- Summary: A young pool boy named Jimmy Chance (Lucas Neff) discovers he has a baby he has to take care of.
- Genre(s): Comedy
- Show Type: Between Seasons
- Season 1 premiere date: Sep 21, 2010
- Episode Length: 30
- Air Time: 08:00 PM
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 19 out of 23
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Mixed: 3 out of 23
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Negative: 1 out of 23
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100Raising 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.
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80As it walks a line between between mockery and compassion, Raising Hope most obviously evokes a comparison with creator Gregory Thomas Garcia's last series, My Name is Earl. In the new show, however, the players are more believable and less caricatured.
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60I'm slightly more taken with Fox's sweeter absurdedy, Raising Hope, though I still mourn the original title: "Keep Hope Alive."
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30The 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.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 20 out of 24
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Mixed: 1 out of 24
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Negative: 3 out of 24
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