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Oliver Beene
Season 1
18%
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The hilarious misadventures of an 11-year-old boy and his wacky family in 1962.
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Cast of Season 1
Grant Rosenmeyer
Oliver Beene
Grant Shaud
Jerry Beene
Wendy Makkena
Charlotte Beene
Andrew Lawrence
Ted Beene
Daveigh Chase
Joyce
Taylor Emerson
Michael
David Cross
Older Oliver Beene (voice)
Carter Bays
Producer
Oliver Beene • Season 1 Ratings & Reviews
Slate
Virginia Heffernan
Its laughs are few. But Wendy Makkena has had very good moments as Charlotte, and TV archivists should take note.
Chicago Tribune
Steve Johnson
The writing, in this series guided by Howard Gewirtz and Steven Levitan, isn't up to its surroundings.
Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
Scott D. Pierce
Autobiographical or not, Oliver Beene doesn't ring true -- it's just too mean-spirited to be believable.
Christian Science Monitor
M.S. Mason
Two parts Malcolm in the Middle, one part The Wonder Years, it's entirely tasteless and tedious.
Orlando Sentinel
Hal Boedeker
The filmed sitcom mercifully has neither a laugh track nor a studio audience. It does, unfortunately, have a cynical attitude and too often makes points by condescending to the 1960s.
New York Post
Austin Smith
Authenticity is not one of this show's strong points. Come to think of it, neither is good taste.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Rob Owen
Oliver Beene breaks no new comedic ground, but when its focus is on the children, it's an amusing half-hour.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Melanie McFarland
Once the show's idea of family settles into a semblance of cohesiveness, Oliver Beene may make a decent Sunday night staple. In its early stages, it doesn't quite inspire any glorious sense of wonder.
Washington Post
Tom Shales
Oliver Beene" isn't a TV show; it's a quilt -- something stitched together from scraps of other programs, old and new... Not the best elements of each, though; the worst.
Los Angeles Times
Howard Rosenberg
This is one of those series whose not-quite-sharp writing doesn't overcome its madcap style and bad casting choices.
South Florida Sun-Sentinel
Tom Jicha
Oliver Beene is sophomoric, loud and coarse. Its characters are stereotypes, in some cases offensive ones. Except for Oliver, not one of them is tolerable even in small doses.
Hartford Courant
Roger Catlin
The measure of cheese is clear from the use of yet another Lawrence youth as part of the family -- Andrew Lawrence, who is the one so obsessed with unhooking bras and embarrassing his kid brother (and us).
Baltimore Sun
David Zurawik
It isn't hard to figure out what Fox is trying to do with its new sitcom Oliver Beene: Create a companion for its hit series Malcolm in the Middle on Sunday nights. If only Oliver Beene had a shred of Malcolm's smarts.
Buffalo News
Alan Pergament
Though the narration can be, well, "fine," at times, Oliver Beene is rarely laugh out-loud funny, hardly revolutionary and it may make you cringe at times.
San Francisco Chronicle
Tim Goodman
You can get the random belly laugh from Oliver Beene and more than a few decent guffaws.
Newsday
Diane Werts
Queens kid recounts his 1960s childhood in cartoon style that even Cartoon Network would reject as stridently heavy-handed.
People Magazine
Terry Kelleher
Blatant imitation is so commonplace on TV that I can't get too upset with the makers of this strained sitcom for ripping off The Wonder Years. I just wish they'd done a better job of it.
New York Times
Alessandra Stanley
Shows set in the past, even harmless sitcoms, have an obligation to be somewhat historically accurate, a small price to pay for the bountiful possibilities offered by the past. The writers commit all kinds of minor anachronisms.
Variety
Phil Gallo
It's painfully derivative and equally unfunny.
Houston Chronicle
Ann Hodges
Been there, done that, Oliver Beene. And it's been better.
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