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Downsized
SummaryThe Bruce family has been nicknamed "the cheapest family in America." Learn how they manage to raise seven teenage children while growing their own food and making their own clothes.

Downsized

Season 1 Premiere: 
Nov 6, 2010
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
65
57% Positive
4 Reviews
43% Mixed
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0% Negative
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Dec 10, 2010
80
Washington Post
There's a tender and no-nonsense tenor to it, which is a welcome switch from most of reality TV's junky tropes.
Dec 10, 2010
80
The New York Times
It's impossible not to root for the Bruce family. But it's just as hard not to dread the series's success.
Dec 10, 2010
80
New York Daily News
Very often, reality-show participants stop seeming like real people, as if being on TV makes them abstract characters. [Daughter] Bailey's bad moment here makes Downsized feel painfully real.
Dec 10, 2010
67
Newsday
You can't help realizing that just by the act of taping a reality show, the Bruces--all nine of them--are already employed in a job, albeit a temporary one.
Dec 10, 2010
58
Boston Herald
Many of the scenes with the teens seem staged, especially tonight's climax. Still, the Bruces aren't anything like the delusional couples who populate Bravo's "Housewives" shows. This is a functioning family trying to survive a dysfunctional time.
Dec 10, 2010
50
Wall Street Journal
[Why do] The husbands come across as total bums? Not just because of the way they lounge around all day moaning about how hard (sniff) it is (sniff) not to be able to provide for their family. They dress like bums, too.
Aug 16, 2011
42
Boston Herald
Stepfather Todd reacts to news of the family's fifth car by reasoning that since they don't have enough parking spaces, the only solution is to buy a home. And we're off and running to the poor house. Again.
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