that take this half-hour in the wrong direction. [18 Sept 2003, p.14]
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Aug 19, 2015
It's leeringly sexual, ham-handed in its attempt to "confront" stereotypes, and just plain small-brained.
By Steve Johnson FULL REVIEW

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