Gary Unmarried

Hollywood ReporterBarry Garron

Despite its 1980s ambiance, you can't simply dismiss the show. It has some genuinely funny lines, though it's not clear who to thank for that.

LA WeeklyRobert Abele

Gary Unmarried is pretty much business as usual, introducing us to a dude of simple pleasures.

Kansas City StarAaron Barnhart

I like Gary Unmarried. It’s like other sitcoms I’ve seen of late involving newly broken-up households (remember when the sitcom single dad was widowed instead of divorced?).

USA TodayRobert Bianco

The show is funny enough, and the performers and setup are solid enough to hope CBS will give this working-class comedy a little time to work.

Orlando SentinelHal Boedeker

Mohr is too frantic, and Marshall is too harsh, but Ed Begley Jr. delights as a goofy therapist.

New York Daily NewsDavid Hinckley

While they're entertaining together, the show needs other characters to avoid becoming just an endless exchange of the snarky things TV writers love to have exes say about each other.

Entertainment WeeklyGillian Flynn

Gary's uneven because it doesn't feel like a sitcom working for Mohr, but Mohr working for a sitcom.

Chicago Sun-TimesMisha Davenport

Mohr knows how to deliver a sarcastic one-liner, the pilot has a few laughs and the characters are all likable. But despite modern references to things like "Second Life," the whole show comes across as a bit antiquated.

New York PostLinda Stasi

On the up side, some of the one-liners are quite funny. On the downside, a lot of the show just doesn't work no matter how hard Mohr works it.

San Francisco ChronicleTim Goodman

There are funny moments here, mostly coming from Mohr's agitated rantings. But the laugh track is mighty intrusive, which detracts from the average jokes by throwing them in your face (or down your ear, as it were).

Los Angeles TimesMary McNamara

The performances, in and of themselves, range from solid (King's) to inspired (Marshall's)....But taken together, there is both too much and too little going on.

VarietyBrian Lowry

Mostly, though, Gary trades insults with his ex-wife (Paula Marshall, who really needs to stop jumping into the sack with uninspired series) and stammers toward the beautiful young woman (Jaime King) with whom he's in bed when the premiere begins. The prospects for transforming that slim premise into a satisfying show would seem less grim if those elements could survive a half-hour.

Washington PostTom Shales

There are errant laughs floating around, but for the most part Gary Unmarried is Gary Unfunny.

Philadelphia InquirerJonathan Storm

Their recently divorced characters have all the stereotypical sitcom tsuris, plus she's engaged to their marriage counselor--ho, ho--who turns out to be Ed Begley Jr., who actually is a little funny. As is Ryan Malgarini, who plays Gary's son, who at 14 is more confused about females than his dad. He's the best part of the show.

Pittsburgh Post-GazetteRob Owen

This sitcom may elicit a few laughs, but the premiere episode is pretty lackluster overall, with obvious punchlines and predictable characterizations.

PopMattersBrendon Bouzard

Not at all intelligent, the show is pretty much immune to any form of legitimate criticism, and further, it will likely be gone within the first few weeks of this television season.

Boston GlobeMatthew Gilbert

This is the kind of dull-witted, over-laugh-tracked, artificial sitcom that makes you wonder if the Hollywood honchos ever got the memo about the 21st century and all.

Chicago TribuneMaureen Ryan

Ed Begley Jr shows a light touch as the ex-couple’s counselor, and not every joke on Gary Unmarried falls flat. But this show hinges on one’s ability to ignore its misogyny and on the limited appeal of Mohr.

Miami HeraldGlenn Garvin

It's hard to enjoy characters in such dire need of a hard slapping.

Philadelphia Daily NewsEllen Gray

The writing's not there, and neither is anyone who can play at the level of "Christine's" Julia Louis-Dreyfus.

NewsdayVerne Gay

Gary is a throwback to a time when laugh tracks were provided by evidently demented studio audiences; when one-liners were stoked with double entendres about sexual functions; when sitcoms had a beat, pace and predictability so primitive that they engaged only the reptilian part of our brains. To some viewers, this may be comfort food. To others: Hell.