| 75 |
USA Today Robert Bianco
Sunday's two-hour premiere does a solid job of introducing an intriguing, if not exactly convincing, story and some appealing actors. |
| 75 |
Entertainment Weekly Jeff Jensen
With some fine-tuning and bolder steering, Drive could be one souped-up storytelling machine. |
| 75 |
People Weekly Tom Gliatto
This is Amazing Race of the damned, with something of the open-ended, Pandora's-box mystery of Lost, and it has the potential for out-there adventure. [23 Apr 2007, p.37] |
| 70 |
Time James Poniewozik
Drive is an audacious, exhilarating enough concept, and its pace and writing snappy enough, to make you want to believe. |
| 70 |
Miami Herald Glenn Garvin
With enough intrigue for a spy thriller and enough careening car chases to satisfy the most deranged Fast and Furious cultists, it's an action series that engages your brain as well as your clutch foot. |
| 70 |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer Melanie McFarland
This is TV sugar with an IQ and a pulse -- clever, revved-up, often funny, sometimes devastating. |
| 70 |
LA Weekly Robert Abele
Drive quickly asserts itself as an enjoyably diverting peel-out — brainless but not stupid, a well-stirred conspiracy/action mixture in keeping with Fox’s no-seat-belts hits 24 and Prison Break. |
| 70 |
Chicago Tribune Maureen Ryan
The kind of well-made brain candy that nearly demands that you watch it with a bowl of popcorn. |
| 63 |
New York Post Linda Stasi
All in all, brainless fun. |
| 60 |
Newark Star-Ledger Alan Sepinwall
The Sunday premiere has a nice mix of thrills, comedy and pathos, but is there a show here? |
| 60 |
Hollywood Reporter Ray Richmond
"Drive" is at once exasperating and mesmerizing, utterly ridiculous if you read too much into it but utterly beguiling on its face. |
| 60 |
Los Angeles Times Mary McNamara
Much of "Drive" is unabashedly derivative.... Much of it is also unbelievable... But two episodes in, it doesn't really matter. |
| 60 |
San Jose Mercury News Charlie McCollum
There's just enough punch to it that you'll want to stick around for Hour Two. |
| 60 |
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Rob Owen
It's TV for a generation of attention deficit disordered kids. |
| 50 |
Detroit Free Press Mike Duffy
With too many hints of recycled stock characters and formula thriller cliches, "Drive" sputters off the starting line. |
| 50 |
Newsday Diane Werts
"Drive" is less the sort of textured character study we've come to expect than an action-packed joy ride. That's not to say you won't wanna hop in. But it's hardly a journey you've gotta take. |
| 50 |
Philadelphia Daily News Ellen Gray
The first hour left me a bit cold, but the second, which arrived yesterday, filled in enough of the blanks to take me as far as Monday. |
| 50 |
TV Guide Matt Roush
As fast-paced as it is preposterous. |
| 40 |
Variety Brian Lowry
It's a fairly impressive cast (of characters, not cars), albeit one left skidding around on a rather slippery premise. |
| 40 |
Wall Street Journal Nancy DeWolf Smith
After just one episode, I was interested enough to make a mental note to watch the final one someday, just to see who won and what the race was all about. People with more time on their hands and a tolerance for utter implausibility may choose to make the whole journey. |
| 40 |
Philadelphia Inquirer Jonathan Storm
The twist ending of the first episode just might persuade remaining viewers to stick around for hour No. 2. |
| 38 |
New York Daily News David Hinckley
The plot strains credulity so much that even that action-happy audience might reject the show. |
| 30 |
Boston Globe Matthew Gilbert
No, "Drive" isn't awful... But the show still lacks the charisma that a serialized story requires to keep viewers coming back for more. |
| 30 |
Orlando Sentinel Hal Boedeker
Bad timing and bad taste damage Drive. No repair job can salvage this vehicle. |
| 25 |
Chicago Sun-Times Doug Elfman
At least "Lost" and "Heroes" give us a sci-fi excuse to forgive illogical stretches of the imagination. |
| 10 |
The New York Times Virginia Heffernan
It’s a television series as a prolonged [car] commercial, and it absolutely crosses the line. |
| 10 |
Washington Post Tom Shales
Muddled and befuddled from the outset, "Drive" represents a new kind of automotive hybrid -- a scripted treasure hunt designed to look like a reality show, well-stocked with the worst elements of both. It's basically "The Un-Amazing Race." |
