on review aggregation rotten tomatoes, the series has an approval rating of 94% based on 34 reviews, with an average rating of 7.66/10. the website's critical consensus reads, ""grown-ish" quickly works through its growing pains to establish itself as its own socially aware show with a fresh perspective on the college experience, driven by the charming and capable yara shahidi." metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned a score of 71 out of 100, based on 15 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".