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Worst Week
SERIES: CBS, Monday 9:30p (30 minutes)
Starring
Kyle Bornheimer,
Erinn Hayes,
Kurtwood Smith,
Nancy Lenehan,
Jay Malone,
and
Tamara Mello
In this remake of a British comedy, everything that can go wrong will go wrong in the life of Sam Briggs (Kyle Bornheimer).
| GENRE(S): |
Comedy
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| CREATED BY: |
Matt Tarses
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| FIRST AIR DATE: |
September 22, 2008 |
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...
100
Newsday Verne Gay
You can't go wrong with Smith ("That '70s Show") or Lenehan, pros with impeccable comic timing, which leaves relative newcomers Bornheimer and Hayes. Thumbs-up here, too. Worst Week may be the best new comedy on network TV this season.
83
Entertainment Weekly Gillian Flynn
Bornheimer absorbs every setback with such a beaten-puppy air that each fresh misery feels ludicrous, rather than merely annoying. Will it work, (worst) week after (worst) week? With Bornheimer, it's strangely possible. His is a feathery touch on wrecking-ball comedy.
80
Hollywood Reporter Barry Garron
This is one of the rare situation comedies that relies almost entirely on situations, each of which is more bizarre than the next and at the same time perfectly plausible. It's almost too good.
80
Kansas City Star Aaron Barnhart
Worst Week is Rube Goldberg meets Murphy’s Law meets the parents. And it’s hysterical.
80
Los Angeles Times Robert Lloyd
The show moves fast without seeming to rush you. The timing, on the part of actors and editors alike, is excellent--both Bornheimer and Smith are good physical comedians--so that even while you can set your watch by the Next Bad Thing About to Happen, tension is created, suspense maintained.
80
Philadelphia Inquirer Jonathan Storm
Worst Week is a dandy confection, as slight and silly and flat-out hilarious as anything that's come along on TV in a few years.
80
Variety Brian Lowry
As adapted by Matt Tarses, there's something refreshing about seeing an utterly screwball comedy mounted on an episodic scale. Bornheimer, meanwhile, comes across as the kind of likable schlub who can't figure out why these awful things keep happening to him
80
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Rob Owen
It's too soon to declare Worst Week the fall's best new sitcom, but if the show's writers can find a way to sustain its seemingly unsustainable premise, it may overcome all doubts. It's certainly off to a strong start.
75
Time James Poniewozik
There are signs that the premise may not sustain for long (the title, after all, gives it only a week), but it still shows that a good pratfall is the universal language.
75
USA Today Robert Bianco
Yet for all that it revels in catastrophe, the most promising aspect of Worst Week is a sweet-tempered empathy that allows you to identify with all four characters.
70
Newark Star-Ledger Alan Sepinwall
The journey from Point A to Point B is both surprising and funny in spots, thanks to Bornheimer's likable doofus vibe and the usual waves of contempt coming from Kurtwood Smith (last seen as Red on "That '70s Show") as his prospective father-in-law.
70
Orlando Sentinel Hal Boedeker
Smith perfected the style on "That '70s Show." This time, he plays a mean judge who holds Sam in contempt. But the evidence suggests that Worst Week is the fall's best new sitcom.
60
Boston Globe Matthew Gilbert
It won't insult your intelligence, and it has a completely likable lead actor in Kyle Bornheimer; but Worst Week is nevertheless completely predictable and unambitious.
60
LA Weekly Robert Abele
Even though it's obviously well-made and Bornheimer has a flinty wit that prevents him from being just another Ben Stiller–ish sap....if I'm being truthful, the original British version of this series was funnier.
50
Chicago Sun-Times Misha Davenport
Worst Week, a new entry in CBS' Monday lineup, is a luke-warm sitcom about a schleprock of a magazine editor named Sam Briggs (Kyle Bornheimer) who becomes nervous and accident-prone when around his fiancee Melanie's conservative parents Dick (Kurtwood Smith, reprising the gruff father figure he played on "That '70s Show") and mother Angela (Nancy Lenehan).
50
PopMatters Michael Abernethy
That the pilot fails to provide a foundation for the show’s future direction does not bode well. The only thing that is clear is how much the Claytons dislike Sam.
50
San Francisco Chronicle Tim Goodman
Though there are plenty of hard-earned (some might say forced) laughs here and Bornheimer is a real find, you can't help but wonder how they'll keep up the pace.
40
Washington Post Tom Shales
Worst Week has the primal simplicity of a Road Runner cartoon but less depth and, of course, far fewer laughs.
40
Chicago Tribune Maureen Ryan
All in all, this is a much-watered down version of "Meet the Parents," and the only watchable things are the slow-burn looks of disgust from Dick (Kurtwood Smith), Sam's displeased future father-in-law.
40
Miami Herald Glenn Garvin
Worst Week certainly has some genuine laughs, but they run out well before the pratfalls and pee-pee jokes do.
20
New York Daily News David Hinckley
The lesser problem is that all the gags are telegraphed. We see them coming long before they arrive. The bigger problem is that when they get here, they all feel forced, as if someone thought of the gag first, then tried to manufacture a situation, however contorted, that would lead to it.
0
New York Post Linda Stasi
One of the worst new shows of the week.
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