'Unhitched' is Alternately Slick & Soulless and Sloppy & Hammy

By Doug Wallen

Philadelphia Weekly | April 7, 2008

This would be the most repulsive Fox sitcom since The War at Home if not for healthy competition from Back to You and 'Til Death.

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Tags: FOX, TV, Unhitched

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