We Are Men: Season 1 (2013)
Average Rating: 3.1/10
Reviews Counted: 21
Fresh: 1 | Rotten: 20
We Are Men suffers from regressive bro humor and cliched midlife crisis jokes that are too shopworn to be enlivened by its talented cast.
Average Rating: 3/10
Critic Reviews: 12
Fresh: 1 | Rotten: 11
We Are Men suffers from regressive bro humor and cliched midlife crisis jokes that are too shopworn to be enlivened by its talented cast.
Season Info
Four single men bond at a short-term rental complex in this comedy series.
Network: CBS
Premiere Date: Sep 30, 2013
Cast
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Christopher Nicholas...
Carter -
Jerry O'Connell
Stuart -
Kal Penn
Gil -
Rebecca Breeds
Abby -
Tony Shalhoub
Frank
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Episodes
Pilot
Four single men bond at a short-term rental complex in this comedy series. In the premiere, a young newbie moves in after a broken engagement and is encouraged to wade back into the dating pool.
We Are Dognappers
Stuart's ex-wife offers to settle their divorce, but only if she can keep his cherished dog. Elsewhere, Gil's daughter cancels their camping trip; and Carter hopes to date Frank's daughter.
We Are One Night Stands
The guys crash a family reunion, leading to Carter's first one-night stand. Meanwhile, Stuart serves up cooking lessons to Gil.
Critic Reviews for We Are Men: Season 1
We Are Men protests too much. There's an off-putting melancholy underneath all the gallivanting.
Men... might be a little stung, a tiny bit outraged. They might begin to feel that comedy has turned against them.
Watching We Are Men made me feel stupid almost immediately and then bitter that I'd wasted the time.
The cast is certainly talented enough to overcome "We Are Men's" shortcomings, if the writing improves.
We're sure that legions of people will tune into anything starring Tony Shalhoub, but frankly, there have to be Monk reruns on somewhere that would be a better use of their time and energy.
What you're left with is a series that, while less repellent than the even-more-misogynistic Dads, is equally dull.
Its first half-hour comes and goes without providing any further reason to hang out with these guys.
Despite the proud nature of its title, and faced with that rather exacting challenge, these Men appear to lack the right stuff.
What [the characters] don't do: anything very funny.
We Are Men...didn't make me laugh. But it did inspire one strong feeling -- the urge to run.
It's a hodge-podge of mediocrity designed to go down like a chewy children's vitamin - with, of course, the underlying message that women are all soul-sucking demons designed to prevent men from having any fun.
Offensive male bonding comedy with stereotypes, sex talk.
While it's not the season's worst show, I'm fairly confident it's the season's worst waste of Tony Shalhoub, Kal Penn and Jerry O'Connell.
Men hits new lows in bromance abuse, cheapening the whole idea of "band of brothers" with its soggy account of male bonding at an apartment complex for jilted and/or unhappily divorced losers.
[More like] We Are Morons.
We Are Men... has a clever, expectation-defying opening scene before it devolves into a puddle of unfunny, midlife crisis cliches.
Maybe. Just maybe. Perhaps I'll watch more, and you should too, just to be sure. OK, no freakin' way. Just skip it.
The situations may be both implausible and familiar, but the characters' reactions are recognizably human and fresh. We Are Men is hardly sophisticated, but it's sufficiently grown up.
Tony Shalhoub, Jerry O'Connell, Kal Penn and Chris Smith star in this alleged comedy that arrives with a thud and shows no signs of becoming anything worth watching.
For a comedy, We Are Men is, in a word, sad.
I suppose a more honest title like We Are Sad Little Boys wouldn't be so easily green-lit.
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