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  • Nov 6, 2010
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.
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Nov 6, 2010
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
69
67% Positive
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33% Mixed
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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.
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Sep 6, 2011
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cancer7987
I have nothing bad to say about the Bruce family, they are like any other family who is struggling with debt right now in today's society. However, I think television needs to come out with a reality TV show with a under-middle class family, usual average day Joe's who are struggling much worse than the Bruce's are. There are other people in this world who have it much worse than the Bruce's do. I believe the Bruce's are where they are at now is possibly because of bad choices they made financially when they did have money. Of course your going to be in debt if you don't spend your money wisely and debt happens when you have a big family. But all in all, I am sure they'll make it through.
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Jan 9, 2011
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lena
Horrible show. The parents are not likeable, the kids are lazy and the whole premise of the show is overly staged. A typically fake reality show with people I don't care about.
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