It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.

Simple and well acted, it has tension enough to knot the stomach.

Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

Just intense enough to provide a much-needed diversion, just lightweight enough to make you forget about it soon after it’s over. It’s not exactly “good,” per se, but it does what it sets out to do in terms of putting us on edge, which makes it … successful?

This show is so bad that it will be hard to point out all the horrible points in the IMDb character limit.First of all, it's just not funny.In the first episode the only "jokes" that were close to funny were referencing decades old pop culture.One daughter told the other to stop dressing like Daria.No one under 50 knows who that is.But this show is all clichés.One slutty daughter and one nerdy daughter?Haven't seen that for almost a week.I won't point out the dozens of shows who have done that because if you don't know, you can't be helped.This show is another Patrick Warburton tragedy.He was great as a side character but no one with funny jokes would ever make him a star.A squinting retard with a silly haircut is not what anyone wants to see.Even if the show was funny, he's too hard to take.To top it off, the grandparents are the least realistic characters ever.I could say tons more but here's reality...it's a 10 o'clock sitcom.Ever hear of those?No, because they don't work.This show was dead on arrival.

Mike (Patrick Warburton) and Martina Moore (Carrie Preston) have to put aside their hopes of an empty nest. Their daughters are returning home. Stella (Mia Serafino) is the party girl. Shea (Miranda Cosgrove) is the nerdy science grad who can't find a job. Mike's father Bob (Stacy Keach) and his stepmother Alice (Carlease Burke) decide not to go to Florida. Alice's son Ethan (Clifford McGhee) returns home after losing his money.I really love Warburton and Preston as individual actors. There are some good actors here but the material is mostly weak. The style is old network sitcom with some sexual subject matters. It doesn't add up to anything that funny or interesting. It feels bland and old. I would rather this talented cast split up and find better material.

By episode four, this new show starring Patrick Warburton (as father of the family, Mike Moore) is coming into focus. If you like Warburton's comedic styling, you will probably like this show. He will remind you of David Puddy from "Seinfeld", but Mike is not as dim-witted. Carrie Preston plays his wife, Martina. And the two millennial daughters who simultaneously return to the household to nest are Stella (Mia Serafino) and Shea (Miranda Cosgrove).But the family doesn't end there. Stacy Keach is Mike's father, Bob--a hard-nosed retired detective. His wife Alice is played by Carlease Burke. And Clifford McGhee plays Alice's son, Ethan. Though there is the occasional joke about the adult child returning home, the episodes do not focus on that topic. Actually, they are still laying the groundwork in the first four episodes. But the relationships are beginning to develop and more laugh out loud moments are occurring.At this point, I will grade this show a "7", hoping that the writers can get into a groove as the Moores become more like family to viewers. When I consider that another well-written show, "Modern Family", relies upon its well-defined characters for its hilarity, I know that "Crowded" can possibly achieve similar results.The two daughters, who might remind you of the daughters on "Modern Family", need to become more central to the focus of this show. There is untapped potential there.

2 very funny lead characters in a not so funny written show.The actors who play the daughters and grandmother SUCK! Patrick is better than the script provided. He is the only reason me and my husband decided to watch the show. The lead female isn't ready for the lead and I hate that, because I loved her in true blood and the good wife. We have hung on the past 2-3 episodes hoping it gets better.....it's not happening soon enough for us. :(Someone needs to revamp the script writers and change up the actors before we lose the opportunity to see patrick shine in another show.