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- Peacock
- Jan 11, 2024
- Peacock
- Jan 11, 2024
Summary Set in 1993, Ted the bear (voiced by (Seth MacFarlane) is living in Massachusetts with his best friend, 16-year-old John Bennett (Max Burkholder) and his family in the prequel comedy series.
Created By: Seth MacFarlane
- Peacock
- Jan 11, 2024
- Peacock
- Jan 11, 2024
Summary Set in 1993, Ted the bear (voiced by (Seth MacFarlane) is living in Massachusetts with his best friend, 16-year-old John Bennett (Max Burkholder) and his family in the prequel comedy series.
Created By: Seth MacFarlane
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 18 Critic Reviews
51
22% Positive
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
67% Mixed
12 Reviews
12 Reviews
11% Negative
2 Reviews
2 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.
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.
The seven-episode Peacock miniseries is the ultimate "Now That's What I Call MacFarlane" mixtape cassette of all his familiar sitcom-styled bits recycled in another '90s nostalgia fest package of wavering quality.
Every so often, one of MacFarlane’s extended runners will click, or Ted’s sheer enthusiasm for a stupid idea proves infectious. But any chuckles brought out by the series feel like the kind of comedy you come up with out of sheer boredom.
Ted had the potential to be a heartwarming show with good coming-of-age stories — at least as heartwarming as a show about a pot-smoking, cursing, bigoted teddy bear could muster — but the episodes are drawn out by Seth MacFarlane-style gags to the point where we got bored.
Ted sets the scene in an introductory voice-over, saying that he was once a media sensation but “like every phenomenon, eventually nobody gives a s--t”. Which is exactly how you should feel about this series.