| 90 |
Wall Street Journal
It doesn't happen very often that halfway into the pilot for a new show, you're already looking forward to subsequent episodes just to find out more about the characters you've glimpsed in the first few minutes. |
| 75 |
Christian Science Monitor Gloria Goodale
Good casting and well-paced writing give hope. |
| 70 |
Washington Post Tom Shales
What lifts "Evidence" well above the clamor of standard cop shows is the charisma between its two male leads. |
| 60 |
Orlando Sentinel Hal Boedeker
The Evidence needs more distinctive twists to stand out in the overpopulated crime lineup. |
| 50 |
Chicago Tribune Sid Smith
Estes and Jones are appealing, slightly underplaying their buddy shtick. In a galaxy far, far away, their act might click. But in our universe of cop show overload, they're just another team grappling with grisly violence and unrepentant evil. |
| 50 |
Entertainment Weekly Dalton Ross
It's funny, I was just saying how there aren't enough procedural forensic/police dramas on TV these days. [24 Mar 2006, p.64] |
| 50 |
USA Today Robert Bianco
Even if The Evidence were the first show of its kind, it would still be mediocre. |
| 40 |
Newsday Verne Gay
[A] shamelessly derivative cop show set in the shamelessly overexposed city by the bay, with high-school-play-level acting performances which help make the overall effect cornier than a cornfield in Kansas. And yet ... and yet, there's something appealing about ABC's new cop drama. |
| 40 |
The New York Times Alessandra Stanley
The show's main characters are all too familiar. |
| 40 |
TV Guide Matt Roush
The very definition of generic. |
| 40 |
Philadelphia Inquirer Jonathan Storm
In the pilot tonight, one of the clues has nothing to do with the murder, and that hardly seems fair, though "fair" in another sense might be the best way to describe The Evidence. Unless you want to go for "poor." |
| 40 |
Miami Herald Glenn Garvin
You can pretty much watch this show any night of the week under its other titles, CSI and Law & Order. |
| 38 |
Chicago Sun-Times Doug Elfman
It demonstrates how a show can be a run-of-the-mill cop drama despite a talented cast and a few interesting twists. |
| 30 |
Los Angeles Times Paul Brownfield
It isn't a bad gimmick, establishing a certain tension, but the premise is about the only thing that recommends "The Evidence," a show that otherwise seems to be moving you -- rather than moving -- through its procedural paces. |
| 30 |
Cleveland Plain Dealer Mark Dawidziak
Has little to offer but formula storytelling and conventional crime-drama techniques. |
| 30 |
Hollywood Reporter Barry Garron
In the end, it's just a case of pouring old crime into new bottles. |
| 30 |
Boston Globe Matthew Gilbert
It all feels inessential. |
| 30 |
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Rob Owen
Showing the evidence really adds nothing as the story twists, turns and contorts itself in an attempt to keep viewers from tuning out before the hour is up. |
| 25 |
San Francisco Chronicle Tim Goodman
Let's present some evidence for you to analyze: A tired premise. Overly familiar characters. Dull writing. An unclear tone. A series that pales in comparison to any of the "CSI" shows and pretty much every new crime and punishment procedural in the last five years. |
| 25 |
Detroit Free Press Mike Duffy
Just another tediously cliched crime procedural. Whodunit? Who cares. |
| 25 |
New York Daily News David Hinckley
The drama has more false frights than a student horror film, and such an uneven and incompatible tone that it's tough to tell which is funnier, the scenes of alleged humor or the scenes of alleged drama. |
| 20 |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer Melanie McFarland
I'm not sure which is worse, that tired back story or Martin Landau besmirching his career by appearing in this as a wizened forensics guy. |
| 20 |
Variety Brian Lowry
This basically feels like the fifth best cop drama of the 1978 TV season. |
| 20 |
Slate Troy Patterson
If there exists a device called a Procedural-O-Matic, then it created this show. |
