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Raising Hope: Season 1
  • Network: FOX
  • Series Premiere Date: Sep 21, 2010
  • Season #: 1 , 2
Raising Hope Image
Metascore
75 out of 100

Generally favorable reviews - based on 23 Critics What's this?

User Score
7.7 out of 10

Generally favorable reviews- based on 88 Ratings

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10 out of 10
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  • Summary: A young pool boy named Jimmy Chance (Lucas Neff) discovers he has a baby he has to take care of.
  • Genre(s): Comedy

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 19 out of 23
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 23
  3. Negative: 1 out of 23
  1. Chicago Sun-Times
    Reviewed by: Paige Wiser
    100
    Raising Hope already has a little place in my heart. There's something about the downwardly mobile family unit (see: "Malcolm in the Middle," "The Middle," "Raising Arizona") that's just funnier and sweeter than anything else on TV.
  2. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Hank Stuever
    60
    I'm slightly more taken with Fox's sweeter absurdedy, Raising Hope, though I still mourn the original title: "Keep Hope Alive."
  3. The Huffington Post (formerly AOL TV)
    Reviewed by: Maureen Ryan
    30
    The tacked-on attempt to give the show some heart ("See, they're just crazy, mixed-up regular folks with good intentions!") was so disappointingly cynical and contrived. It was a transparent attempt to give depth to something that had so vociferously lacked it.

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User Reviews

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 20 out of 24
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 24
  3. Negative: 3 out of 24
  1. CritiqueGirl
    8
    Really cute. All the actors do a great job. Each dysfunctional character is entertaining. That is one cute baby and I only hope she doesn't become a screwed up child star. They are a good family that can't help but do semi-bad things and are low-life in a sweet way. I think it is pleasant, funny and sometimes laugh out loud.… Expand
    • 1 of 1 users said yes
  2. Brainstrained
    5
    Disappointing. Good cast with Dellahunt and Plimpton. And a few really, really good comedic moments almost makes watching all the crud worthwhile, but there aren't enough of those good comedic momemts. It's not that much of the humour is low-brow, nothing wrong with that, it's that there is so little humour. Lots of quirkiness, great, but much of the quirkiness here isn't funny.… Expand
    • 0 of 1 users said yes
  3. insert_here
    0
    Truly lame show. There is nothing even remotely funny about this show... unless you like stupid, make that really stupid, type of humor. Waste of a good cast.… Expand
    • 0 of 0 users said yes

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