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- NBC
- Aug 29, 2012
- NBC
- Aug 29, 2012
Summary Single mother Goldie Clemmons (Georgia King) moves to Los Angeles with her daughter to escape her grandmother (Ellen Barkin) and becomes a surrogate for Bryan and David (Andrew Rannells and Justin Bartha.
Created By: Ali Adler, Ryan Murphy
- NBC
- Aug 29, 2012
- NBC
- Aug 29, 2012
Summary Single mother Goldie Clemmons (Georgia King) moves to Los Angeles with her daughter to escape her grandmother (Ellen Barkin) and becomes a surrogate for Bryan and David (Andrew Rannells and Justin Bartha.
Created By: Ali Adler, Ryan Murphy
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 32 Critic Reviews
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59% Positive
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31% Mixed
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9% Negative
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 32 Critic Reviews
61
59% Positive
19 Reviews
19 Reviews
31% Mixed
10 Reviews
10 Reviews
9% Negative
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
[A] witty-but-poignant look at what it means to be a modern family.
It's fast and funny. As long as Ryan continues to mix humor from the cute and the curdled sides of the aisle, this show will entertain.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 121 User Ratings
6.3
61% Positive
74 Ratings
74 Ratings
12% Mixed
15 Ratings
15 Ratings
26% Negative
32 Ratings
32 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 121 User Ratings
6.3
61% Positive
74 Ratings
74 Ratings
12% Mixed
15 Ratings
15 Ratings
26% Negative
32 Ratings
32 Ratings
It is an arch comedy with a soft heart behind its scrim of fast-paced patter.
Go beyond the in-your-face, outrageous title here, and you'll find a somewhat sweet show struggling to create some real laughs.
The New Normal needs to take a deep breath, get off the soapbox and get funny fast. The right elements--talented cast and showrunner--are already in place.
For now this show is much more normal--read: mediocre--than it seems to think it is.
Where Modern Family is sweet and funny, The New Normal is cheap and hectoring.
Wonderful show for anyone who isnt ****! This show is modern and applies to how families are becoming with the new "relationship standard". Nene Leeks adds a great addition with her quick wit along with Ellen Barkin who is wonderful and FUNNY! I look forward to this show as it is better then most other "family comedies" on Primetime.
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SEASON 1
If I had to judge this show by its first episode, I would have told you: Stay away!
It felt like they took the **** couple from "Modern Family" and made them not funny and shallow. Then they took Charlie's and Allen's mother from "Two and a half men" and made her even more terrible and racist, too.
The setup of the show is this: We have the **** couple who decide they want to have a baby.
They meet a very likable young woman with a sweet, bright daughter and her bigot, racist grandmother, played by Ellen Barkin.
Since the young mother left her husband and doesn't want to be financially dependent on her terrible grandmother, she agrees to be become the surrogate mother for the **** couple's child.
The "humor" of first episode relied almost exclusively on racist remarks by the surrogate's grandmother.
Her character is one note and the show will soon grow tedious and annoying with her at the comedic center. The rest of the cast provided almost no comedy.
But watching the second episode, I was pleasantly surprised. They gave the grandmother less screen time and only half of it consisted of racist remarks.
The surrogate mother's daughter was wonderful and funny and we got more comedic moments by friends of the **** couple, the latter being more likable and funny this time.
I laughed several times during the second episode, something I couldn't say about the first one.
So either the first episode was a misstep or they work to make the show better.
Giving the show the benefit of doubt and hoping it will improve more I'll tentatively give it a thumbs up.
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SEASON 1
It can be funny at times but mostly it is just political preaching about **** and stuff. There was even an episode about the election. This kind of stuff just should not be in a sitcom.
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SEASON 1
I hated this show and found it unwatchable. It's need to draw the characters in strokes of black and white makes it seem silly compared to the deep and interesting characters in Modern Family. If Hollywood wants us to watch this type of comedy we need better characters that don't wink at the camera for laughs.
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