King of the Hill has a peculiar way of drawing you in. It looks as if the Hills live in a normal world, but they don't quite. It's skewed.

Full Review | Jul 30, 2025

What the show lacks in technical expertise it more than makes up for with some of the most savagely on-target human caricatures in recent memory.

Full Review | Jul 30, 2025

A surprisingly sweet, frequently funny show. These animated characters from B&B creator Mike Judge and The Simpsons producer Greg Daniels are real people, and that Boomhauser person is a real riot.

Full Review | Jul 30, 2025

The funniest new show of this TV season and Fox's intentionally funniest show since The Adventures of Brisco County Jr. debuted in 1993.

Full Review | Jul 30, 2025

King of the Hill is a giant step up on the political-satire ladder for Judge. He has gone from the sophomoric humor of [Beavis and Butthead] to a junior, or perhaps senior, level.

Full Review | Jul 30, 2025

This show borrows so much from its animated predecessors that it's hard to see anything new. One keeps waiting for Homer to show up at the door, or for Bobby to come home with Beavis.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 30, 2025

If you can't recognize yourself somewhere among the cast of characters, then certainly you know folks in their spitting image. If you don't, you ought to get out more.

Full Review | Jul 30, 2025

This working-class comedy may, admittedly, but unfunny and unremarkable-looking to many viewers whose lifestyle it approximates. But this deliciously sharp-eyed parody of the beer-and-pickup-truck subculture will be irresistible to others.

Full Review | Jul 30, 2025

I'm finding King of the Hill the happiest surprise of the season. And I'm wondering why it is that these cartoon characters seem so much more real than most sitcom characters portrayed by living, breathing actors.

Full Review | Jul 30, 2025

Beneath all the satire, King of the Hill is a love poem to the all-American dad. It's subversively different.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 30, 2025

The Hills are not exactly rocket scientists but, with the possible exception of Bobby, they're not idiots. And they're lovable, in a pathetic sort of way. People will find themselves laughing with and at them.

Full Review | Jul 30, 2025

It is too inconsistent, and in need of some pluck, but the laughs are there. None of the Texas family and friends that Judge has come up with are exactly pleasing to the eye, though.

Full Review | Jul 30, 2025

Another buddy, Boomhauer, speaks mostly Southern-flavored nonsense. This show has a voice, however, that the public should understand and appreciate. The animation might look primitive, but the comedy is clever.

Full Review | Jul 30, 2025

King of the Hill is a pleasure to listen to, refreshingly free of easy laugh lines or catch phrases. And Hank's deadpan delivery (supplied by Judge himself) elevates just about anything coming out of his mouth.

Full Review | Apr 6, 2021

I am addicted.

Full Review | Sep 29, 2020

Some of "King of the Hill," set in a small Texas town, was subversively funny; but parts of it just seemed strange. Still, all of it seemed different enough and quirky enough to make me want to see more episodes.

Full Review | Aug 27, 2019

"Hill" is a pleasant surprise, touching and winsome and deliciously sly.

Full Review | Aug 27, 2019

A fine, nuanced portrait of a middle-class Texas family that also happens to be a cartoon from the man who gave us Beavis and Butt-head, King Of The Hill is both extremely funny and intelligent.

Full Review | Original Score: B+ | Aug 27, 2019

Its simplicity bolsters the show's ambling tone, which could be a welcome sedative on Sunday evenings and may eventually be what football fans appreciate after the afternoon rush.

Full Review | Sep 20, 2018

King of the Hill, about a lower-middle-class family in a Texas suburb, is harmless and pointless.

Full Review | Original Score: C | Sep 19, 2018