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San Jose Mercury NewsCharlie McCollum

Warm, clever, appealing and a lot of fun.

Miami HeraldGlenn Garvin

It's funny and warm and I dare you to watch it without getting your pants charmed off.

New York PostLinda Stasi

A flat-out good show.

People WeeklyTom Gliatto

The banter is warm and fast and easy, and the sisters' personality types balance out well. [17 Oct 2005, p.39]

Pittsburgh Post-GazetteRob Owen

"Related" won't be for everyone, especially viewers lacking estrogen, but it is a quality weekly "chick flick" for TV.

VarietyBrian Lowry

The WB has created the love child of "Friends" and "Sex and the City" -- no surprise considering talent from both series are behind it. While this one-hour comedy drama doesn't have that kind of instant karma, there's plenty of chemistry at work with the matriarchal Sorelli family.

New York Daily NewsDavid Hinckley

Certain plot lines and production values are irritating (especially the never-ceasing music, scored relentlessly, as if "Related" were a silent movie), but there are a few redeeming bonuses here. The supporting and guest cast is loaded with very effective performers.

The New York TimesAlessandra Stanley

"Related" is enjoyable but odd: feminism with a baby-doll face.

NewsdayDiane Werts

This isn't "Friends," after all. At its hour length, "Related" asks us to take the Sorelli saga somewhat more seriously. Yet it provides sitcom incidents that can't stand the significance test.

Entertainment WeeklyHenry Goldblatt

The series is especially disappointing considering it's one of the most pedigreed of the year. [7 Oct 2005, p.65]

Hollywood ReporterBarry Garron

At times, it seems more intent on chasing a demographic than entertaining it.

USA TodayRobert Bianco

Actually, there are some very appealing performers in Related; they just don't happen to be the stars.

Detroit Free PressMike Duffy

With its attractive cast and the Emmy Award-winning talent behind-the-scenes... "Related" should be a lot more fizzy, witty fun than it is.

San Francisco ChronicleTim Goodman

There's no doubt that "Related" will speak to some women. It will make other women break out in itchy, insanity-inducing hives.

SlateDana Stevens

Related has some strengths, particularly the understated performance of Kiele Sanchez.

Chicago TribuneSid Smith

Occasionally bright and funny, "Related" is also synthetically perky and manic.

Kansas City StarAaron Barnhart

"Related," with its overly contrived premise and tinny dialogue, compares unfavorably even to other woman-relationship shows like "Beautiful People" on ABC Family or "Gilmore Girls."

Orlando SentinelHal Boedeker

The writing and acting push so hard that the characters come off as annoying, like the fast-moving show around them.

PopMattersSamantha Bornemann

Feels strangely empty and hamstrung.... If you like your soaps without novelty, nuance, or bite, Related has four girls for you.

Chicago Sun-TimesDoug Elfman

A followup to "Sex and the City"? Not "Related." It has zero sex and a thimble of city life. What's worse, the women are even whinier and less confident than the women of "Sex" -- and the men of "Related" are more generous and real than that other show's two-dimensional pugs.

Seattle Post-IntelligencerMelanie McFarland

There comes a point at which sisterhood becomes powerfully irritating, and "Related" finds it within the first 40 minutes of its existence.

Los Angeles TimesPaul Brownfield

[The] show is creatively forced, the sisters speaking in a zeitgeist-sounding dialect over "Sex and the City's" ambient xylophone, without ever landing in the kind of zeitgeist-capturing moment that made that show a hit.

Boston GlobeMatthew Gilbert

A TV commercial for lips, hair, and clothing products.

TV GuideMatt Roush

Watching this inane New York story of four neurotically babbling sisters, each trying to outcute the other, is like swallowing vanilla lip gloss while someone's screaming in your ear.