Luis

The liveliest of the year's new sitcoms. It is low, broad and abrasive, but it moves fast and has some of the urban funkiness of the old "John Larroquette Show" -- the one set in a bus station -- and was indeed created by a veteran of that series, Will Gluck.

Most of Luis so far is underdeveloped and oversold. [19 Sept 2003, p.B48]

Like Whoopi, Luis just barrels along on coarse writing and over-the-top performances. This obnoxious show is the salmon doughnut of sitcoms. [19 Sept 2003, p.E1]

A largely one-note performance that does little to hook an audience. [19 Sept 2003]

The pilot script manages to poke fun at more ethnic groups than the average episode of "All in the Family," but without any of the wit. Most of the jokes, like most of the characters, just sit there.

Advocacy groups pushing for more Latinos on TV may hang their heads after watching Luis. Fox's laffer indeed puts a Puerto Riqueno front and center, but the show pastes together every possible cliche --- race- and sitcom-related --- at the expense of sophistication and, more seriously, the advancement of minorities on series television. Weak punchlines come fast and furious, and so do plenty of off-color jokes that take this half-hour in the wrong direction. [18 Sept 2003, p.14]

It's leeringly sexual, ham-handed in its attempt to "confront" stereotypes, and just plain small-brained.