| 80 |
Chicago Tribune Maureen Ryan
Thanks to a top-notch cast and unusually intelligent writing, "Kidnapped" is among the more promising of many new shows that pay homage to the granddaddy of the current suspense boom, "24." |
| 80 |
Baltimore Sun David Zurawik
The most tautly written of all the new serialized dramas. |
| 80 |
Hollywood Reporter Barry Garron
A superbly constructed and unpredictable tale of intrigue and mystery. |
| 80 |
Orlando Sentinel Hal Boedeker
The opener has been smoothly filmed, but the second episode supplies personal angles that deepen Kidnapped and suggest its potential. |
| 75 |
San Francisco Chronicle Tim Goodman
Tonight's pilot has a film quality to it and the narrative flow is both intriguing and unexpected. |
| 75 |
New York Daily News David Hinckley
After each of the first two hours of "Kidnapped," you're eager to learn what happens next. In any TV series, that's a good sign. In a serialized drama, it's crucial - and "Kidnapped" makes it look easy. |
| 75 |
New York Post Linda Stasi
All in all, it's a good show. The problem, however, is the retreaded storyline. |
| 75 |
People Weekly Tom Gliatto
It's a gripper. [25 Sep 2006, p.43] |
| 75 |
Detroit Free Press Mike Duffy
Darkly gripping. |
| 70 |
Kansas City Star Aaron Barnhart
Sleek, action-packed and heavy on the acting talent. |
| 70 |
Los Angeles Times Paul Brownfield
"Kidnapped" is stylishly executed TV brain food, a little too moody for its own good but otherwise fine pulp. |
| 70 |
Newark Star-Ledger Alan Sepinwall
"Kidnapped" plays out like a point-by-point criticism of everything "Vanished" gets wrong. |
| 70 |
Newsday Verne Gay
Yes, there have been some valid questions about TV's recent embrace of the serial. (Too many? Will people stay tuned?) "Kidnapped" feels so fresh that viewers won't even care. |
| 70 |
Philadelphia Daily News Ellen Gray
An emotionally grounded thriller that might just spirit you away. |
| 70 |
Philadelphia Inquirer Jonathan Storm
Great cast and intriguing storytelling may get viewers, and, more important, network honchos, hooked. |
| 70 |
San Jose Mercury News Charlie McCollum
The show doesn't look as if it will get too complex for its own good, the mystery has an internal logic that works and, best of all, there are moments... that suggest the creators are constructing some real flesh-and-blood characters. |
| 70 |
The New York Times Alessandra Stanley
“Kidnapped,” which is filmed with a keener intelligence [than "Jericho"] and elegant restraint, focuses on a much smaller catastrophe and finds more to say. |
| 70 |
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Rob Owen
In addition to a less convoluted story, "Kidnapped" bests "Vanished" with its high-sheen cast. |
| 70 |
Washington Post Tom Shales
For what it is, it's an extremely accomplished piece of work -- unsettling in ways that few suspense thrillers manage to be. |
| 67 |
Entertainment Weekly Nicholas Fonseca
In a TV landscape bloated with serialized, surprise-a-minute thrillers, it'll take more than a sparkly thespian roster to keep viewers interested. [22 Sep 2006, p.89] |
| 60 |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer Melanie McFarland
"Kidnapped," which gives us a frequently riveting story populated by intriguing, complex characters, is regular-grade TV trying too hard to be gourmet. |
| 60 |
Time James Poniewozik
It's an all-around high-class production. And yet, after watching two episodes, I had much the same thought I did after seeing a few minutes in May: the show basically seems like a stretched-out Law & Order episode. |
| 60 |
Boston Globe Matthew Gilbert
It's good, but not quite inventive or mysterious enough to demand we swallow yet another serving of serial. |
| 50 |
Chicago Sun-Times Doug Elfman
Good cast. Nice narrative flow. But I don't quite care about this drama yet -- villains are too smart and heavyhanded, and tension is slack. |
| 50 |
Wall Street Journal Dorothy Rabinowitz
For the time being it's a hard slog. |
| 50 |
Variety Brian Lowry
A high-octane cast brings some promise to the show. |
| 50 |
USA Today Robert Bianco
You can easily imagine yourself settling in with Kidnapped for six, eight, maybe even 13 episodes. But 22? Sorry, no. |
