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Related
SERIES: WB, Wednesday 9:00p (60 minutes)
Starring
Lizzy Caplan,
Jennifer Esposito,
Kiele Sanchez,
Laura Breckenridge,
and
Callum Blue
Friends co-creator Marta Kauffman executive produces this hour-long dramedy about four sisters living in--where else--New York City.
| GENRE(S): |
Comedy,
Drama
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| CREATED BY: |
Liz Tuccillo
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| FIRST AIR DATE: |
October 5, 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
San Jose Mercury News Charlie McCollum
Warm, clever, appealing and a lot of fun.
80
Miami Herald Glenn Garvin
It's funny and warm and I dare you to watch it without getting your pants charmed off.
75
New York Post Linda Stasi
A flat-out good show.
75
People Weekly Tom Gliatto
The banter is warm and fast and easy, and the sisters' personality types balance out well. [17 Oct 2005, p.39]
70
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Rob Owen
"Related" won't be for everyone, especially viewers lacking estrogen, but it is a quality weekly "chick flick" for TV.
70
Variety Brian Lowry
The WB has created the love child of "Friends" and "Sex and the City" -- no surprise considering talent from both series are behind it. While this one-hour comedy drama doesn't have that kind of instant karma, there's plenty of chemistry at work with the matriarchal Sorelli family.
63
New York Daily News David Hinckley
Certain plot lines and production values are irritating (especially the never-ceasing music, scored relentlessly, as if "Related" were a silent movie), but there are a few redeeming bonuses here. The supporting and guest cast is loaded with very effective performers.
60
The New York Times Alessandra Stanley
"Related" is enjoyable but odd: feminism with a baby-doll face.
60
Newsday Diane Werts
This isn't "Friends," after all. At its hour length, "Related" asks us to take the Sorelli saga somewhat more seriously. Yet it provides sitcom incidents that can't stand the significance test.
50
Entertainment Weekly Henry Goldblatt
The series is especially disappointing considering it's one of the most pedigreed of the year. [7 Oct 2005, p.65]
50
Hollywood Reporter Barry Garron
At times, it seems more intent on chasing a demographic than entertaining it.
50
USA Today Robert Bianco
Actually, there are some very appealing performers in Related; they just don't happen to be the stars.
50
Detroit Free Press Mike Duffy
With its attractive cast and the Emmy Award-winning talent behind-the-scenes... "Related" should be a lot more fizzy, witty fun than it is.
50
San Francisco Chronicle Tim Goodman
There's no doubt that "Related" will speak to some women. It will make other women break out in itchy, insanity-inducing hives.
50
Slate Dana Stevens
Related has some strengths, particularly the understated performance of Kiele Sanchez.
40
Chicago Tribune Sid Smith
Occasionally bright and funny, "Related" is also synthetically perky and manic.
30
Kansas City Star Aaron Barnhart
"Related," with its overly contrived premise and tinny dialogue, compares unfavorably even to other woman-relationship shows like "Beautiful People" on ABC Family or "Gilmore Girls."
30
Orlando Sentinel Hal Boedeker
The writing and acting push so hard that the characters come off as annoying, like the fast-moving show around them.
30
PopMatters Samantha Bornemann
Feels strangely empty and hamstrung.... If you like your soaps without novelty, nuance, or bite, Related has four girls for you.
25
Chicago Sun-Times Doug Elfman
A followup to "Sex and the City"? Not "Related." It has zero sex and a thimble of city life. What's worse, the women are even whinier and less confident than the women of "Sex" -- and the men of "Related" are more generous and real than that other show's two-dimensional pugs.
20
Seattle Post-Intelligencer Melanie McFarland
There comes a point at which sisterhood becomes powerfully irritating, and "Related" finds it within the first 40 minutes of its existence.
20
Los Angeles Times Paul Brownfield
[The] show is creatively forced, the sisters speaking in a zeitgeist-sounding dialect over "Sex and the City's" ambient xylophone, without ever landing in the kind of zeitgeist-capturing moment that made that show a hit.
10
Boston Globe Matthew Gilbert
A TV commercial for lips, hair, and clothing products.
0
TV Guide Matt Roush
Watching this inane New York story of four neurotically babbling sisters, each trying to outcute the other, is like swallowing vanilla lip gloss while someone's screaming in your ear.
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