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- FOX
- Dec 4, 2019
- FOX
- Dec 4, 2019
Summary Sean Sr. and Ann Moody (Denis Leary and Elizabeth Perkins) welcome their three adult children (Francois Arnaud, Jay Baruchel and Chelsea Frei) home for the holidays in this comedy series based on the Australian series of the same name.
- FOX
- Dec 4, 2019
- FOX
- Dec 4, 2019
Summary Sean Sr. and Ann Moody (Denis Leary and Elizabeth Perkins) welcome their three adult children (Francois Arnaud, Jay Baruchel and Chelsea Frei) home for the holidays in this comedy series based on the Australian series of the same name.
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 10 Critic Reviews
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30% Positive
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60% Mixed
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10% Negative
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 10 Critic Reviews
55
30% Positive
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
60% Mixed
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
10% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
A well-crafted, consistently amusing, occasionally touching confection, as warm and welcoming as a cup of hot chocolate after a friendly family snowball fight in the backyard.
The cast gels nicely, and “The Moodys” was obviously shot in a real neighborhood (and not a studio back lot), which lends an air of reality to the situation, however contrived it might be. Those situations, though, are kept to a minimum, and this is one TV family in which you won’t mind investing six hours of your time.
Occasionally funny but mostly sort of dull, “The Moodys” seems unlikely to become a Christmas classic.
Never quite as madcap as it wants to be. ... The nicest surprise is Denis Leary's low-key and slow-burn performance. [9-22 Dec 2019, p.13]
The upside is “The Moodys” moves fast and goes down easy; the downside is there’s no reason to get invested in the family. Their stories don’t really make sense; even though each arc’s ending is predictable.
All six episodes function more like a strange experiment in accentuating a project’s flaws, despite a solid cast and writers who know how to work with said cast.
Even darker holiday movies end in a place where one is glad one spent the time with the family in question. At the end of time spent with the Moodys, one’s simply ready to leave.
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40% Positive
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