Love, Inc.

NewsdayDiane Werts

The characters are vibrantly well-defined... And the writing is smart, with a light touch.

VarietyLaura Fries

An affable new sitcom.

Orlando SentinelHal Boedeker

Centers on a dating consultant (Busy Philipps) who has no romantic success of her own. Could it be because the show presents her as an overbearing know-it-all?

USA TodayRobert Bianco

Overagitated and overaggressive, Philipps is in constant motion; her face contorting, body twitching, voice braying. Against all odds, she has taken a show that was merely bad and made it truly unbearable.

New York Daily NewsDavid Hinckley

Perhaps, with all the reality TV dating shows pervading the tube, there's not much appetite left for a sitcom about a fictional dating firm. More probably, there's just not much appetite for a sitcom that isn't funny.

Hollywood ReporterRay Richmond

While this show isn't terrible, demonstrating spirit and energy if not belly laughs, it will need to get funnier very quickly or risk dying a quick, inglorious death.

Chicago Sun-TimesDoug Elfman

Negligible.

Detroit Free PressMike Duffy

[A] trite little laugh-track factory.

Miami HeraldGlenn Garvin

Humdrum.

Seattle Post-IntelligencerMelanie McFarland

We wonder whether the problem isn't in the casting but the paper-thin punch lines. No, wait, we don't wonder... we know that's the problem.

The New York TimesVirginia Heffernan

The writing on "Love, Inc." is unsparkly and sometimes labored.

Pittsburgh Post-GazetteRob Owen

The laugh track is far too enthusiastic for the lame attempts at comedy on display here.

PopMattersTodd R. Ramlow

If it's trying to emulate Sex and the City, Love, Inc. misses the fact that that show presented us with complex characters from the get-go; here the single women are all pretty much one-shtick ponies.

San Francisco ChronicleTim Goodman

Woefully bad.

Los Angeles TimesPaul Brownfield

"Love, Inc." is as unintentionally unfunny as "Room and Bored" -- the sitcom within a sitcom on HBO's "The Comeback" -- was meant to be bad.

Boston GlobeMatthew Gilbert

Each character on ''Love, Inc." is a one-joke affair.

Chicago TribuneMaureen Ryan

A grating comedy.