EPISODE
SEASON
House of Payne - Season 1
A multi-generational family lives together under one roof.
16 March 1994
26 October 1968, Charleston, South Carolina, USA
14 March 1961, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
12 September 1963, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
5 July 1963, Lompoc, California, USA
24 January 1968, Kingston, Jamaica
October 21, 2019
[Tyler] Perry has lots of fans, but even his alter-ego Madea couldn't infuse enough life into the mediocre House of Payne to make it stand out from the crowd. House
October 21, 2019
There's undeniable talent among the cast, but the characters are flat, the stories are weak, and the humor gets repetitive and predictable.
October 21, 2019
[Tyler] Perry's best work comes when he's willing to render his morality tales with a dash of absurdity. So why, when he's working in the most conventional comedic format of all, is he afraid to make people laugh?
October 21, 2019
Overall, though, the comedy is barely up to the standards of the old UPN sitcoms from back in the day, and the attempts at social commentary fail across the board.
October 22, 2019
House of Payne is a painful half-hour.
May 09, 2006
Perry should unleash Madea on the Payne household. They could use the laugh.
October 21, 2019
Let's get right down to the nub. Tyler Perry's House of Payne is a torture rack.
October 21, 2019
It's got some laugh-out-loud comedy, but it's not for everyone.
October 21, 2019
[House of Payne] doesn't sound very funny but, in the hands of this cast, it is.
October 21, 2019
How he got the cabler to pony up for 100 episodes of such an uncharacteristically unfunny sitcom as House of Payne is worthy of a sitcom on its own.
October 22, 2019
Unfortunately, he's [Tyler Perry] not shying away from the kinds of situations and characters that in the years since the Bunkers left that house in Queens, N.Y., have become cliches.
October 21, 2019
[Tyler Perry's] narrative aimlessness, and languorous pacing, set, incongruously, against a laugh track, suggest a shaky command of his larger purpose.