Critic Reviews

Overall, "Ted" is a hilarious expansion of Seth MacFarlane's ribald comedy franchise. In fact, even though the bar has never been set consistently high in this department, "Ted" just might be one of the best TV adaptations of a movie that's ever been done.

Season 2 proves that Ted isn't just a one-trick bear and the rest of the Bennett family can pull their comedy and emotional weight.

"Ted” hews toward a ‘90s comedic sensibility that’s not merely nostalgic but seeks to tap into the inner teenager that some of us never entirely outgrow. That might not qualify as high art, but in its unpretentious silliness, this Peacock comedy is still more than bear-able.

The carpet-bombed gags don’t always hit, but when they do their cleverness resonates, especially for those of us who were alive and consuming culture in the series’ early-Nineties timeframe.

Ted Season 2 ends this chapter of the franchise on a high note, with its big laughs, hidden sweetness, and all the crude, filthy, and ruthless jokes that you could want.

Earns quite a few more chuckles than its big-screen counterparts.

Even with only seven episodes, the Ted series does start to wear out its welcome, with the storytelling becoming repetitive and predictable. While it is never boring by any means, one season may have been enough. There's only so much you can do with a franchise about a cursing, pot-smoking teddy bear who lives in Boston before it becomes tired.

Unfortunately, it doesn’t bring much new to the table, and at just seven episodes, Ted falls short of mustering up the longevity of the kind of ‘90s sitcoms it’s clearly lampooning.

Sadly, the sheer coarseness of the humour knocks the stuffing out of Ted and makes it a missed opportunity.

Ted is definitely more watchable in Season 2, more interested in character and story than it was in Season 1. But we just wish that, while Ted himself is pretty irredeemable, we got more growth out of John rather than just a series of gross shennanigans.