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'Til Death
SERIES: Fox, Thursday 8:00p (30 minutes)


5.7

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Starring Brad Garrett, Joely Fisher, Eddie Kaye Thomas, and Kat Foster

Cranky longtime married couple Brad Garrett and Joely Fisher get happy newlyweds for neighbors. The result: hijinks! Or cancellation.

GENRE(S):	Comedy
CREATED BY:	Josh Goldsmith Cathy Yuspa
FIRST AIR DATE:	September 7, 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...

Newsday Verne Gay

A show that is so achingly familiar - in content, tone, stars, everything - that it's actually funny.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer Melanie McFarland

You won't be quoting lines from it over Friday morning coffee, but it is, if not good, then good enough.

Entertainment Weekly Gillian Flynn

Sometimes what should be dark comedy is just plain depressing. [8 Sep 2006, p.156]

New York Daily News David Hinckley

"'Til Death" plays like a tired reworking of "Married ... With Children," but without the children.

Hollywood Reporter Barry Garron

The harsh reality is that it will be lucky to get the time it needs to figure out how to become the show it was meant to be.

The New York Times Virginia Heffernan

It’s pretty easy to loathe this stuff if you like your comedy more ragged, drug-addled and confrontational. But there’s an easygoing red-state pleasantness to it too, a celebration of timeless and consoling suburban inertia.

Chicago Sun-Times Doug Elfman

The first episode is OK. Predictable. Standard. But Garrett's funny, and he and Fisher work great together.

LA Weekly Robert Abele

The entertainment value in this otherwise rudimentary sitcom lies in watching Garrett aim for front-and-center Gleason-ness.

Orlando Sentinel Hal Boedeker

'Til Death takes predictable, mean-spirited turns, and Garrett acts with off-putting self-satisfaction. His Eddie is no charmer like his bumbling Robert Barone.

Detroit Free Press Mike Duffy

There are occasional funny moments amid the raging comic mediocrity.

Newark Star-Ledger Alan Sepinwall

It's not a great sitcom, not even really a good one, and the strain of trying to sell such mediocre material will no doubt get to Garrett in a few weeks, but it's still vastly better than its companion show.

Washington Post Tom Shales

At least [it] has possibilities and a good excuse for a giggle now and then.

Kansas City Star Aaron Barnhart

"'Til Death" seems a pretty thin concept.

USA Today Robert Bianco

The main structural problem for the show is that neither the couples nor the contrast makes any sense.... Still, this being a comedy, the more troubling problem is that no one is funny, starting with Garrett.

Variety Brian Lowry

Put it this way: Any comedy that milks multiple jokes from a character being named "Woodcock" is pretty much running on fumes.

Philadelphia Daily News Ellen Gray

Without the "Raymond" writing team behind him, Garrett's not so much unleashed as he is uninteresting.

New York Post Linda Stasi

"'Til Death's" Garrett, the man who made Jackie Gleason look like a disgusting manic-depressive jerk in that awful CBS movie, seems to be bringing the same unpleasant character to his first leading-man role in a sitcom.

Chicago Tribune Maureen Ryan

"Arrested Development" this ain't.

Los Angeles Times Paul Brownfield

Almost as soon as the sitcom begins you can feel where every joke is going to end.

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Rob Owen

The pilot plot... follows a well-worn path of sitcoms traceable back to when cavemen acted them out with large dinosaur bones as props.

Time James Poniewozik

It's a lame premise burdened with even lamer jokes.

San Francisco Chronicle Tim Goodman

This is probably the worst sitcom of the fall.

The average user rating for this tv show is 5.7 (out of 10) based on 44 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Chris L. gave it a9:
Always makes me laugh.

Nike H gave it a10:
It's pretty damn funny at times... it's a "situational comedy" and brings up some hilarious points that people can relate to in married suburbia life.

Joy gave it a2:
This show looked lame when I saw the previews for it but I gave it a chance since Brad Garrett is one of the stars. Boy, did it stink! We've heard these jokes before on unfunnier shows. I give the show 2 months before it gets pulled off the air.

Scott G gave it a6:
The concept is fine, the casting is right (I'd watch Joely Fisher in anything), but the scripting is weak; there's a lack of crispness that translates into a lack of laughs. The episode where Mrs. Woodcock has a sex dream about Brad Garrett's "Eddie" was ripped off from "Home Improvement". This does not bode well for the future.

Said B gave it a10:
Give it a chance if it does not work out cancell it

Sandy L gave it a10:
I love this show!!!I I started loving Garrett near the last season of Raymond, so to see him act again is great. He is hilarious and so is Joely. Keep it coming!!

Brian J gave it a10:
Terrific show! Hoping the popularity of this show will get 'The War at Home' (trash) cancelled!

'Til Death SERIES: Fox, Thursday 8:00p (30 minutes)

'Til Death
SERIES: Fox, Thursday 8:00p (30 minutes)