Critic Reviews

A raunchy, mostly forgettable female bonding sitcom.

Hot Properties has a loose, engaging silliness. [31 Oct 2005, p.39]

While "Hot Properties" doesn't generate big guffaws, there's a breezy quality to it that makes for good company at what's mercifully a lower decibel level than its lead-in or the WBthe WB's competing "Living With Fran."

Ever since Sex and the City proved you could update Designing Women for a shallower audience by amping up the sex and removing the social content, TV writers have been trying without success to replicate the trick. Though Hot Properties feels too forced and a bit old-hat, it comes closer than most, thanks to a strong cast and a few genuinely funny lines.

This is sassy and superficial but also entertaining, and that's really all it aspires to be.

There was a lot more to Sex and the City than menage a trois jokes, and whether Hot Properties can move beyond smutty snickers to develop real characters and story lines remains to be seen.

Despite the actresses' happy energy, ''Hot Properties" falls into terribly familiar comic territory.

There are some funny moments on "Hot Properties," but few surprises. It's a very conventional, even sedate sitcom about sex.

It's Designing Women without the heart, Sex and the City without the wit.

A disappointingly sex-obsessed sitcom.