| 100 |
Christian Science Monitor Gloria Goodale
It's good, complicated drama, sometimes hard to watch, but more compelling evidence that the best storytelling for adults these days is on the small screen. |
| 100 |
Chicago Sun-Times Doug Elfman
"Day Break" asks viewers for faith, to believe unanswered questions will not go unanswered forever, and that every episode will be worth experiencing. For now, I'm willing to take that leap of faith, because the action is swift, the acting is taut and the premise is cool. |
| 80 |
Hollywood Reporter Barry Garron
It's a one-of-a-kind thriller that rewards your attention with nonstop action, endless surprises, exciting cinematography and a great assortment of characters. |
| 80 |
Miami Herald Glenn Garvin
Intense and fascinating. |
| 80 |
Philadelphia Inquirer Jonathan Storm
A well-made rocket ride that's closer to 24 than anything else on TV. |
| 75 |
New York Post Linda Stasi
Diggs is a very good actor. Attempting to pull off a complicated scenario like this would be tough for a vet, let alone someone who made his bones in musical theater. |
| 70 |
Newark Star-Ledger Alan Sepinwall
The thing is, if you can let go of the "Groundhog Taye" problem, it's a decent little thriller with a sci-fi twist. |
| 70 |
Kansas City Star Aaron Barnhart
After the nerve-jangling first episode, I predict you’ll be hooked. |
| 70 |
LA Weekly Robert Abele
Because Hopper can radically rejigger events for better or worse -- a decision that prevents one disaster might cause another - Day Break... feels like the first video-game-era series. |
| 70 |
Wall Street Journal Nancy DeWolf Smith
Following the show will require some effort for viewers accustomed to less demanding fare. |
| 70 |
The New York Times Alessandra Stanley
"Day Break" has enough suspense and clever turns to tempt viewers to stay and see how the next day breaks. |
| 67 |
Entertainment Weekly Gillian Flynn
At its best, Day Break has a Choose Your Own Adventure feel... [It] just needs to get those pages flying a little faster. |
| 60 |
Chicago Tribune Maureen Ryan
It may not be blessed with the most felicitous dialogue of all time, but “Day Break” is a solidly constructed and fast-paced drama. |
| 60 |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer Melanie McFarland
"Day Break" is an intricate, imaginative series designed to make you ask questions at every turn, but the killer will be, "What else is on?" |
| 60 |
Philadelphia Daily News Ellen Gray
As much fun as it might be for some of us to start our Wednesday nights watching a shirtless Taye Diggs get out of bed - just as it was once fun to watch Agents Mulder and Scully chase goblins and ghosties and things that go bump in the night - these TV conspiracies have a way of ending badly. |
| 50 |
Los Angeles Times Paul Brownfield
You begin to feel strung along on an errand whose complexities can't mask the fact that the main character isn't great company. |
| 50 |
Detroit Free Press Mike Duffy
Slick, predictably convoluted and pumped up on conspiratorial dread, "Day Break" may be a trifle late to the serial thriller party. |
| 50 |
USA Today Robert Bianco
Spend two hours tonight with this murky, muddled serial, and you may already feel as if you've been trapped in this day for an eternity. |
| 50 |
Washington Post Tom Shales
Intriguing and confounding though it is, this is anything but easy, funsy television. In fact, there are times when a viewer may feel he's being punished almost to the same degree as Detective Hopper. |
| 50 |
San Francisco Chronicle Tim Goodman
At some point, your head will explode. |
| 50 |
Variety Brian Lowry
There's a fine line between mysterious and just plain mystifying, and "Day Break" lurches over it. |
| 50 |
Slate Troy Patterson
Diggs has considerable magnetism, but it would take the charisma of a cult leader to disguise the fact that this show sometimes reads like a '70s conspiracy thriller as interpreted by the makers of Bad Boys II. |
| 40 |
Arizona Republic Bill Goodykoontz
And you thought Lost could be confusing. At least it doesn't give you a headache just thinking about it. |
| 40 |
Boston Globe Matthew Gilbert
"Day Break" doesn't quite work, not only because of its redundancies but because its story line becomes simultaneously convoluted and pointless. |
| 40 |
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Rob Owen
"Day Break" is both dark and frustrating. |
| 40 |
San Jose Mercury News Charlie McCollum
The upside to the series is that Diggs is good enough and the production slick enough that, for a while, you might be willing to play along the don't-think-too-hard-about-it premise.... [But] Hopper's day becomes pretty boring after a while. |
| 38 |
New York Daily News David Hinckley
They say insanity is performing the same action repeatedly and hoping for a different outcome. For ABC and "Day Break," insanity may be expecting viewers to watch the same day over and over and be interested in the infinite minor and major variations. |
| 20 |
TV Guide Matt Roush
The season's silliest new action-fantasy-adventure. |
