Metacritic TV

Identity

SERIES: NBC, Weekdays 8:00p (60 minutes)

Starring Penn Jillette (host)

Genre(s): Game Show

FIRST AIR DATE: December 18, 2006

Overall Metascore

This is a weighted, normalized average of all individual scores given by critics, on a scale of 0 (worst) to 100 (best).

24 / 100

Critic Reviews

58 Entertainment Weekly Paul Katz
Penn Jillette can't pull off the illusion that he's as likable as Howie Mandel. [22 Dec 2006, p.75]
30 Philadelphia Daily News Ellen Gray
Considering how hard people on shows like "Survivor" and "The Amazing Race" work for their prizes, there's something almost unseemly about giving people prizes for not much more than showing up.
30 The New York Times Alessandra Stanley
“Identity” is to game shows what a gastric bypass is to dieting: a choice that defies convention and social niceties.
25 New York Daily News David Hinckley
It's not good.
10 Newsday Verne Gay
Problem is, the show is more comfortable with cliché than subtlety.
10 Philadelphia Inquirer Jonathan Storm
Now, you may be saying, "There he goes again, that elitist toad." But believe me, even Paris Hilton, Britney Spears and Bill O'Reilly would think this show was stupid.
10 Slate Troy Patterson
A degraded update of What's My Line?
0 Washington Post Tom Shales
One's first impression of "Identity" is likely to be that it is a miserably tedious mess, a reaction that probably will grow stronger the further one slogs into the Big Muddy that is the show.

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