| 80 |
Hollywood Reporter Barry Garron
Under Michael Dinner's steady directorial hand, it's dark, tense and conspiratorial, a far cry from the camp sci-fi tricks of its predecessor. |
| 80 |
Los Angeles Times Mary McNamara
It's not your mother's Bionic Woman. It's much, much better. |
| 80 |
Washington Post Tom Shales
NBC's lavish and splashy new version of Bionic Woman, is not, as one might fear, a BW stripped of everything that fans loved about the '70s original. |
| 80 |
Slate Troy Patterson
Sarah Corvus has arrived to haunt and to taunt, to give our plucky heroine a sinister contrast that the show can't do without. |
| 80 |
Miami Herald Glenn Garvin
Intelligent and entertaining reimaginations of stupefyingly bad pieces of 1970s sci-fi hackwork. |
| 80 |
Baltimore Sun David Zurawik
Just the right mix of camp, witchiness, special-effects and hand-to-hand combat. |
| 80 |
PopMatters Cynthia Fuchs
The girls, though, look promising. Granted, the initial Sarah-Jamie fight scene occasions the series’ first spectacular special-effectsy scene. |
| 75 |
Entertainment Weekly Gillian Flynn
Too much? Yes, too much! And yet, it's one of those moments you just have to shrug at and enjoy. |
| 70 |
Boston Globe Matthew Gilbert
A sleekly engaging pilot that, with the right character development, could turn into a sleekly engaging series. |
| 70 |
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Rob Owen
This Bionic Woman pilot is a downbeat drag, but buried somewhere beneath all the moping is an intriguing show that might yet emerge. |
| 70 |
Variety Brian Lowry
A little messy in its conception, the series still exhibits considerable potential--the kind that inspires checking out a second episode. |
| 70 |
Salon Heather Havrilesky
I also really enjoyed NBC's Bionic Woman. There's lots of super-powered action, I like regular-girl Michelle Ryan as Jaime Sommers, and best of all, Katee Sackhoff (Starbuck from "Battlestar Galactica") plays the eeeeevil former bionic woman, Sarah Corvus. |
| 60 |
Kansas City Star Aaron Barnhart
Like young Jaime, it's going to take awhile for this show to find its artificial legs. |
| 60 |
The New York Times Alessandra Stanley
NBC’s show, which is more about fembot martial arts and slick “Matrix”-ish special effects than about character development, is oriented toward young male viewers. |
| 60 |
New York Magazine John Leonard
The unnecessary reimagining from executive producer David Eick, is a lot darker than the 1976 original |
| 50 |
Detroit Free Press Mike Duffy
Despite her extreme makeover, this new Bionic Woman is mostly slick, dull and portentously sullen. |
| 50 |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer Melanie McFarland
Now we're back to Bionic Woman and Jaime Sommers--only under the surgical knife of executive producer David Eick, who had a hand in reshaping "Battlestar Galactica" to suit modern sensibilities, the rebuilt is wussier and darker than Wagner ever was. |
| 50 |
Chicago Tribune Maureen Ryan
Bionic Woman, the disappointingly average remake of the Lindsay Wagner vehicle from the ’70s, comes to life. |
| 50 |
San Francisco Chronicle Tim Goodman
Ryan seems too inert, not nearly aggressive enough for the role. |
| 50 |
Philadelphia Daily News Ellen Gray
There's a distinct "Alias" overtone to her initiation into the dark side of the force. If I'd liked "Alias," this might have me all excited. But I didn't, so I'm not. |
| 38 |
New York Daily News David Hinckley
It doesn't bode well for this series, however, that tonight's premiere features a magnetic, dynamic, no-nonsense female cyborg who steals every scene she's in--and it isn't Ryan as Jaime Sommers. |
| 38 |
New York Post Adam Buckman
This show is so cliched that it actually contains one of those scenes in which a camera makes a slow, 360-degree circle around Jaime as she gazes skyward. |
| 37 |
USA Today Robert Bianco
Alas, while it's fine to have a villain who is more colorful than your hero, it's not so fine to have a supporting actor who makes your star vanish whenever they're on screen together. It makes you think that what this remake of a spinoff really needs is a spinoff of its own. |
| 30 |
Newark Star-Ledger Alan Sepinwall
Jamie is our heroine, the one we're supposed to like and care about, but as played by British actress Ryan ("EastEnders," "Jekyll"), she's a mopey blank, badly upstaged every time Sackhoff makes one of her all-too-brief appearances as Corvus. |
| 30 |
Philadelphia Inquirer Jonathan Storm
The whole place could use more lights so you could see what was going on. |
| 25 |
Slant Magazine Brian Holcomb
This Bionic Woman does not fail to live up to the original, it fails to live up to all of the other programs it wants to emulate instead. |
| 20 |
Orlando Sentinel Hal Boedeker
Dim. Ryan is not to blame. Jaime, rebuilt after a horrific car accident, must live in a grim, punishing world and associate with joyless characters. Speedy Jaime can't outrun this train wreck. |
| 20 |
Newsday Diane Werts
NBC's new Bionic Woman remake is a desolate slab of ice where any resemblance to human beings - alive, dead or cyborgian--is purely coincidental. It's hard to imagine a bigger modernized mess being made |
