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'Til Death Do Us Part
SERIES: Court TV, Monday 10:00p (30 minutes)

'Til Death Do Us Part
Critic Score
Metascore: 44 Metascore out of 100
User Score  
7.8 out of 10
based on 12 reviews
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Starring John Waters

John Waters (as "The Groom Reaper") acts as a guide for this anthology of dramatizations of true crime stories about husbands who kill their wives, and wives who kill their husbands.

GENRE(S): Crime, Drama, True Story
CREATED BY: Jeff Lieberman
FIRST AIR DATE: March 19, 2007

The 3/19 premiere airs for a a full hour.

What The Critics Said

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70
The New York Times Ginia Bellafante
Good sickly fun.
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67
Entertainment Weekly Mandi Bierly
The premise is promising. Too bad the poorly-acted premiere is a snooze. [23 Mar 2007, p.55]
63
New York Post Linda Stasi
What I like about this series is that it is anti-slick and anti-pretty.
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60
Washington Post Tom Shales
" 'Til Death Do Us Part" would be sort of ultimately ordinary, the very definition of a negligible trifle, if Waters weren't lurking around.
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50
Newsday Diane Werts
The stories may hardly be innovative... but their very familiarity becomes comforting.
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40
Wall Street Journal Nancy DeWolf Smith
It's all done in an over-the-top, low-budget sort of way.
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38
Chicago Sun-Times Doug Elfman
It's not a great show, but it's a good concept.
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30
Boston Globe Matthew Gilbert
" 'Til Death Do Us Part"... almost contains enough comically clumsy filming and overacting to achieve camp. Almost, but not quite enough, even with Waters doing his twisted Rod Serling bit.
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30
Hollywood Reporter Ray Richmond
It isn't that "Death" is terrible. It's just too broad to be taken seriously.
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30
New York Daily News David Hinckley
Waters may kill me, but the rest of "'Til Death" doesn't have the same pitch-perfect tone.
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25
People Weekly Tom Gliatto
It's Court TV's first original scripted drama, and it's bad. [16 Apr 2007, p.43]
10
Variety Brian Lowry
It's a new twist on an old-fashioned anthology, though the endings are only vaguely macabre or surprising, while the murders and sexual situations are trashy but too poorly executed to qualify as titillating.
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What Our Users Said

Vote Now!The average user rating for this tv show is 7.8 (out of 10) based on 16 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

JoAnne E. gave it a9:
What is the name of the composer and title of the Cello composition on your tv commericals "til death do us part?

rosemary c. gave it a10:
I love this show!!! I am not a huge tv watcher but I think this show is funny and dramatic at the same time!!!

Chris W. gave it a7:
Entertaining and darkly whimsical. It reminds me of murder mystery shows of the past and Jon waters is the perfect choice as the host.

Franki S. gave it a10:
I love the surprise ending. Need more reruns not only on Mondays

Anne C gave it a0:
Horrible! John Waters is sickening - it makes me throw up to see the ads which are in the worst taste. Depicting marriage negatively in the ads, as well as the frequency with which ads occur makes me hit the remote, and I always love most everything on Court TV!

ANGELA J gave it a9:
Love John Waters narrating. It's kind of Twilight Zoneesque. I like the short 30 minute stories. I watch the show every chance I get.

Abe V. gave it a1:
This show is so bad. It tries to be tongue-in-cheek but it does not work. Really cheesy stories and cheesy acting. It does not belong on CourtTV. It belongs on Wifetime TV. It's that bad. It annoys me that CourtTV plays it so much.

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