3.11.2005
TV Review: Jake In Progress
Jake in Progress
ABC Thursdays at 8:00 P.M.
Critical Consensus: 64 [okay]
Seattle Times: 100
“Jake in Progress is the reinvented sitcom that TV has badly needed. It combines fast, in-the-know humor and a surprising amount of heart. It treats us like the smart viewers we are without a hint of bi-coastal snobbery.”
E! Online: 75
“A pretty lead, quirky sidekicks and Hollywood skewering? Progress might just be what the ailing sitcom genre needs.”
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: 75
“Jake in Progress is a funny, likable show, if a bit of an HBO wannabe (single camera, no laugh track) in both execution and tone.”
Chicago Sun-Times: 63
“...overall there's little to make us want to commit. Not yet. While it doesn't have us at hello, it might eventually get us.”
Entertainment Weekly: 50
“...an underdeveloped sitcom in which Stamos' Jake alternates snappy talk while he strides along Manhattan's fast track with sappy talk while he apologizes to an ever-regenerating supply of irked women.”
TV Guide (Matt Roush): 25
“[a] slick but empty new comedy.”
ABC Thursdays at 8:00 P.M.
Critical Consensus: 64 [okay]
Seattle Times: 100
“Jake in Progress is the reinvented sitcom that TV has badly needed. It combines fast, in-the-know humor and a surprising amount of heart. It treats us like the smart viewers we are without a hint of bi-coastal snobbery.”
E! Online: 75
“A pretty lead, quirky sidekicks and Hollywood skewering? Progress might just be what the ailing sitcom genre needs.”
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: 75
“Jake in Progress is a funny, likable show, if a bit of an HBO wannabe (single camera, no laugh track) in both execution and tone.”
Chicago Sun-Times: 63
“...overall there's little to make us want to commit. Not yet. While it doesn't have us at hello, it might eventually get us.”
Entertainment Weekly: 50
“...an underdeveloped sitcom in which Stamos' Jake alternates snappy talk while he strides along Manhattan's fast track with sappy talk while he apologizes to an ever-regenerating supply of irked women.”
TV Guide (Matt Roush): 25
“[a] slick but empty new comedy.”
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