Fuller House
Netflix | Release Date: February 27, 2016
CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
35
METASCORE
Generally unfavorable reviews based on 28 Critic Reviews
Positive:
3
Mixed:
10
Negative:
15
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
83
NewsdayVerne GayFeb 16, 2016
Season 1 Review: Think of Fuller House as “Full House 2.0.” Same premise, same vibe, mostly same cast.... A winner, strictly for fans. Read full review
70
Los Angeles TimesRobert LloydFeb 25, 2016
Season 1 Review: As revivals go it is more than usually successful and true to the spirit of its predecessor. Read full review
67
TVLineAndy SwiftApr 6, 2016
Season 1 Review: There are a few consistent bright spots, including party-girl Stephanie’s interactions with DJ’s annoying (sorry!) kids; the original series’ now-twentysomething fans will likely identify with her more than any other character. Read full review
58
Uncle BarkyEd BarkFeb 24, 2016
Season 1 Review: Fuller House isn’t going to win any awards for being exactly what its predecessor was--an utterly formulaic sitcom that ranked among prime-time’s 20 most popular series in four of its eight seasons. But seriously, it’s a surprise to see how well the grown-up Bure, Sweetin and Barber work together in the service of a show that employed them as kids, cast them off and now is welcoming them back instead of re-casting. Read full review
58
Boston HeraldMark A. PerigardFeb 24, 2016
Season 1 Review: Netflix’s sequel series Fuller House is a triumph of canny calculation over creativity. The extended 40-minute premiere is the best fan-service of any reboot ever. Read full review
50
New York PostAndrea MorabitoFeb 26, 2016
Season 1 Review: It turns out you can go home again--there’s just nothing new to see. Read full review
50
Yahoo TVKen TuckerFeb 25, 2016
Season 1 Review: No one is ever going to say Fuller House is great TV, but as a nostalgia item, it will probably amuse its original, now grown, audience for an episode or two. Read full review
50
Los Angeles Daily NewsRob LowmanFeb 24, 2016
Season 1 Review: Appreciating Fuller House will depend a lot on how much you enjoyed the original, which ran eight seasons on ABC. The new show displays enough of its own personality to be a bit more than simply nostalgia. By the third episode--on which singer Macy Gray guests--it even starts to develop some loopy fun with a dance-off at a local club. Read full review
50
Sioux City JournalBruce MillerFeb 22, 2016
Season 1 Review: Fuller House is like a grilled cheese sandwich served with a cup of tomato soup. It’s not exactly amazing, but it’s certainly comforting. Read full review
40
Vox.comEmily VanDerWerffFeb 29, 2016
Season 1 Review: It feels like just leaving the TV on as rerun after rerun piles up. The laugh lines are predictable. The gags play out exactly as you'd expect. Read full review
40
Pittsburgh Post-GazetteRob OwenFeb 26, 2016
Season 1 Review: The first episode does a nice enough job juxtaposing scenes from the original with parallel scenes in the present, but enjoying Fuller House will require a high tolerance for laugh tracks and corny sitcom humor. Read full review
40
We Got This CoveredMitchel BroussardFeb 18, 2016
Season 1 Review: Besides exactly one scene in episode six between Sweetin and Cameron Bure, Fuller House also never hits its predecessor’s sweet spot between cloying sentiment, silly fun, and the set-a-timer inevitability of its structure. It feels like a forgery more than a new creation, with tiny details slipping through the cracks. Read full review
40
VarietyMaureen RyanFeb 16, 2016
Season 1 Review: There is a nimbleness and familiarity to the way that Cameron-Bure, Sweetin and other members of the original cast work together, and there is absolutely nothing wrong with a show that celebrates the loyalty and solidarity that a family can share.... But Fuller House continually goes to the well of having cute kids mug for the camera as they practically yell their lines, and just a little of its self-congratulatory, blaring obviousness goes a long way. Read full review
30
TimeDaniel D'AddarioFeb 26, 2016
Season 1 Review: Fuller House has nothing more to offer than a look at what an old show’s actors and format look like in the present day. It’s an utter failure of ambition in exactly the same way as was Fox’s recent X-Files reboot. Read full review
30
The New York TimesJames PoniewozikFeb 26, 2016
Season 1 Review: Fuller House begins as a sitcom family reunion. It becomes a self-conscious, dated and maudlin reminder of the ceaseless march of time and your inevitable demise. Read full review
30
New York Magazine (Vulture)Margaret LyonsFeb 25, 2016
Season 1 Review: While Fuller House is bad, it's endurable, and it works well when assessed on its own terms. Read full review
30
SlateWilla PaskinFeb 24, 2016
Season 1 Review: Fuller House is a dopey sitcom, but you can watch it with your entire family without offending anything but your intelligence. Read full review
25
The A.V. ClubJoshua AlstonFeb 24, 2016
Season 1 Review: Earnestness was Full House’s selling point, but Fuller House is too contrived to be sincere. Read full review
25
San Francisco ChronicleDavid WiegandFeb 22, 2016
Season 1 Review: The episodes are predictable because they’re unoriginal and the writing is painful. The canned laughter is perhaps the greatest reminder of the “good old days.” If only all those recorded voices had something legitimate to laugh at. Read full review
20
Philadelphia Daily NewsMolly EichelFeb 25, 2016
Season 1 Review: It accomplishes what it sets out to do--be a bland family sitcom playing to a nostalgic audience. But that doesn't mean it's any good. Read full review
20
Las Vegas WeeklyJosh BellFeb 24, 2016
Season 1 Review: Fuller House is like the childhood friend who never grew up, who still lives at home, still hangs out at places frequented by teenagers, still makes the same dated pop-culture references. Visiting that person usually isn’t fun; it’s just sad. Read full review
20
Entertainment WeeklyJeff JensenFeb 24, 2016
Season 1 Review: There’s a plot, but it’s basically a series of entrances, exits, and signature bits designed to elicit roars from the studio audience. Even if you share the love, it’s just bad TV. Read full review
20
ColliderAllison KeeneFeb 23, 2016
Season 1 Review: A series that confuses nostalgia with humor, terrible writing with throwback fun, and humiliation for “lesson learning” (this mostly falls to Kimmy, who really gets dragged through it). Read full review
10
Boston GlobeIsaac Feldberg Feb 25, 2016
Season 1 Review: Fuller House never justifies its own existence, let alone why the uninitiated should give it a chance. Read full review
10
The WrapNed EhrbarFeb 25, 2016
Season 1 Review: There are so many self-satisfied references to the off-screen lives of the stars and what’s happened to them in the intervening years, you might sometimes think you’re watching a “Saturday Night Live” skit version of the show. Read full review
10
Washington PostHank StueverFeb 24, 2016
Season 1 Review: Netflix’s 13-episode revival of the old ABC sitcom “Full House” is less an update than an irony-free pantomime of the past. Read full review
10
The Hollywood ReporterDan FienbergFeb 22, 2016
Season 1 Review: Fuller House is a mawkish, grating, broadly played chip off the Full House block. It's doubtful that there will be a more painful 2016 TV episode than the Fuller House pilot, which takes an inexcusable 35 minutes to establish a plot that is just an inversion of the original Full House premise. Read full review
0
IndieWireBen TraversFeb 26, 2016
Season 1 Review: The blend of genres that subtract from each other speaks to the overall lack of effort from the series' writers (self-evident), actors (who can't even master one choreographed dance sequence among many) and producers (who are clearly in this for the money). Read full review
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