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Modern Men: Season 1
  • Network: WB
  • Series Premiere Date: Mar 17, 2006
  • Season #: 1
Metascore
23 out of 100

Generally unfavorable - based on 18 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 18
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 18
  3. Negative: 13 out of 18
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  1. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Alessandra Stanley
    70
    "Modern Men" is funny, but it is actually all about role reversal, depicting an imaginary world in which young men are as deeply concerned about their love lives and future spouses as women are.
  2. Detroit Free Press
    Reviewed by: Mike Duffy
    50
    "Modern Men" feels anything but, well, modern. But in its own goofy, good-natured retro way, this old-school comedy... generates some lighthearted, if predictable grins.
  3. Newsday
    Reviewed by: Verne Gay
    50
    While "Men" may have the nutritional equivalent of stick gum, there's some genuine charm here along with a surprisingly seasoned and talented cast.
  4. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Paul Brownfield
    40
    The problem with "Modern Men" is that the scenes between the guys and the life coach don't play.
  5. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Chip Crews
    40
    A show like this... doesn't ask a lot of its audience, or of itself. In that context, give the three leads credit: They display flashes of skill and even subtlety in depicting their one-dimensional characters.
  6. PopMatters
    Reviewed by: Todd R. Ramlow
    30
    These stereotypes (the befuddled one, the needy one, the sexist pig) hardly make for the most engaging cast of characters.
  7. USA Today
    Reviewed by: Robert Bianco
    25
    This is yet another terrible WB sitcom that never should have been made.
  8. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Paul Katz
    25
    [Bruckheimer's] latest dud. [17 Mar 2006, p.109]
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  9. Chicago Sun-Times
    Reviewed by: Doug Elfman
    12
    Bad sitcom, bad.
  10. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: David Hinckley
    12
    "Modern Men" is a waste of money, time and only an elder generation of talent.
  11. Chicago Tribune
    10
    The show suffers from a surfeit of cliched sex jokes and morning-after doldrums.
  12. Miami Herald
    Reviewed by: Glenn Garvin
    10
    A live-action version of Beavis & Butthead, except with a cast that's considerably less life-like, Modern Men is from the Guys Are Loathsome Pigs And Chicks Must Civilize Them genre that produced Men Behaving Badly, Champs and a bunch of other unwatched and unremembered shows, of which this will soon be one.
  13. Philadelphia Inquirer
    Reviewed by: Jonathan Storm
    10
    One of the most flat-footed sitcoms of the year.
  14. Variety
    Reviewed by: Brian Lowry
    10
    "Modern Men" actually leaves you hoping [Bruckheimer] will revert to bigscreen form and blow something up.
  15. Boston Globe
    Reviewed by: Matthew Gilbert
    10
    It is so mediocre it's almost fascinating to behold, ''almost" being the operative word.
  16. The Hollywood Reporter
    Reviewed by: Barry Garron
    10
    This formulaic, hard-to-swallow concoction of glib writing and off-putting characters neither enhances the credits of its cast nor the reputation of Jerry Bruckheimer when it comes to TV comedy.
  17. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
    Reviewed by: Rob Owen
    10
    A crummy comedy.
  18. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Tim Goodman
    0
    It's stupid and annoying and a retread of countless other stupid and annoying, totally unoriginal WB sitcoms.
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