| 70 |
The New York Times Alessandra Stanley
Not all the jokes are funny, but the characters are winningly unlovable. |
| 60 |
Kansas City Star Aaron Barnhart
There’s nothing especially novel on “The War at Home,” except the way the familiar elements -- punch lines, fantasy sequences, sassy kids, talk-to-the-camera confessionals, bleeped profanity -- come together. |
| 60 |
Los Angeles Times Paul Brownfield
The result is a show that tilts toward the familiar except for the man in the middle of it. Rapaport... is a fresh choice as a man-boy whose wife and kids dance circles around him. |
| 60 |
Philadelphia Inquirer Jonathan Storm
You may also laugh at some of these jokes, because Michael Rapaport, who plays Daddy Dave, delivers them with such bravado. |
| 50 |
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Rob Owen
Would be revolutionary -- if the year was 1980. |
| 50 |
New York Post Linda Stasi
While the cast is quite good, and they even manage to rip a laugh or two out of the material, it's not enough to sustain a whole show. |
| 50 |
Chicago Tribune Sid Smith
"War" is sometimes funny. |
| 38 |
USA Today Robert Bianco
You can think of it as Titus with kids added and talent removed. |
| 25 |
People Weekly Tom Gliatto
The only good thing is Anita Barone. [19 Sep 2005, p.48] |
| 25 |
Entertainment Weekly Gillian Flynn
It's one limp comedy that pretends to be frank and daring about race, gender, and sexual orientation--and instead is glib, tired, and slippery. [11 Nov 2005, p.59] |
| 20 |
Orlando Sentinel Hal Boedeker
A coarse, exceedingly obnoxious show. |
| 20 |
Variety Phil Gallo
An uninspired collection of cliches, sex jokes and uninvolving characters. |
| 12 |
San Francisco Chronicle Tim Goodman
If "The War at Home" spent more time on good jokes instead of recycling every gimmick ever seen on TV, it might merely be mediocre, but it's worse. |
| 12 |
New York Daily News David Hinckley
Yes, it's "Married ... With Children" all over again, except that it's not played as broadly, or as successfully. |
| 10 |
Miami Herald Glenn Garvin
The network thinks this is razor's-edge television because the characters turn to address the audience during cut-ins. But all the bellowing is straight from The Honeymooners, the jokes from Mandingo and the dialogue... from about sixth grade. |
| 10 |
Boston Globe Matthew Gilbert
Has absolutely nothing going for it. |
| 10 |
Hollywood Reporter Ray Richmond
What this show does prove is that you can be racy and still somehow tediously tame. |
| 10 |
Village Voice Joy Press
A template of clichés the writers don't even bother to fill in. |
| 0 |
Washington Post Tom Shales
The problem is not just that it's crude and gross, but that its crudeness and grossness are so pathetically forced and contrived. |
| 0 |
Chicago Sun-Times Doug Elfman
If this is America, I want out. |
| 0 |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer Melanie McFarland
This is awful. |
