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  • ABC
  • Apr 6, 2009
  • ABC
  • Apr 6, 2009
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

  • ABC
  • Apr 6, 2009
  • ABC
  • Apr 6, 2009
Surviving Suburbia
Season 1
Season 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

Season Episodes

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Episode 1 • Apr 6, 2009
Hero
Episode 2 • Apr 13, 2009
Project Run Away
Episode 3 • Apr 20, 2009
DMV
Episode 4 • Apr 27, 2009
40 Days
Steve tries to introduce Anne to a book that promises increased intimacy; Courtney loses something of importance that Jenna gave her.
Episode 5 • May 27, 2009
Burn Bougainvillea, Burn
A new neighbor wants to cut Anne's prized bougainvillea down; Henry becomes smitten with a teenage girl down the street.
Episode 6 • Jun 12, 2009
If the Shoe Fits, Steal It
Steve falsely accuses a mother at school of stealing Courtney's shoes; Henry keeps his SAT scores a secret from his mom.
Episode 7 • Jun 19, 2009
Dirty Stevie
Onno gives Steve a gun, and while Steve enjoys the feeling of power it gives him, Anne wants it out of the house; Monica sends Anne a bill for the food Henry has been eating while at her house.
Episode 8 • Jun 26, 2009
The Game of Life
Anne starts a family game night in hopes that it will convince Henry to go to college.
Episode 9 • Jul 10, 2009
Nothing for Money
Steve encourages Anne to quit volunteer work and get a job; Henry accuses Jenna of stealing something from the house.
Episode 10 • Jul 17, 2009
School Council
Anne and Steve try to discuss an altercation between Courtney and a neighbor's daughter; Steve learns something about his relationship with Henry.
Episode 11 • Jul 24, 2009
Three End Tables
When an end table the Pattersons bought is sent to a neighbor's house, Anne asks Steve to get it back; Henry puts Courtney's relationship with Jenna in jeopardy.
Episode 12 • Jul 31, 2009
Desperate Housewife
Anne questions the strength of her marriage when a neighbor starts flirting with Steve; Henry and Courtney vie for control of the downstairs television.
Episode 13 • Aug 7, 2009
No Reception
Steve tries to motivate Annie to break away from her manipulative mother after her parents abuse the new cell phones they give them; Henry is counseled after he reprimands Rhonda for glamorizing teen pregnancy in front of Courtney.

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