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Love, Inc.
SERIES: UPN, Thursday 9:30p (30 minutes)
Starring
Holly Robinson Peete,
Busy Philipps,
Reagan Gomez-Preston,
Ion Overman,
and
Vince Vieluf
The employees of a busy matchmaking firm excel at finding dates for their clients, but have less success at sorting out their own personal lives. Hijinks ensue.
| GENRE(S): |
Comedy
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| CREATED BY: |
Andrew Secunda
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| FIRST AIR DATE: |
September 22, 2005 |
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...
80
Newsday Diane Werts
The characters are vibrantly well-defined... And the writing is smart, with a light touch.
60
Variety Laura Fries
An affable new sitcom.
40
Orlando Sentinel Hal Boedeker
Centers on a dating consultant (Busy Philipps) who has no romantic success of her own. Could it be because the show presents her as an overbearing know-it-all?
38
USA Today Robert Bianco
Overagitated and overaggressive, Philipps is in constant motion; her face contorting, body twitching, voice braying. Against all odds, she has taken a show that was merely bad and made it truly unbearable.
38
New York Daily News David Hinckley
Perhaps, with all the reality TV dating shows pervading the tube, there's not much appetite left for a sitcom about a fictional dating firm. More probably, there's just not much appetite for a sitcom that isn't funny.
30
Hollywood Reporter Ray Richmond
While this show isn't terrible, demonstrating spirit and energy if not belly laughs, it will need to get funnier very quickly or risk dying a quick, inglorious death.
25
Chicago Sun-Times Doug Elfman
Negligible.
25
Detroit Free Press Mike Duffy
[A] trite little laugh-track factory.
20
Miami Herald Glenn Garvin
Humdrum.
20
Seattle Post-Intelligencer Melanie McFarland
We wonder whether the problem isn't in the casting but the paper-thin punch lines. No, wait, we don't wonder... we know that's the problem.
20
The New York Times Virginia Heffernan
The writing on "Love, Inc." is unsparkly and sometimes labored.
20
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Rob Owen
The laugh track is far too enthusiastic for the lame attempts at comedy on display here.
20
PopMatters Todd R. Ramlow
If it's trying to emulate Sex and the City, Love, Inc. misses the fact that that show presented us with complex characters from the get-go; here the single women are all pretty much one-shtick ponies.
12
San Francisco Chronicle Tim Goodman
Woefully bad.
10
Los Angeles Times Paul Brownfield
"Love, Inc." is as unintentionally unfunny as "Room and Bored" -- the sitcom within a sitcom on HBO's "The Comeback" -- was meant to be bad.
10
Boston Globe Matthew Gilbert
Each character on ''Love, Inc." is a one-joke affair.
10
Chicago Tribune Maureen Ryan
A grating comedy.
 The average user rating for this tv show is 6.6 (out of 10) based on 3 User Votes
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