Family Tree: Season 1

"O'Dowd's hangdog charm is a good match for the story."

"The results contain both fart jokes and erudition, but not so much heart."

"While the look, feel, and deadpan comedic sensibility of the series is reminiscent of Best In Show, Waiting For Guffman, and A Mighty Wind, Family Tree is its own beast."

"Family Tree bears rather disappointing fruit, so droll and dry as to be nearly taste-free, with only the occasional hint of bite."

"Watch it, watch it, there's eight weeks of it. Hurrah!"

"Christopher Guest has made you a TV series. Thank him."

"You don't have to know Brit-coms to love Family Tree... For once, the U.S. and the U.K. are not two nations separated by somewhat different senses of humor."

"Family Tree may not measure up to the provocative or large scale fare crowding HBO's schedule - in fact, it feels deliberately homey and small - but its warmly pleasant to spend time with these characters."

"It's difficult not to draw comparisons to the creator's previous comedy ventures..."

"A sad, under-motivated nobody pointlessly - and not very credibly - indulging his random curiosity? It just didn't work."