There Goes the Neighborhood: Season 1
  • Network: CBS
  • Series Premiere Date: Aug 9, 2009
  • Season #: 1
Metascore
32 out of 100

Generally unfavorable reviews - based on 4 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 0 out of 4
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 4
  3. Negative: 3 out of 4
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  1. The Hollywood Reporter
    Reviewed by: Gregg Kilday
    40
    There's not enough time for the strategizing, scheming and emotional breakdowns that make the three-times-per-week "Big Brother" a guilty pleasure.
  2. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Mary McNamara
    30
    It is such an utterly cynical experiment, troublesome on so many levels (there are children involved, watching adults cry because their friends have "banished" them) and no matter how often people say "it's just a game," even without a big chunk of change on the line, family competitions are rarely bloodless.
  3. Variety
    Reviewed by: Brian Lowry
    30
    Just think of There Goes the Neighborhood as another brick in the (reality-competition) wall--one that's frankly becoming a bit of an eyesore.
  4. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Linda Stasi
    25
    CBS' new social-experiment-on-a-budget-series, is one of those occasionally interesting summer replacement series that proves once more that "real" people will do anything to get on TV.

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User Score
2.8 out of 10

Generally unfavorable reviews- based on 10 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 5
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 5
  3. Negative: 4 out of 5
  1. CP
    6
    The best season of the best TV show ever.
  2. MarkE
    0
    This has to be the worst idea EVER for a game. CBS took friends and families and bet their futures together as friends and families for crappy ratings. I am very disappointed in the show and think that they should wake up and fire the guy that gave them the idea for this crappy show.… Full Review »
  3. GlendaS.
    0
    I think it is cruel to put a game on like this where the neighbors gets mad at each other and don't put anything like this on again becfause it is offensive to me and I would never play a game like this.… Full Review »
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