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  • FOX
  • Sep 9, 2018
  • FOX
  • Sep 9, 2018

Summary Lil Rel (Lil Rel Howery) discovers his wife is having an affair with his barber and after the divorce his kids move to Cleveland with his now ex-wife. With the help of his best friend (Jess “Hilarious” Moore), his younger brother (Jordan L. Jones) and his father (Sinbad), he is ready to start dating and restarting his life in this comedy...

Created By: Kevin Barnett, Lil Rel Howery, Josh Rabinowitz

  • FOX
  • Sep 9, 2018
  • FOX
  • Sep 9, 2018
REL
Season 1
Season Premiere: Sep 9, 2018
Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 6 Critic Reviews
46
User Score Generally Unfavorable Based on 8 User Ratings
2.9
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Summary Lil Rel (Lil Rel Howery) discovers his wife is having an affair with his barber and after the divorce his kids move to Cleveland with his now ex-wife. With the help of his best friend (Jess “Hilarious” Moore), his younger brother (Jordan L. Jones) and his father (Sinbad), he is ready to start dating and restarting his life in this comedy...

Created By: Kevin Barnett, Lil Rel Howery, Josh Rabinowitz

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Season Episodes

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Episode 1 • Sep 9, 2018 • 23 m
Pilot
Newly divorced Rel attempts to start fresh on the West Side of Chicago with the help of his best friend, brother and father.
Episode 2 • Sep 30, 2018 • 22 m
Laundry Room
Rel finds the motivation to get off the couch and invites his Dad, Brittany and Nat to brunch. But his big plans are placed on hold when all of his clothes are held hostage in his laundry room by a local gang.
Episode 3 • Oct 7, 2018 • 22 m
Kids First Visit
Rel's kids come to visit for the first time since the divorce and he tries to make the day fun for them.
Episode 4 • Oct 14, 2018 • 22 m
One Night Stand
Rel gets back in the dating game and receives advice from Brittany when he gets in over his head.
Episode 5 • Oct 21, 2018 • 22 m
Halloween
On Halloween night, Rel, Nat, Brittany and Dad get together to watch a scary zombie movie that's not what they expected and causes controversy among them.
Episode 6 • Nov 4, 2018 • 22 m
Windy City Politics
Rel and Brittany comes to Nat's rescue when he gets a job and his superior acts inappropriately toward him.
Episode 7 • Nov 11, 2018 • 22 m
Re-Enter the Dragons
An old band-mate from Dad's band The Dragons turns up at Rel's hospital, so Rel, Nat and Brittany search for the reason they broke up.
Episode 8 • Nov 18, 2018 • 22 m
Blizzard
During a blizzard, Rel gets stuck at the hospital, while Brittany and Nat get snowed in at a bar along with Brittany's ex-boyfriend. Who was the lady that was with rel at the hospital taking cream out of the Oreos.
Episode 9 • Dec 2, 2018 • 22 m
Brittany's Mom
Brittany's mother visits hoping to reunite with her.
Episode 10 • Dec 9, 2018 • 22 m
Hate & Hip Hop
Rel has a prejudiced patient and Brittany's ex-boyfriend has an awful new rap song.
Episode 11 • Jan 6, 2019 • 22 m
Mom
Rel sees a therapist to make peace with his mother's death, while his dad has trouble keeping it together during a celebration honoring her passing.
Episode 12 • Jan 13, 2019 • 22 m
Cleveland
Rel goes to Cleveland when he hears his daughter got into trouble at school, while back in Chicago, Brittany creates a vision board for Nat to help him set goals.

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 6 Critic Reviews
46
17% Positive
1 Review
50% Mixed
3 Reviews
33% Negative
2 Reviews

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 6 Critic Reviews
46
17% Positive
1 Review
50% Mixed
3 Reviews
33% Negative
2 Reviews

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67
Sep 10, 2018
Even though Howery is saddled with having to be the standard sitcom protagonist around which the rest of the show revolves, it still offers him a chance to indulge in the crowd-pleasing charms that made him a “Get Out” breakout.
By Steve Greene FULL REVIEW
55
Sep 22, 2018
It's a big, sometimes over-the-top sitcom like Good Times, The Jeffersons or the other black comedies that dominated the Nielsen ratings for much of the 1970s. But its ambitions to be something more are sadly unfulfilled.
By Glenn Garvin FULL REVIEW
55
Sep 6, 2018
There are occasional glimpses of “Seinfeld”-style humor. ... But the pilot is neither as funny as that NBC classic nor as topical as “The Carmichael Show.”
By Rob Owen FULL REVIEW
50
Sep 10, 2018
The generalities are in place for a workable comedy. It's the specifics that are often hacky and generally unfunny, yet they're frequently rewarded by what feels like a surplus of audience approval, which always ends up being one of the elements that make multicam haters cringe.
By Daniel Fienberg FULL REVIEW
38
Sep 6, 2018
Likable lead and cast, but Rel otherwise feels like a tepid, tame commercial network sitcom.
By Verne Gay FULL REVIEW
25
Sep 6, 2018
The whole thing comes off as uncomfortably clownish and insulting to viewers of any color, let alone African-Americans who have every right to cringe at such off-putting, clownish portrayals in times when FX’s immeasurably superior Atlanta has charted such bold new territory.
By Ed Bark FULL REVIEW

User Reviews

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User Score
Generally Unfavorable Based on 8 User Ratings
2.9
13% Positive
1 Rating
25% Mixed
2 Ratings
63% Negative
5 Ratings

User Reviews

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User Score
Generally Unfavorable Based on 8 User Ratings
2.9
13% Positive
1 Rating
25% Mixed
2 Ratings
63% Negative
5 Ratings

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