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80By the second episode, 1600 Penn neatly has found its compass on how to be a show about the first family and how to define the ensemble.
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751600 Penn may not be as sophisticated as the hysterical HBO series "Veep," but it's still pretty funny when all the cylinders are firing.
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70Then the second episode, and then the third, come along, and 1600 Penn evolves into a surprisingly likable single-camera comedy.
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701600 Penn has the unfortunate habit of milking every joke, even the most artificial and obvious ones. And its absurdist humor is hit-or-miss at best. And yet it has an undeniable charm, however superficial and ingratiating.
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67Like many a new comedy--and new presidential administration--it needs a little time to get settled in before we can expect it to really make its mark.
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67The series starts wobbly but improves with each of the episodes [seen so far]. [21 Dec 2012, p.62]
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63Loud and silly as it is, the show also manages to create and define its characters skillfully.
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60When Skip is used more as a garnish and not the focus, his character is less annoying and more amusing.
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58Your enjoyment of the show will hinge on how much you can stomach the antics of the First Screw-Up.
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50It's not that these are shoddily crafted personalities, it's that their predicaments have been done to death, and frankly, executed with much more thoughtfulness on other shows.
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50Problem is in 1600 Penn they are shooting for "Animal House" in the White House but too often end up with nobody home.
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50As funny as 1600 Penn can be, after a while the laughs grow fewer and further between. And the misfires are more frequent and painful.
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50The set-in-the-White House comedy starts off more annoying than funny in its Monday debut, overwhelmed by a single character, first son Skip (Josh Gad), a perennial college student and first-class screwup. Over the next couple of episodes the show becomes a little less grating and, occasionally, mildly amusing.
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50The series doesn't generate nearly enough highlights to merit a filibuster-proof yea vote, much less a ticker-tape parade.
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42There's nothing to get outraged about, unless you want to rail against substandard comedy.
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42This is a very good cast laboring through terribly weak material.
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40[Josh Gad's] an adroit actor, and his breathy, singsongy way with Skip feels original, until it feels tiring--as that there's just a lot of him here. He obscures the view, or becomes it, and he can make the rest of the show seem sort of beside the point.
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30The show is "clever" in a way that makes me mourn how far standards of cleverness have fallen. If it's the best new comedy that NBC has in the pipeline, the network is in more trouble than anyone knew.