Mixed reviews

There was a lot of love, some boos and some headscratching over the HBO premiere of FOTC. Bloggers, in general, loved the show. The professional TV critics? They were all over the board. Here's what the mainstream media critics are saying:

Tom Jicha of the Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel hated the show. Reading his review, though, one wonders if he actually watched the show. He says that Jemaine picks up a gorgeous girl at a club. A club? Not sure how you would mistake Dave's apartment for a club.

Mike Duffy of the Detroit Free Press called the premiere "TV’s most original and irresistible new comic concoction."

Matthew Gilbert of the Boston Globe liked the premiere but wonders if the writers can sustain the laughs over 12 episodes, or whether the gags will start getting redundant.

Tom Shales of the Washington Post gave the show his nod of approval. Shales wrote: "Flight of the Conchords" might not have you slapping a knee in hysterics, but it may well cause contented chortling inside -- the kind of laughter that's probably good for the soul, good for the digestion and, in this case, good TV."

Preston Jones of the Star-Telegram hopes that viewers hang in long enough for the show to get its footing.

Glenn Garvin of the Miami Herald says the show's gags just don't work. Garvin wrote: "This can be dryly funny in small doses, but Conchords really feels less like a sitcom than a Saturday Night Live sketch stretched out to about six times its shelf-life."

Meanwhile, most bloggers, at least the ones who showed up at the top of the google search, loved the show:

Mikey Likes TV was pleasantly surprised . . . Piece of Shep thought the show was fantastic . . . Mog called the show brilliant . . . Rumblestrip was laughing so hard his wife thought the neighbors were going to call the cops