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Class, The
SERIES: CBS, Monday 8:00p (30 minutes)


7.7

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Starring Jason Ritter, Heather Goldenhersh, Lizzy Caplan, Jon Bernthal, Julie Halston, Sean Maguire, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, and Andrea Anders

This CBS sitcom follows a group of 20-somethings who were once in the same third grade class.

GENRE(S):	Comedy
CREATED BY:	David Crane Jeffrey Klarik
FIRST AIR DATE:	September 18, 2006

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...

Philadelphia Inquirer Jonathan Storm

The best sitcom this year, and one of the best in a lot of years.

USA Today Robert Bianco

Juggling such a large ensemble won't be easy, and the producers have to guard against crowding too many stories together at the cost of depth and development.... If they can get the balance right, though, Class should be an ideal fit for CBS' successful Monday lineup.

Orlando Sentinel Hal Boedeker

Not since Friends has a comedy been blessed with so many appealing performers matched to sharply drawn characters.

Hollywood Reporter Barry Garron

In addition to some screwball comedy, it also has a lot of heart.

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Rob Owen

Cute but not cloying, funny but not overflowing with gratuitous sex jokes, "The Class" earns a B+, which easily puts it in contention for valedictorian among fall 2006's freshman comedies.

Detroit Free Press Mike Duffy

It arrives fresh, charming and consistently funny.

Chicago Sun-Times Doug Elfman

"The Class" is a good example of how any premise can be turned into good fiction, even if it's cluttered with tired cliches.

People Weekly Tom Gliatto

The Class doesn't necessarily generate more laughs than other sitcoms, but it has more charm--like a kinder, gentler How I Met Your Mother--and that's incentive enough to stick with it. [16 Oct 2006, p.39]

San Jose Mercury News Charlie McCollum

The writing has picked up considerably since the pilot. But the real reason to try this show is the cast.

Baltimore Sun David Zurawik

A comedy with lots of charm.

Newsday Diane Werts

Watch the first few minutes of "The Class" in its CBS sitcom debut tonight, and you may not believe me when I say this, but here goes. I think they might have something here.

Philadelphia Daily News Ellen Gray

And though there are a few clunkers along the way... the largely theater-trained cast is as solid as the writing, which only grows stronger in two subsequent episodes.

Miami Herald Glenn Garvin

Poignantly funny.

Variety Brian Lowry

In the mostly undistinguished roll call of new comedies, it goes to the head of the class.

Entertainment Weekly Gillian Flynn

While [Lizzy Caplan's] pretty great, the show remains merely somewhere on the edge of good. [3 Nov 2006, p.67]

The New York Times Alessandra Stanley

“The Class” has appealing characters and funny lines, but it has some problems. The jokes move along slowly, and at times the acting turns very broad and very loud, as if it were dinner theater.

New York Daily News David Hinckley

The best thing to say about "The Class" is that it improves by quite a few notches as it goes along.... The worst thing to say about "The Class" is that requiring viewers to come back and try, try again is asking a lot.

Newark Star-Ledger Alan Sepinwall

A sometimes-promising, sometimes-frustrating, always-overpopulated new sitcom that kicks off this season's odd new trend of shows about relative strangers who become best pals in a hurry.

New York Post Adam Buckman

There's a nice idea in there somewhere. Now, if CBS and the show's producers can get together on changing most of it, they might have something.

Los Angeles Times Robert Lloyd

If "The Class" feels calculated, unrelated to life outside sitcoms, and encased in amber, it's a competent American product, ultimately, no harder to watch than, say, a Dodge is to drive.

Chicago Tribune Maureen Ryan

The crass elements of “The Class” threaten to drag the whole show down.

Boston Globe Matthew Gilbert

"The Class" will never be smart, or clever, or original, but it does have a chance of becoming inoffensive and diverting.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer Melanie McFarland

Hang out for a while... and you may quickly realize why you didn't stay in touch with most of your fellow third-graders. People like these suck the life out of you.

Kansas City Star Aaron Barnhart

The punchlines fell flat more often than not.

Time James Poniewozik

Almost none of [the characters] shows signs of becoming an actual person rather than a high-concept joke.

San Francisco Chronicle Tim Goodman

The best that "The Class" can muster is a kind of cookie-cutter familiarity (also known as lameness) that gets prodded by the laugh track to make everyone at home feel like a good time is being had. It's not.

Washington Post Tom Shales

"The Class" has very little. Considerably worse than being classless, however, is being laughless, at least if you happen to be a sitcom, and "The Class" does, albeit one that's about as rib-tickling as a migraine.

The average user rating for this tv show is 7.7 (out of 10) based on 76 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Liz H. gave it a9:
PLEASE BRING IT BACK! I am stunned it was totally canceled. I laughed out loud ever single episode!!! I have been waiting for it and didn't believe when someone told me it wasn't coming back. I just looked it up! TERRIBLE! It is almost like a show has to have dirty comedy for people to watch it. This show was good clean fun! :( It replaced my Will & Grace (even though that was a little dirty.

b33p b33p gave it an8:
Good, fresh new show. Great blend of characters and good storylines.

Brenda C. gave it a9:
Great show! Please don't cancel it, now that we've lost Friends this show came right at the perfect time...Please, please don't cancel it, we can't wait for it to return.

Daph C gave it a10:
This show is very funny and has characters you will fall in love with. I would compare it to "Friends" (obviously nothing will every be better) but this show is one of my favorites from last season. I am so glad that it will be on again. I would recommend watching last seasons episodes if you have time... they are all on the CBS website and you can watch the whole season online! You will not be disappointed in this show.

Heidi W. gave it a9:
My favorite 2006 comedy. Can't wait for it to return.

laura h. gave it a10:
I love this show. Is it coming back???? We have a whole group of us that watch and want to know.

Darci S gave it a9:
I love it! It's on the best night for TV and it's one of the funniest shows I've seen in a long time! They can't cancel it!

Class, The SERIES: CBS, Monday 8:00p (30 minutes)

Class, The
SERIES: CBS, Monday 8:00p (30 minutes)