Me, Myself and I is not failing critically or commercially (yet), but it is not thriving either. Now in its second week, the ratings fell by 0.6 to land at 1.0 for A18-49. In online reviews, it received a lukewarm 62% on Rotten Tomatoes’ Tomatometer.

While the show certainly went through the pains of achieving the three-tiered narrative between young, middle-aged, and old Alex, as described in its logline, critics lamented that the structure did nothing to enhance the story. In fact, The Hollywood Reporter criticized Kopelman for even including the future, as he lacked the vision or insight to execute it. More than one critic described the show as a failed attempt to replicate NBC’s This Is Us, which also toggles between decades, albeit much more purposefully and successfully. Me, Myself and I’s problem is not that it failed to live to its logline, but that it only lived up to its logline.