| 90 |
Kansas City Star Aaron Barnhart
Hilarious, delightful and smart... "Eureka" may have the gumption to become the best sci-fi show since the late lamented “Farscape.” |
| 80 |
Orlando Sentinel Hal Boedeker
Eureka is neither as charming as Northern Exposure nor as sinister as Twin Peaks. Whatever it lacks in originality, Eureka still represents an oasis in this reality-infested summer. |
| 75 |
Detroit Free Press Mike Duffy
"Eureka" is clever paranormal escapism that sometimes teeters on the edge of whimsical excess. But that doesn't mean you won't find plenty of affable, oddball entertainment. |
| 75 |
New York Daily News David Hinckley
"Eureka" is the sort of show that makes you want to see more of almost every supporting player - and, of course, of the show itself. |
| 75 |
New York Post Linda Stasi
Quirky, fun, [and] smart (literally). |
| 70 |
Newsday Diane Werts
There's warmth and wit there, along with not a little magic. |
| 70 |
Chicago Tribune Allison Benedikt
Even though broader does mean more conventional, conventional these days is underrated. |
| 70 |
Miami Herald Glenn Garvin
Surreal and then some. |
| 60 |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer Melanie McFarland
It's all very quirky. Too quirky, maybe, for an audience that is used to spaceships, robots and explosions. |
| 60 |
TV Guide Matt Roush
A divertingly original but awfully precious comic fantasy. |
| 60 |
Variety Brian Lowry
The idea itself... is pretty damn good, even if the execution doesn't quite live up to it. |
| 60 |
Washington Post John Maynard
If you're a regular viewer of the network -- whose hits include "Stargate: SG-1" and "Battlestar Galactica" -- be glad there's plenty of sci-fi to be found on "Eureka." And if Sci Fi's not on your TiVo, be glad that the show is driven more by characters than special effects (and so-so special effects at that). |
| 60 |
Hollywood Reporter Barry Garron
It can be pleasant -- even charming at times -- but not much more than that. |
| 60 |
Los Angeles Times Robert Lloyd
It's an uneven show that lacks the finely crafted eccentricity of a "Northern Exposure" and "Twin Peaks" or "Picket Fences" (other strange-small-town shows featuring police officers), but when I say "uneven," I do mean that sometimes it's good. |
| 58 |
Entertainment Weekly Gillian Flynn
The frustrating thing about Eureka is it doesn't know how seriously to take itself. [11 Apr 2006, p.59] |
| 50 |
New York Magazine John Leonard
I like [the characters] all enough to hope they can float this so-far-leaky dirigible. |
| 50 |
LA Weekly Robert Abele
It starts jumping in different directions so quickly that it loses focus. |
| 50 |
People Weekly Tom Gliatto
The show borrows from Northern Exposure, Twin Peaks, maybe the corporate drama Profit--too many to gauge how it'll develop. [24 Jul 2006, p.33] |
| 40 |
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Rob Owen
"Eureka" just doesn't rise to a "Northern Exposure" level of quality. |
| 30 |
Boston Globe Matthew Gilbert
With its population of must-love oddballs, the series drowns its cool sci-fi concept in a flood of "Northern Exposure" quaintness. |
