| 80 |
Miami Herald Glenn Garvin
Big Shots matches affecting characters with genuinely funny stories and dialogue. |
| 70 |
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Rob Owen
A light-hearted, comedic drama about four wealthy guys with women troubles and work problems. |
| 60 |
The New York Times Ginia Bellafante
One of television’s rare examples of successful farce. |
| 60 |
San Jose Mercury News Charlie McCollum
Shots has some potential. The leads - Michael Vartan ("Alias"), Dylan McDermott ("The Practice"), Joshua Malina ("The West Wing"), Christopher Titus ("Titus")--have chemistry, and there are some funny lines and situations. |
| 50 |
Detroit Free Press Mike Duffy
Big Shots isn't brilliant. And despite that attractive, well-matched male ensemble, the so-so series premiere lacks sufficient creative zing. |
| 50 |
New York Post Linda Stasi
Terrific cast, some fun, but overall the writing is often as dead as Walter. |
| 50 |
Variety Brian Lowry
Jon Harmon Feldman’s naughty script doesn’t develop much chemistry among the guys. |
| 40 |
Washington Post Tom Shales
Big Shots tries way too hard to be shocking and raunchy. The actors resemble kiddies at school trying to impress one another with the latest naughty word learned in gym class. |
| 40 |
Arizona Republic Randy Cordova
The hunk quotient is pretty high. But that doesn't overcome the fact that the show is dumb and uninvolving. |
| 38 |
Chicago Sun-Times Doug Elfman
It suffers from too much gloom and glam. |
| 37 |
USA Today Robert Bianco
The problem with Big Shots is that the men don't sound like anyone at all, male or female. |
| 30 |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer Melanie McFarland
We're all for handsome guys exploring their feminine side, but we want posters of them holding babies, not being them. |
| 30 |
Hollywood Reporter Barry Garron
When all is said and done, the series feels less like Wisteria Lane than "Stand By Me" channeled through Danielle Steel. |
| 25 |
San Francisco Chronicle Tim Goodman
The worst offense is that it seems to have been pitched as the male version of you-know-what without any real interest in speaking to the notion of what it means to be a man or, if you'd like, what men think, feel and say. |
| 12 |
New York Daily News David Hinckley
Big Shots is a big waste. |
| 10 |
Philadelphia Inquirer Jonathan Storm
There's nothing funny about tonight's Big Shots. |
| 10 |
Boston Globe Matthew Gilbert
Big Shots is an extremely unflattering showcase for these actors, particularly McDermott, whose overacting as the show’s bad boy puts the mug in smug. |
| 10 |
Chicago Tribune Maureen Ryan
It's just awful. |
| 10 |
Los Angeles Times Mary McNamara
Feldman has created a quartet of rich guys so insufferable, self-centered and whiny that they make the men of feminist masterwork "The Golden Notebook," or even "The Nanny Diaries," look positively heroic. |
| 10 |
Newark Star-Ledger Alan Sepinwall
Big Shots, an obnoxious waste of time that's likely the season's worst new show. |
| 0 |
Philadelphia Daily News Ellen Gray
I'd prefer you'd forget that one, and in coming years, I'll bet stars Dylan McDermott, Christopher Titus and Michael Vartan will hope to forget it, too. It's not worth your time or theirs. |
| 0 |
Newsday Diane Werts
No matter where the goofy "Desperate Housewives" goes, it's not into the toilet, which is where Big Shots spends its time both literally and figuratively. |
