Jerry Seinfeld returned to NBC last night with the highly anticipated debut of his reality/game show The Marriage Ref, but critics were largely unimpressed. A sampling of reviews:
- “The Marriage Ref is a mess,” concludes Adrian Chen on Gawker. It “falls into the reality show trap of making real relationships seem more contrived than anything the hackiest comedy writer could come up with. You have to pity the panel of legitimately funny people forced to dredge jokes out of relationships that are so poorly caricatured.”