• Network: Lifetime
  • Series Premiere Date: Aug 11, 2011
  • Season #: 1
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Mixed or average reviews - based on 9 Critics What's this?

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Generally unfavorable reviews- based on 7 Ratings

  • Summary: Lifetime tries its hand at a Real Housewives/Jersey Shore-esque reality show focused on the lives of young Russian-American men and women from Brooklyn's Brighton Beach neighborhood.
  • Genre(s): Drama
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 9
  2. Negative: 3 out of 9
  1. Reviewed by: David Knowles
    Aug 12, 2011
    70
    A sassy piece of voyeuristic candy that explores the Russian immigrant community of Brighton Beach, N.Y.
  2. Reviewed by: Leah Greenblatt
    Aug 11, 2011
    50
    Dolls has the acrylic stink of a low-rent reality show. Small dramas--like the twentysomething whose parents disapprove of her Spanish beau--could be interesting; instead, it all just devolves into Girls Behaving Badly.
  3. Reviewed by: Tom Gliatto
    Aug 12, 2011
    50
    It's tacky, da--or should we say duh?--but likable. [22 Aug 2011, p.45]
  4. Reviewed by: Alessandra Stanley
    Aug 11, 2011
    30
    The producers didn't have any difficulty recruiting a gaggle of vain, vulgar spendthrifts willing to hiss, preen and cry on cue for the camera.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 6
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 6
  3. Negative: 4 out of 6
  1. I like Russian dolls and people ;) So, if you like the energy of a bright sunny day which brings you joy and happiness then smoke Glamour Amber. If you want to meditate, to intensify your psychic awareness, and to increase your imagination and inspiration then smoke Glamour Lilac. http://www.cigs4girls.com/ Expand
  2. Although the show started out on an over dramatized note of self-absorption and a vain unrealistic representation of the Russian community it has become more interesting as the weeks went on. It's a bit laughable the ladies obsession with themselves is the premise here however, it is significantly more interesting and enjoyable that Jersey Shore has ever been. At the very least, there seems to be more to their lives than drinking themselves into an oblivion and making complete fools of themselves. Collapse
  3. 2
      I watched with interest the three episodes of the show, but I was very disappointed with the representation of the Russian community on the show. I came to Brooklyn when I was eight and grew up near Brighton beach. I was shocked at how the community is being represented on the show. Yes we love to party and go to banya, we take pride in how we dress and look but unlike on the show , Russian American women work hard to succeed. I wish the producers of the show would have chosen beautiful, successful Russian girls that contribute to society i.e. The Real Russian Dolls.... Just for the record calling your your mother a b.... on and off the camera is never acceptable in the Russian community. Expand
  4. 0
    I'm from Russia.And, fairly,I wanted to vomit, when I had been watching this show, because level of improbability and delirium read off scale. Russian girls in a reality not such spoiled and stupid stinkers, as shown in that show. This is a "reality-show", which continues tradition to bend representation about Russia and Russian people In USA .I would advise to you not to watch this show and to spend more time with a family and friends Expand

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