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10 Items Or Less
SERIES: TBS, Monday 11:00p (30 minutes)


5.7

based on 13 reviews
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Starring John Lehr, Kirsten Gronfield, Roberta Valderrama, Chris Payne, Robert Clendenin, Christopher Liam, Greg Davis Jr., and Jennifer Elise Cox

This mostly-improvised workplace comedy is set in an Ohio grocery store.

GENRE(S):	Comedy
CREATED BY:	John Lehr
FIRST AIR DATE:	November 27, 2006

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...

Christian Science Monitor Gloria Goodale

"Items" is like NBC's "The Office" on laughing gas - the same kind of poker-faced dysfunction in a crushingly ordinary setting, but faster and funnier.

Philadelphia Inquirer Jonathan Storm

10 Items or Less is a quick hit of inanity, as close to The Office as anything else.

Entertainment Weekly Hannah Tucker

It's as much miss as hit. [1 Dec 2006, p.75]

Hollywood Reporter Barry Garron

There are no deep belly laughs here but you can count on a steady stream of chuckles, more from the characters than the situations.

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Rob Owen

"10 Items" isn't a great comedy yet, but it often takes time.

Los Angeles Times Paul Brownfield

The show, in its way, is too slight to be totally fulfilling, tending to collapse into slapstick, but it can get by on moments.

San Jose Mercury News Charlie McCollum

While you have to give them credit for trying something at least a little different, the creators and cast try way too hard to pull laughs out of the situation and the show comes off as forced and unbelievable.

TV Guide Matt Roush

It's partially improvised, which comes off looking like they're having more fun than we are.

New York Post Adam Buckman

The improvisations are sometimes so forced that I swear you can actually see the actors thinking about what to say next.

Orlando Sentinel Hal Boedeker

Most of the time, [Lehr] and the show are insufferable.

Variety Brian Lowry

"10 Items or Less" labors too hard at being clever and occasionally teeters into shrill mode where a half-dozen characters are all yelling at each other simultaneously.

Washington Post Tom Shales

Bluntly put, neither the writers nor the actors are good enough at what they're trying to do to justify trying to do it. They'd all be better off making "10 Items" a traditional scripted show, because then it would stand a better chance of making sense.

Miami Herald Glenn Garvin

Yet another doomed and dreadful attempt to bring improv comedy to television.

The average user rating for this tv show is 5.7 (out of 10) based on 24 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Becky B gave it a9:
I think it has a wonderful thing going for it: There are no new episodes of anything else on...at all...anywhere. Even if it's ripping off The Office, I'm so hungry for something new and vaguely amusing that this is looking good to me. I'm sure that it will blend into the bleak background when the strike is resolved. But until then God Bless Greens & Grains.

Blatantly U. gave it a0:
I watched an entire episode, to be able to say that I did. Wow. No laughing, no chuckles, not really even a smile. I'm surprised anyone could compare it to The Office, which is hilarious. This show is not. It's not even just odd humor, it's just no humor.

Andrew S gave it a6:
The series isn't too bad. It has a touch of Arrested Development in it, but all contained within a food mart.

Jackie E gave it a10:
I love this show. I think it is so hilareous. I dont know if it is because i work for a grocery store my self but i think this show is great and you guys should keep with more episodes. PLS!!!!!

said b gave it a10:
I think it might need time some episodes are ok

Kent S gave it a9:
Great parody of sometimes conservative and new age ideas. Jesus on the wall was a great episode.

Jen F gave it a1:
Cringe-inducingly awful. They really should have thought this out more. Just bad all around.

10 Items Or Less SERIES: TBS, Monday 11:00p (30 minutes)

10 Items Or Less
SERIES: TBS, Monday 11:00p (30 minutes)