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Farmer Wants a Wife
SERIES: CW, Wednesday 9:00p (60 minutes)


7.5

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Starring Matt Neustadt

CW does "The Bachelor" country style as ten city girls look to win farmer Matt's affection.

GENRE(S):	Reality (Competitive)
CREATED BY:	Adam Cohen Cara Tapper Joanna Vernetti
FIRST AIR DATE:	April 30, 2008

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Entertainment Weekly Gillian Flynn

It's trying to be juicy, stupid fun, but it isn't smart enough.

Hollywood Reporter Barry Garron

This farmer may want a wife but, in the end, the only guarantee is that he gets a reality show.

New York Daily News David Hinckley

Farmer Wants a Wife feels about as "real" as "The Dukes of Hazzard," suggesting it should be viewed in much the same spirit.

Slate Troy Patterson

Farmer Wants a Wife moseyed onto the air last week bearing the best title of any pop-culture commodity of the year to date and, given its standard-issue inanity, a surprising subtextual richness.

Boston Globe Matthew Gilbert

It's entirely paint-by-numbers, a formulaic dating contest colored in with all the too-familiar characters, from the butch Matt to each of the ladies, city gals looking for a real man who doesn't bother with all that metrosexual nonsense. This is reality by rote.

Variety Brian Lowry

Heavily produced, the series has some ratings potential by CW's chicken-feed standards but doesn't feel distinctive or titillating enough to keep 'em down on the farm.

Washington Post Jennifer Frey

Finally, a reality show that doesn't even try to pretend it's not a big, cliched setup.

Los Angeles Times Robert Lloyd

The American Farmer is more... American: another intermittently nasty competition dating show, with stunt challenges and a ritualized elimination at the end of every episode.

Newark Star-Ledger Alan Sepinwall

Despite its silly trappings, Farmer Wants a Wife is neither appalling nor unintentionally funny enough to merit sitting through yet another contrived dating show where the biggest prize would be for someone, anyone, to escape with a bit of their dignity intact.

Philadelphia Daily News Ellen Gray

It's strictly entertainment. Assuming that's what you call it when one guy's ordering 10 aspiring brides through a series of ridiculously staged agricultural challenges to find the one who'll win the right to have her name mentioned in People magazine when they break up.

Philadelphia Inquirer Jonathan Storm

Viewers should figure out pretty quickly that manure is the main ingredient here, and though it might help the corn crop grow high, it's unlikely to do much to boost ratings at the struggling CW network.

New York Post Linda Stasi

Matt produces two products in surplus amounts: cheese and corn. And I'm not talking by-products of animal husbandry.

Chicago Sun-Times Misha Davenport

It's a few chickens short of a flock.

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Rob Owen

American television networks have aired many ridiculous reality shows, but The CW's Farmer Wants a Wife is a master class in televised inanity.

The average user rating for this tv show is 7.5 (out of 10) based on 16 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Melissa gave it a10:
How could they be so harsh on critizing this show? The only thing the critics are looking for is another version to the Bachelor or the Bachelorette but with all the drama in it. I loved watching 'Farmer Wants A Wife' and never missed an episode because I thought it was funny and that it was more of a REALITY tv show. The Bachelor, the Bachelorette, and all the other dating shows they have on tv have so much drama in it and have ridiculous challenges and the contestants constantly arguing because the wrong words or actions were said to each other. Reality doesn't have all the dramatic experiences that they choreograph into the shows a bit too much. 'Farmer Wants A Wife' was a wonderful, refreshing country twist to a Bachelor show and seemed to just be fun and enjoyable without being so fake.

Cheryl C gave it a10:
I enjoyed the show and I too thought Brooke was the one from the beginning. Thanks for being different and offering a lifestyle that lots of people live day to day.

Carol J. gave it a10:
I felt the show was entertaining. Brooke was my choice from the beginning....they had a lot in common...I would like to see updates....it would be good to see if they really make it...just like I love New York or flavor of love.

Joseph C. gave it a10:
How could anyone criticize this show? If you do, the you obviously are scared to try something new.

Fay M. gave it a9:
Am enjoying the show very much. Hope it ends with true everlasting love.

Michlle W gave it a9:
I think the show is funny and I enjoy it, those girls have done things they never thought of doing.

Susan gave it a6:
At first I thought it was sub-par even for a reality show, but the farmer guy is surprisingly human when he realizes that his job is to reject these women week after week.

Farmer Wants a Wife SERIES: CW, Wednesday 9:00p (60 minutes)

Farmer Wants a Wife
SERIES: CW, Wednesday 9:00p (60 minutes)