This is a great show but Season 7 and the switch to Fox changed things. I don't mind the new Mandy although Molly Ephraim was far better. The addition of Jen is annoying as hell. She's an absolutely terrible actress cut from the typical Nickelodeon mold. The writers try too hard to make her a replacement for Eve. It just doesn't work. I hope they write her out for season 8.
490 Reviews
Bring back Molly Ephraim
jessica-combs110 November 2018
Cast changes.
papermoon-2878419 January 2019
Big gaffe! Recasting Mandy. I know that Molly had taken another project when LMS was picked up by Fox, but someone should have written her into an opportunity to work in fashion in Europe and then gave her an offer she couldn't refuse to come back next season. I don't think you realize the comedic talent and timing she brought to the table. Now, no one was more surprised than I was that Mandy was responsible for the larger percentage of my laughs out loud. Her presence was delightful and cohesive. This show is the only one that I know I can sit down and laugh and be moved and not have to watch out for inappropriate content. Do you have any idea how relaxing and enjoyable that is for a conservative? There are very few programs that can do that. I have to tell you that this new Mandy is disruptive rather than cohesive. Get Molly back. Thanks, Patti
Different Mandy just not cutting it
tessravenhurst12 January 2019
Please remove Jen and Bring back the other Mandy
algerbryan16 March 2020
Great show, I love it. When it got canceled I was totally bummed. Obviously when I heard it was coming back I was stoked! However, Jen is just terrible and the new Mandy is absolutely annoying.
Use the other characters and ditch Jen and new Many, please!!!
Use the other characters and ditch Jen and new Many, please!!!
I'm a liberal and this is funny.
wyattlewis-844385 July 2019
I love this show!
annettewingo6 March 2020
Was A 10 Before The Cast Change
dskaff28 February 2020
I loved this show before it was foolishly cancelled. Now with the show back on, the casting director must have lost their mind.
1. New Mandy is horrible and more so doesn't fit the show at all. Old Mandy (Molly) is a fantastic actress and they should try to get her back.
2. The Asian girl...WHY? She is a terrible actress, adds nothing to the show, and just doesn't fit the continuity of the program.
3. Ok I understand the boy had to grow up a little but couldn't they have replaced him with someone that appears to be the same kid, only older?
It's sad that when a show hits that sweet spot of perfection they have this need to try to push it past that point instead of just enjoying and honing it as it is. Continually bringing in useless actresses and actors just send down cancelled road.
Almost perfect show!
Harlequin-Rose7 June 2020
This was a great find during quarantine. TiVo recorded two episodes a day so I had at least one great hour during lockdown weekdays.
I loved how the three sisters banter with one another. It seems far more realistic than the other TV shows where the siblings do nothing but fight or are cheesingly best friends.
I also love how the emphasis is on keeping the relationships going, as opposed to having the girls swap and change boyfriends every few episodes. Makes a difference from other annoying modern shows.
However... The new Mandy has wrecked it all.
The old Mandy is without a doubt one of the best characters ever written. She is quirky, funny, confident, sweet, loyal, and most important happy! She was a ray of sunshine, and made every scene better. Although her character was slightly egotistical, she was never condescending. She was well aware of her flaws and just ran with it. The actress turned the ditsy fool into the sweetest family member.
The new actress has taken this well defined character and turned her into a caricature. She is a self-serving, awfully condescending, and flat out mean brat with absolutely no relationship with the other characters. The marriage between Mandy and Kyle is no longer a relationship, it's barely even a friendship. Every scene with Mandy is now horribly uncomfortable. And frankly it has turned me off the show. Tim Allen's great lines don't even make up for it. The family has been ruined, and every scene I watch I now remember with sadness all the scenes that came before. I wish they'd simply written Mandy out of the show, and let the original actress come back whenever she could.
So my 8 stars are for the first 6 seasons.
0 stars from that point onwards.
Can't stand the new Mandy
mdbrief197717 November 2018
New actors for Mandy and son are not
jmlanzone14 June 2019
Loved, loved this show.... except the new season's Mandy completely changes the family dynamics. She just does not have the spark and feistiness needed to create some of the funny tension that used to exist. Better if the character had been written out of the show than to try this replacement.
You need the old Mandy
TracyK196230 September 2018
I love it!
gblack887 December 2011
Of course, it can be compared to Tim Allen's old show, but this is really fresh and Tim having to interact with girls instead of boys really puts him out of his element, and adds to the humor. Love Hector as the boss,(He was the best part of Pretty Woman). The girls are really starting to shine, especially the middle one, who is so clueless! I do agree with someone else, the youngest one is the most likable and best played. As far as Nancy Travis being weak, I disagree. She is nearly perfect as the sensible half of that marriage who is the calming influence. She has seen it all before and does not need to go over the top, that is Tim's job! (and still looks good in a pirate costume)
New Mandy is awful
nicole_egalli8 October 2018
Warning: Spoilers
I have watched this show since it began. I was fine with the replacement for Kristin after the first season, but this new Mandy is awful. Why would they go with a giant blonde?! The actress cast really doesn't give the same performance or bring the same feel to the character. I hope I can get past it to continue watching the show as I'm happy it's returned.
Miss original Mandy
Butterfly_flesh18 September 2019
I miss old Kristin
midnightcub13 May 2019
Everyone talks about the new Mandy. Yes I liked the old Mandy too. But the new Mandy is pretty great as well. No one talks about the old season 1 Kristen Alexandra Krosney. Her replacement was extremely unlikable and has only barely gotten better with time.
Love this show, so how can they.....
ktrawick10 September 2018
Warning: Spoilers
I love the original show with great, quirky characters. I want to know why on God's green earth are they replacing short, dark haired Mandy with a 5'10" blonde? Makes absolutely no sense! A 9" height difference is no small thing.
Loved this show but...
jakew-oneil29 September 2018
Love This Show
zombiemockingbird28 August 2019
I have watched it from the beginning and loved it. It's funny without being crude and stupid (like a lot of sit-coms these days), and all of the actors are great. Except this last season with the new Mandy. It's not just that I don't like change, because when they changed Kristen after Season 1 it was a great improvement. The first girl wasn't bad, Amanda Fuller is just 100 times better. This poor girl that replaced Molly Ephraim just isn't a good actress, and she and Kyle (Christoph Sanders) have absolutely no chemistry whatsoever; it's painful to watch.
Edit: I took off two stars, I have been re-watching this recently on Hulu, and although I still enjoy it overall, binge-watching it makes me realize how annoying Vanessa is. She's supposed to have a PhD, yet 90% of what she says and does is ridiculously stupid. She drinks like Dean Martin, is completely socially awkward, sounds brainless, pouts when she doesn't get her way, tries to control what everyone does, is painfully superficial and narcissistic, cries constantly over nothing and stalks her kids; she's a HORRIBLE mother. She's a psychopath, and it's painful and embarrassing to watch and listen to her. I find it hard to believe someone like Mike would actually be married to someone this ridiculous. She belongs in a Looney Tunes cartoon. The best characters in this show are Kyle, Ryan and Chuck.
Second Edit: Skip Season 9. The stories just get more tedious, boring and pointless with each episode. Mandy seems to have become the main focal point of the show and unfortunately her character is not and never has been all that great. Kyle was the only thing that made Mandy interesting and now she overshadows him completely. Also, I'm sure Molly McCook is a lovely person, but she just isn't a very good actress.
Edit: I took off two stars, I have been re-watching this recently on Hulu, and although I still enjoy it overall, binge-watching it makes me realize how annoying Vanessa is. She's supposed to have a PhD, yet 90% of what she says and does is ridiculously stupid. She drinks like Dean Martin, is completely socially awkward, sounds brainless, pouts when she doesn't get her way, tries to control what everyone does, is painfully superficial and narcissistic, cries constantly over nothing and stalks her kids; she's a HORRIBLE mother. She's a psychopath, and it's painful and embarrassing to watch and listen to her. I find it hard to believe someone like Mike would actually be married to someone this ridiculous. She belongs in a Looney Tunes cartoon. The best characters in this show are Kyle, Ryan and Chuck.
Second Edit: Skip Season 9. The stories just get more tedious, boring and pointless with each episode. Mandy seems to have become the main focal point of the show and unfortunately her character is not and never has been all that great. Kyle was the only thing that made Mandy interesting and now she overshadows him completely. Also, I'm sure Molly McCook is a lovely person, but she just isn't a very good actress.
Downhill from season 5
AngryKefir6 January 2021
The 1st four seasons were brilliant!
I've lost interest in the middle/end of season 5.
Watched frequently loose episodes till season 8 and there have been made too many changes who made this very dull for me.
Every move and sentence of Kyle's character is predictable and absolutely not funny anymore. The "new" Mandy is just portrait dumb. Chuck Larabee became just an unintersting yea-sayer. Jay Leno can't act, is just annoying and the new so called Chinese/Hong-Kong teenager in the show, who is (allegedly) born and raised in Asia, speaks perfect English without any kind of error in grammar. That's (for me) not just unbelievable, it seems she also is just in for the quote of races to show off and to bring in new young blood into the household. But this backfired to the costs of the show.
8 season I understand why
carlodegraaff6 September 2021
Boo on ABC
callen5713-428-8287915 May 2017
Canceling the show is a big mistake on ABCs part. One show...one conservative show out of your nightly repertoire would have you running for you safe space hoping to find someone with a safety pin! Tim Allen does a great job as usual, and brings levity to a house full of girls! You will be misses!
Great show ending in a fizzle
Vatsugladnar27 March 2021
Good thing this is the last season. The once edgy, hilarious show has caved to the woke masses. It doesn't help that the change of the daughters actors, the loss of Eve almost entirely, and the need to cater to the woke crowd has made this last season almost impossible to watch.
Eve leaving and the recast of Mandy are probably the two most disappointing issues for me anyway. The inter-sibling banter always kept it relevant. But this season it is no longer an escape and funny show, but rather seems to have to constantly deal with too many current events in order to leave some kind of mark on it viewership, rather than just letting people laugh. Sad end to a show that had one of the best first 6 seasons of all time.
Eve leaving and the recast of Mandy are probably the two most disappointing issues for me anyway. The inter-sibling banter always kept it relevant. But this season it is no longer an escape and funny show, but rather seems to have to constantly deal with too many current events in order to leave some kind of mark on it viewership, rather than just letting people laugh. Sad end to a show that had one of the best first 6 seasons of all time.
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