❮ Sullivan & Son
Season 1
Season Premiere:
Jul 19, 2012
Metascore
Mixed or Average
48
User score
Mixed or Average
4.1
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Season Episodes
Top Cast
Metascore
Mixed or Average
48
13% Positive
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
67% Mixed
10 Reviews
10 Reviews
20% Negative
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
Jul 19, 2012
60
Plenty of material here, spoken by people we like. It's what a good cable sitcom can be.
User score
Mixed or Average
4.1
38% Positive
16 Ratings
16 Ratings
10% Mixed
4 Ratings
4 Ratings
52% Negative
22 Ratings
22 Ratings
Jul 18, 2014
10
I guess you either love this show or hate it, and I sure do love it! It always makes me laugh episode after episode and has some great guest stars throughout the seasons!
Aug 6, 2012
10
Wow, some really negative mean people on this site. I went to a taping of this, so I know that it's not a laugh track. I will say sometimes it sounds like a laugh track. But the episode I saw (hasn't aired yet) was hysterical and people were laughing. True, the first episode wasn't brilliant, but if you notice there are a lot of characters on this, so there was a lot of set-up. I feel that every episode is getting better than the last. And the actors are really good. Steve, the mom, the dad, the sister, his friends, his old flame, and the bar flies are all funny. What I like about is that it is a return to the old comedies. Many of the shows on today are cruel and mean, kind of like these reviewers comments, wonder why they don't like it. The people at the bar love each other, sure they might make fun of each other, but they do care about one another. The family dynamic is great. The diversity is great. And I for one, will keep watching, and so have millions of others. It might not be your cup of tea, but it isn't as bad as anyone claims. I've seen a lot of sitcoms that didn't make me laugh once. I'm laughing a lot at this one.
Jul 18, 2012
50
Sullivan & Son doesn't break any new ground, and you'll probably have a sense of deja vu all over again as it evokes "Cheers" and, more subtly, "Everybody Loves Raymond."
Jul 18, 2012
40
Dragon lady, cougar and feisty redhead; dutiful son, jealous daughter and henpecked husband are all present and accounted for, with pat and predictable jokes leeching whatever hope might be had from a racially diverse cast and a promising enough setup.
Jul 18, 2012
40
Sullivan & Son is a contrived sitcom with nothing original or new to offer.
Jul 19, 2012
30
Whether it's the unfunny, raunchy jokes, the acting, the writing, or the awful blocking, nothing in Sullivan & Son seems to jell. And no laugh track can change that.
Jul 18, 2012
16
Sullivan & Son is utterly artless in its efforts to be an equal opportunity offender.
Aug 17, 2012
9
This is a very good and funny TV show, you just need to give it a chance. A lot of people just watched the pilot episode and came to conclusions based on that. I think you'll need to watch at least 3-4 episodes before making a conclusion on it and I'm more than positive most people will like it and find it amusing like me once you do give it the chance. I wasn't too much of a fan of the pilot either although it was alright to me, but all the other episodes have been very good. This show has tons of potential and I hope TBS will renew a 2nd season.
Jun 16, 2013
4
Another failed attempt by TBS to make their own original comedy that's good. The jokes are funny, but they're one liners. Not just one or two one liners but EVERY DAMN JOKE!!! I swear, Vince Vaughn just pulled that crap from an old Reddit forum. The setting seems very similar to Cheers and overall, this show just ****.
Aug 14, 2014
3
I like the idea of the show, but the characters ruin it. I can count on one hand how many of the characters I actually think are realistic. It is insulting to call this a sitcom. A good sitcom does not have such forced "comedy" and terrible dialogue. They made way too many of the characters act in a stupid manner all of the time with really cheesy dialogue that is similar to the cheesiness of the new Disney shows. Jodi Long (plays Ok Cha) is seriously the only highlight because she is still so realistic in such a show of incredibly dumb characters.
Aug 27, 2012
3
I've seen two episodes and then skipped the rest. The entire setup feels dated, like you've seen it all before. None of the characters that get the spotlight are funny or even interesting. The main characters are sympathetic, but that's it. It's not a terrible show, but it's far from good. Just forget about it.
May 31, 2013
2
Sullivan and Son is a tired dinosaur (odd when considering this is a new show) whose plots are patched together from the most generic ideas and contrived ethnic jokes out there,things that may have been funny twenty years ago but now are just stale. Watching a few episodes of this show it felt like the writers were plumbing the archives of other sitcoms and liberated their rejected episode ideas to come up with the first season of this show. Not sure what executive at TBS thought this show would be a good idea, but clearly they're wrong.
