USA Today gave the show three-and-a-half stars out of four and called it, "one of the season's coolest, funniest and most genuinely offbeat treats." In her review for
The New York Times, Caryn James wrote, "With its meandering style, and its sense of wry comic absurdities rather than yuck-it-up one-liners, the series owes almost everything to
Richard Linklater's
Slacker (including their shared Austin setting). What it hasn't got from that film it owes to
Jim Jarmusch's work, especially
Stranger Than Paradise. But instead of seeming derivative,
Austin Stories comes across as a first-rate sequel, proof that this laid-back sensibility can thrive on television as well as in films." ==See also==