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  • 2009
  • ABC
Surviving Suburbia

Summary Surviving Suburbia focuses on a father named Steve Patterson, his wife Anne, and their two children, Henry and Courtney. Everything seems normal for the Pattersons until new next-door neighbors cause several problems, turning their suburban lifestyle upside-down. Media Rights Capital (MRC) produces the show.

Created By: Kevin Abbott

  • 2009
  • ABC
  • 2009
  • ABC

Surviving Suburbia

Season 1 Premiere: Apr 6, 2009
Metascore Generally Unfavorable Based on 16 Critic Reviews
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Summary Surviving Suburbia focuses on a father named Steve Patterson, his wife Anne, and their two children, Henry and Courtney. Everything seems normal for the Pattersons until new next-door neighbors cause several problems, turning their suburban lifestyle upside-down. Media Rights Capital (MRC) produces the show.

Created By: Kevin Abbott

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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable Based on 16 Critic Reviews
34
6% Positive
1 Review
19% Mixed
3 Reviews
75% Negative
12 Reviews

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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable Based on 16 Critic Reviews
34
6% Positive
1 Review
19% Mixed
3 Reviews
75% Negative
12 Reviews

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83
Modest but terrific, uncool but charming, this ain't According to Jim: Give it a try.
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40
The jokes never got any better than that, not even when the girl-moppet later waxed ecstatic about Zac Efron in High School Musical.
By Troy Patterson FULL REVIEW
30
In place of Saget’s real-life comic shtick, which is genuinely outrageous and dirty, we get sour, rehashed Honeymooners, misanthropy without insight.
By Emily Nussbaum FULL REVIEW
30
A show so fastidiously old-fashioned as to feel assembled from pieces of '70s family sitcoms.
By Brian Lowry FULL REVIEW
30
It's difficult to imagine many "Dancing" viewers will be suckered into watching this unimaginative, predictable comedy series for more than the first couple of minutes.
By Rob Owen FULL REVIEW
20
Domestic comedy doesn't get more generic, more insipid, or more pointless than "Surviving Suburbia," and no, I haven't forgotten about "Gary Unmarried" or "In the Motherhood."
By Matthew Gilbert FULL REVIEW
10
Why anybody is paying the writers and cast of Surviving Suburbia for what is essentially an amateur-hour production is just one more of those eternal television mysteries.
By Glenn Garvin FULL REVIEW

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Production Company:
  • Acme Productions
  • Media Rights Capital (MRC)
Initial Release Date: Apr 6, 2009
Number of seasons: 1 Season
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