Animal Practice

Leads Justin Kirk and JoAnna Garcia Swisher charm. [10 Aug 2012, p.70]

It's too cringe-worthy for overempathizing animal lovers, but general audiences might tune in for lighthearted, escapist fun.

If you enjoy animal sight gags, Animal Practice will provide at least a few laughs.

There are some funny set pieces in the pilot, and enough fruitful interactions with the patients and their troublesome owners that I could see this show developing into a kind of Scrubs with rabies shots, if the characters can develop beyond the familiar menagerie we start out with.

It's hard to imagine Practice ever being more than tolerable, much less making perfect.

Animal Practice is a forgettable show sloppily built from comedy cliches, but it can be fixed by firing most of the cast and rebuilding the show around the monkey.

It's hard to see this show lasting too far beyond the initial taste.