4/04/14 10:00PM
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In an age of ambitious, sometimes pretentious TV, Raising Hope never made any grand promises, but over the course of…
Reviews - Raising Hope
3/28/14 10:30PM
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Well-worn sitcom tropes being what they are, it’s sort of amazing that it’s taken this long for Raising Hope to do…
3/21/14 10:45PM
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“Para-Natesville Activity” benefits from appearances by two friends of the show: Mike O’Malley as Jimmy, the guy who…
3/14/14 10:35PM
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With a month to go before it ambles off the air for good, Raising Hope may never again produce an episode as…
3/07/14 10:35PM
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“Seeing what a good father you are is what made me fall in love with you,” Sabrina tells Jimmy toward the end of…
2/28/14 11:00PM
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The commercials for the new Cosmos that thread through this episode tend to put a viewer in a cosmic state of mind,…
2/07/14 10:30PM
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If ever there was a half hour of TV comedy that I wish I could disqualify myself from rating, it’s this episode.…
1/31/14 11:15PM
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Raising Hope has pretty much lost any grounding it had in real life and anything else connected to actual human…
1/24/14 10:00PM
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Tonight, Molly Shannon returns as the passive-aggressive entrepreneur Maxine, and Barney steps up to court her. I…
1/17/14 10:00PM
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Stephen Root was on this show once, remember? He played Sabrina’s father, which you might think of as a role that…
1/10/14 11:20PM
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This episode is distinguished by the welcome return of Amy Sedaris as Virginia’s hated cousin Delilah. Delilah…
12/13/13 10:15PM
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12/06/13 10:45PM
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11/29/13 11:45PM
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I’ve always liked this show, and I’m rooting for it to continue to prosper in the absence of creator Greg Garcia.…
11/22/13 9:00PM
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11/15/13 9:00PM
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The question hanging over the heads of Raising Hope fans all summer has been, how will the show—in what many…
11/14/13 12:00AM
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Since 2007, TV Club has dissected television episode by episode. Beginning this September, The A.V. Club will also…
3/28/13 9:00PM
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Last January, Fox decided that the thought of airing one more episode of the sweet, funny Ben And Kate was so…
2/19/13 9:15PM
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“Arbor Daze” is a remarkably sweet testament to the power of a loving family, and a surprisingly thoughtful…
2/05/13 10:45PM
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I suppose it’s just a coincidence, but when circumstances resulted in these two episodes—the first of them the…