Critic Reviews

The show is a perfect balance of comedy and heart, and the performances are superior on every level. Micah Fowler, though: wow.

This show belongs to Driver. ... She’s a force--and a comic force, as she proved on “Will & Grace” and “About a Boy.”

The briskly paced humor is delightfully irreverent, taking aim at PC posturing and entitlements of all kinds.

This is the best network comedy of the season (yes, that's a caveat), with its deceptively easy balance of heart and snark.

In fact, all of the performances are winning, with Driver deserving most of the praise. ... Speechless is shaping up to be one of the fall’s best comedies.

This self-aware, quick-witted and altogether engrossing comedy is actively anti-tokenism, mocking the very conceit that it even could be by putting the focus on Ray instead of J.J. and cleverly jabbing at those who fight for inclusion without caring to connect with the included.

Speechless isn’t just another sweet family comedy. It’s a very, very funny one, too.

There are hundreds of family sitcoms out there, but with empathetic (and very funny) characters at its heart, Speechless is already a standout.

This is one of those rare pilots that lends about the same comedic weight to every main character (and a good deal of the supporting cast, as well).

Speechless [is] easily the best of the new network sitcoms. ... It's a sweet, skillful and sometimes poignant performance [from Micah Fowler, who plays J.J.]. ... Driver shines, charms and appropriately horrifies.