SummaryA court order brings high profile attorney Allen Braddock (Kelsey Grammer) in contact with Marcus Jackson (Martin Lawrence), a recently divorced lawyer who works mainly pro-bono cases.
Created By:Robert L. Boyett, Robert Horn
Partners (2014)
Season 1 Premiere:
2014
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44
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4.6
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27% Negative
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Aug 4, 2014
100
The joy here is watching Grammer and Lawrence trade barbs (and there are a bunch of them).
Aug 4, 2014
60
While Jackson will feel some genuine hesitation and wariness about Grammer's pit-bull personality, it doesn’t feel yet like the chemistry between the actors has fully developed.
Aug 1, 2014
50
There is great chemistry between old pros Lawrence and Grammer, even if the scripts are spotty and feel about 20 years old, same-sex marriage references notwithstanding.
Aug 1, 2014
50
Kelsey Grammer gives his pompous-windbag act another whirl, this time opposite Martin Lawrence on the predictably old-school comedy Partners.
Aug 1, 2014
40
The goal of establishing them as a mismatched pair in the pilot (written and run by sitcom veterans Robert L. Boyett and Robert Horn), as well as a subsequent episode, proves stale and weakly defined from the get-go.
Aug 19, 2014
25
Some of the jokes are criminally bad, the supporting characters are tired tropes, and Lawrence seems to be dialing it in.
Aug 4, 2014
0
Get past the genuine awfulness of this--and it is awful--and a strange melancholy begins to settle in.
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38% Positive
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9 Ratings
9 Ratings
Apr 29, 2025
10
I dislike that they canceled this show; it was excellent. I just watched all 10 episodes on Peacock. I wasn’t aware of the show in 2014, but I would have really enjoyed seeing both Martin Lawrence and Kelsey Grammer together in a sitcom. They performed wonderfully on this show, and I hope it returns.
