| 88 |
New York Post Linda Stasi
"Daniel" is not that controversial, but is really pretty damned, oops, darned good. |
| 88 |
USA Today Robert Bianco
Witty, earnest, intelligent, overdone, overly ambitious, wildly entertaining and superbly cast. |
| 80 |
TV Guide Matt Roush
Darkly comedic and richly entertaining. |
| 75 |
Chicago Sun-Times Doug Elfman
A well-written and well-cast, if broadly drawn, show. |
| 75 |
Detroit Free Press Mike Duffy
An offbeat treat worth rooting for. |
| 75 |
New York Daily News David Hinckley
A program that gets stronger as we get to know its characters better, and the quality of the cast helps tremendously. |
| 70 |
Chicago Tribune Sid Smith
While the story and drama aren't always successful, and occasionally border on the cloying or trite, "Daniel" is something fresh, mildly provocative and amusingly performed. |
| 70 |
San Jose Mercury News Charlie McCollum
"The Book of Daniel" turns out to be something rare to network television these days. It is a rich family drama that isn't afraid of dealing with real issues in a real way and with humor, falling somewhere between "Six Feet Under" and the late, lamented "Once and Again." |
| 70 |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer Melanie McFarland
Borders on terrific at times and falters in others. |
| 70 |
Variety Brian Lowry
Whimsical and busy, "Daniel" is overly ambitious but highly watchable, with an interlocking web of smart-ass, squabbling but ultimately loving characters. |
| 70 |
Wall Street Journal Amy Finnerty
Thankfully, we are spared the misty earnestness of "Seventh Heaven." |
| 60 |
Hollywood Reporter Barry Garron
A well-intentioned drama with a few comedic quirks but without depth or greater purpose. |
| 60 |
Orlando Sentinel Hal Boedeker
The cast is heavenly in The Book of Daniel; the writing isn't. |
| 60 |
Time James Poniewozik
You may feel the faith-and-family themes could be handled better on cable--mainly because they have been. |
| 60 |
Village Voice Joy Press
It yearns to be an HBO-worthy drama that reckons with heady moral issues, but it can't resist the temptation of prime-time gloss and melodrama. |
| 60 |
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Rob Owen
It's disappointing that Kenny felt the need to make this series so far over the top, because at its core, there's a great family show worth watching. |
| 60 |
Newsday Diane Werts
Quinn radiates enough sincerity to make us keep reading this uneven book, just to see how it shapes up. |
| 60 |
Boston Globe Matthew Gilbert
These actors help save the show from pure whimsy and excess. |
| 50 |
San Francisco Chronicle Tim Goodman
This is a series that throws so much lunacy into the plotlines that even the writers on "Dynasty" must be hissing. |
| 50 |
Philadelphia Inquirer Jonathan Storm
The Book of Daniel is different and ambitious enough to bear watching at least for a little while. |
| 30 |
The New York Times Ned Martel
The real mark against "The Book of Daniel" is not any antipathy it might show toward the family or sympathy for the devil. The real objection is that it's just not very good. |
| 30 |
Los Angeles Times Robert Lloyd
Despite a fine cast... in the end it works neither as comedy, satire, drama nor soap opera. |
| 0 |
Washington Post Tom Shales
I cannot recall a series in which a greater number of characters seemed so desperately detestable -- a series with a larger population of loathsome dolts. There ought to be a worse punishment than cancellation for a show that tries this hard to be offensive and, even at that crass task, manages to fail. |
