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67Urie's mostly a hoot, with his inflections infectious and his comedy timing a thing of beauty. Krumholtz offers sturdy enough support, but his co-star does most of the heavy lifting.
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Sep 24, 201260The pilot shows promise, especially seeing the chemistry between (at least three of) the leads, but Episode 2 treads no new sitcom ground.
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60The show needs some tonal and content adjustments....But Urie and Krumholtz alone make this a half hour worth watching.
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58Michael Urie elevates the show out of mediocrity with his comedic power. [28 Sep 2012, p.63]
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58The tepid laughs here are already in need of a jolt, as Partners cries out for its Karen.
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50I expect more from the creators of "Will & Grace" than this lackluster comedy.
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50With its stock supporting characters (Ali and Wyatt are attractive blanks) and its lame central contrivance, this is not a great pilot, but it's far from an awful one.
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50Despite the show's constant insistence that Joe and Louis are lifelong best friends, you struggle to spot what exactly Joe and Louis see in each other.
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50It's not terrible, just standard-issue sitcom, with relationships that don't feel true and laughs that seem forced.
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50It's not a bad show, it's just a bit too familiar.
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50The show isn't necessarily bad; if only it thought with something other than its schmeckel.
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50There are some funny lines in the pilot, but it takes until the second episode for some promising chemistry to emerge between Urie and Krumholtz.
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40This comedy is full of stock jokes, stock characters and even a stock premise.
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40The stubbornly conventional scripts, the overfamiliar characters, and the old-fashioned, machine-gun comic timing undermine any possibility of freshness.
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40There's nothing wrong with playing a gay stereotype on a sitcom, except that if you're the main character, you can't be just a gay stereotype. Even an amusing one.
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30This celebration of friendship feels so sour and joyless.
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30This buddy sitcom feels contrived, derivative (instead of Megan Mullally, we get a stereotyped sassy and buxom Latina secretary) and sadly lacking in essential chemistry.
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30It isn't just the concept that's unoriginal, but also the scripting. The show has an abundance of jokes, but few elicit more than a grin.
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30I'd have expected that show, groundbreaking in 1998, would have paved the way by 2012 for a far smarter series than Partners.
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25The show around Louis is filled with a lot of creaky set-up/punchline humor, much of it based around forced double entendres.
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25The problem with Partners, as you'll discover if you watch the first two episodes, is that they already made that show years ago and it was called "Will & Grace."
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20The creators can be held responsible for enlarging the quantity of execrably written works on this theme [gay-themed sitcoms].
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20CBS programs generally display a level of basic competence that this "comedy" falls woefully short of.
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10Partners plays like an idea written on a napkin, if that, and looks like it's from another era (a long past era, if that wasn't clear).
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10Partners is witless, predictable and much closer to creepy than funny.
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0The plastic "punch lines" grow more contrived. The tired stereotypes feel more offensive.