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Unhitched
SERIES: Fox, Sunday 9:30p (30 minutes)

Unhitched
Critic Score
Metascore: 44 Metascore out of 100
User Score  
5.0 out of 10
based on 18 reviews
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Starring Craig Bierko, Rashida Jones, Johnny Sneed, and Shaun Majumder

The Farrelly brothers' produced comedy about a group of single-again 30-somethings in Boston.

GENRE(S): Comedy
CREATED BY: Mike Bernier
Chris Pappas
FIRST AIR DATE: March 2, 2008

Originally titled The Rules of Starting Over.


What The Critics Said

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80
Hollywood Reporter Barry Garron
A standout comedy with a lousy title.
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75
San Francisco Chronicle Tim Goodman
What works so well in the series is that the four friends are so distinctly different, and the writers are able to adjust the level of humor to each.
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70
Miami Herald Glenn Garvin
The relatively no-name cast (which includes Craig Bierko as a recently dumped financial planner, Rashida Jones as a divorce lawyer better at managing breakups than relationships, and Johnny Sneed as a three-time-loser party boy) is excellent, and the goofball writing hilarious.... But this is buyer-beware territory, with something to offend practically everybody whose age or IQ exceeds 16.
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70
Orlando Sentinel Hal Boedeker
Unhitched is not frantic. The actors, led by laid-back Bierko, give appealing performances. If you don't mind a knockoff of Seinfeld, Unhitched could be for you.
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63
New York Post Adam Buckman
Some of it is quite funny and so are the situations in which these four characters find themselves.
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50
Chicago Sun-Times Misha Davenport
While Unhitched certainly contains its share of gross-out moments, these moments all feel so hopelessly forced and happen to characters we care so little about that they don't carry the comedic weight they should.
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50
LA Weekly Robert Abele
Even when Unhitched isn't funny--and the second episode is definitely an improvement on the pilot, which tries too hard--it at least isn't vile.
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40
Los Angeles Times Robert Lloyd
All in all, it is pretty thin and flat; there are jokes that work, and the cast is able, but not in the service of anything substantial.
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40
Boston Globe Matthew Gilbert
The show doesn't ever really develop a comic center, or a heart. It's just a bunch of pointless monkey business.
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38
New York Daily News David Hinckley
Let's say Unhitched just isn't very funny.
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30
Variety Brian Lowry
The show feels completely derivative, it's wholly unconvincing that the central quartet would hang out together, and I'm frankly still fuzzy (mostly because after 10 minutes it's difficult to give a damn) on what connects them beyond the not-that-jarring status of being single again in their 30s and, well, "Seinfeld" did it.
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30
Washington Post Tom Shales
There's not "a lot" of heart in the unhilarious Unhitched--in fact, barely any.
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30
Chicago Tribune Maureen Ryan
Most of its jokes and plots feel flat and predictable and it?s hard to get invested in a comedy that relies on the fact that its only minority character, a doctor of Indian descent, can?t get certain American slang terms right. Har har.
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30
The New York Times Ginia Bellafante
Unhitched expends a wrestler?s energy aiming to offend and provoke, but no amount of outrageousness can mask its conformity.
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30
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Rob Owen
In a way, Unhitched reminds me of "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" in its attempts to shock, but this new series feels more manufactured and far less likely to become a cult hit.
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25
USA Today Robert Bianco
The actors do their best, but most of what they're doing is hopelessly, witlessly predictable.
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20
Philadelphia Inquirer Jonathan Storm
The Farrellys finish in second place [of having the dumbest show this Sunday], directing a sitcom, Unhitched (Sunday 9:30 p.m., Fox 29), about four clowns who struggle stupidly with their newly single status.
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10
Newark Star-Ledger Alan Sepinwall
The issue I have with the rape-by-orangutan scene in Unhitched is that it's not funny, nor does it even seem to be trying to be funny. It's lazy comedy, substituting shock value for wit and invention, and it typifies everything that follows on this lame excuse for a sitcom.
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What Our Users Said

Vote Now!The average user rating for this tv show is 5.0 (out of 10) based on 16 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Raysa J. gave it a1:
Falls flat and then gets annoying.

A. M. gave it a0:
Horribly unfunny and stupid. This is the kind of show that is destroying America and the world at large. The actors, writing, and direction all suck beyond belief.

A T gave it a7:
This one went in and out for me. I liked some pieces, others, not so much. The stereo-typical Indian guy was the only one that really annoyed me. Everyone else I believed and enjoyed to a certain degree. And I loved that it was in Boston!

Rob W. gave it an8:
Goofball comedy that seems to exist only to provide laughs. That is not a bad thing. No deep messages, just a sense of ribald fun. Let's hope the writers can keep it going.

Henry P. gave it a10:
Hilarious! great writing.

Rock F. gave it a2:
Another huge misfire from the Farrelly Brothers. It's hard to believe that these are the same guys who created "Dumb & Dumber," "Kingpin," and "There's Something About Mary." The gross-out humor is forced and there was no chemistry among the leads. I give this a "2" only because Rashida Jones is such a cutie.

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