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Miss/Guided
SERIES: ABC, Thursday 8:00p (30 minutes)


8.1

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Starring Judy Greer, Brooke Burns, Kristoffer Polaha, Earl Billings, and Chris Parnell

A guidance counselor returns to work at her old high school.

GENRE(S):	Comedy
CREATED BY:	Caroline Williams Gabrielle Allan
FIRST AIR DATE:	March 18, 2008

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...

Entertainment Weekly Ari Karpel

MG is wonderfully absurd and the supporting cast is satisfyingly straight-faced. [21 Mar 2008, p.53]

The New York Times Ginia Bellafante

Guided by an ambient lunacy, the show resists forced restlessness, settling in and fleshing out its characters? idiosyncrasies instead.

Newsday Diane Werts

ABC's latest single-camera comedy is utterly relatable. Even better, it's filled with the same warm yet witty, always smart and eccentric vibe as previous misfit-student faves "Square Pegs," "Popular" and "Malcolm in the Middle."

New York Post Linda Stasi

A sophomoric comedy about high school (and really aren't all high school comedies, er, sophomoric?) that supplies as many laughs as a whoopie cushion in a lecture hall.

Boston Globe Matthew Gilbert

It's a light half-hour of adults acting like teens, and teens acting like teens, that won't trick you into thinking or rethinking much of anything important.

Chicago Tribune Maureen Ryan

This new comedy, which stars the wildly talented Judy Greer, is terrific.

Los Angeles Times Mary McNamara

Yet silly and unsurprising as it seems, Miss Guided has something going for it that many predictable sitcoms do not: a uniformly talented cast.

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Rob Owen

For viewers willing to give themselves over to whimsy and let go of any expectation that they're watching characters who resemble real-life human beings, this comedy has its minor charms.

Orlando Sentinel Staff (Not Credited)

Stylish comedy boasts A-grade cast.... But the show overdoes the gimmicks, and the scheduling is misguided.

Philadelphia Daily News Ellen Gray

The comedy's broad, the characters broader--Chris Parnell plays a control freak of a vice principal, Brooke Burns the former homecoming queen from Becky's year who's just joined the faculty--but there are moments when you can see it turning into something watchable.

TV Guide Matt Roush

Miss/Guided is silly but sweet and would be more embraceable if it would drop the misguided (sorry) gimmick of having everyone deliver jokes right into the camera.

Time James Poniewozik

The comedy has all the ingredients, and Greer is perfectly cast... The problem so far is the writing. The jokes in the pilot were broader and more obviously than I'd have hoped, but the big isssue is that the writers need to find the right balance for Becky.

Washington Post John Maynard

It's easy to root for the very watchable Greer, both as the underdog and as a charming actress who deserves a better script.

Newark Star-Ledger Alan Sepinwall

There's nothing annoying about it, but there's also nothing memorable.

San Francisco Chronicle Tim Goodman

The pilot of Miss Guided suffers a bit from being too cute with a device where the actors talk into the camera for narration and expository purposes.

San Jose Mercury News Charlie McCollum

The various parts don't quite hold together, and there are too many rough patches to make Miss Guided an unqualified success. It could get better, although it has just a handful of episodes in which to make that happen.

USA Today Robert Bianco

The trouble for Becky and her show is that she really knows nothing, which vitiates what could have been an interesting concept.

Variety Brian Lowry

Beyond Greer's latter-day Mary Tyler Moore shtick, there's not a note or character that doesn't feel warmed over.

The average user rating for this tv show is 8.1 (out of 10) based on 19 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Caroline B. gave it a10:
I wasn't too sure about this show but then i found myself running to my Tivo at the end of the day to make sure it had been recorded. I love all the celeb cameos and relating to the main character. I really hope it returns because i miss it already.

JOHN M. gave it a9:
Great and much needed comedy for ABC. Very funny -great casting especially Judy Greer and Chris Parnell. Very good. suggest they move show to any night but Monday or Thursday as CBS has Monday locked up for sitcom fans and NBC does the same on Thursdays.

Sam S. gave it an8:
Silly and funny and really brings back memories of high school. Everyone in high school was either an outcast, or felt like an outcast, or knew someone who was an outcast. The best part is that Greer keeps smiling despite anything embarassing that happens to her. (Remember the column, "Was My Face Red" from Young Miss magazine?) It's good to have a friend who is always upbeat, no matter what, especially for those of us who are perpetual complainers.

LOUIS P. gave it a6:
Based on the episode I watched tonight, Judy Greer is terrific in the lead but the show needs to be filled out in the laugh department and the side characters are not well defined. With the NBC Thursday night comedy line-up returning, I would like to stick-it-out but that will be impossible.

Jenny M. gave it a9:
I love this show! So funny.

Tom gave it a4:
There has got to be something seriously wrong with me. 'generally favorable reviews'? I love Greer and usually find her very funny but.....well I don't usually post negative reviews but.......sorry.

Michael L. gave it an8:
Judy Greer carries this show with style. She's adorable and very, very funny. So is the show. She's the guidance counselor at her old high school, but she's still the same geeky kid she always was. Think Ally McBeal crossed with Liz Lemon and you've got the idea. She's sweet and clumsy and gives everything her all. It's got a great cast and a strong central idea. And Greer. Greer makes it.

Miss/Guided SERIES: ABC, Thursday 8:00p (30 minutes)

Miss/Guided
SERIES: ABC, Thursday 8:00p (30 minutes)