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Make It or Break It

SERIES: ABC Family, Monday 9:00p (60 minutes)

Starring Chelsea Hobbs, Ayla Kell, Josie Loren, Cassie Scerbo, Peri Gilpin, Candace Cameron Bure, and Susan Ward

Created by Holly Sorensen

Genre(s): Drama, Family

FIRST AIR DATE: June 22, 2009

Overall Metascore

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

63 / 100

Critic Reviews

80 New York Daily News David Hinckley
The good part is that the drama should be fun to watch for us. And for the guy at Pizza Shack, too.
75 Entertainment Weekly Tanner Stransky
Make It is silly, melodramatic fun--and will score big-time with viewers from the fanatical Shawn Johnson set.
70 Variety Brian Lowry
Not everything works--starting with the split-screen gymnastics footage--but there are enough juicy bits here to forge a solid foundation with plenty of plot tendrils.
70 Los Angeles Times Mary McNamara
No doubt there will be many lessons about the importance of pulling together and being true to oneself, etc., but Make It or Break It seems prepared to take on not only the obvious Life Lessons but also the crucial undercurrents that move so many lives well into adulthood. And that, as much as the graceful wonder of gymnastics, will make it worth watching.
60 Philadelphia Daily News Ellen Gray
There's very little that's unexpected in Make It, including the obvious editing of the gymnastics performances. But Emily's a tough character who's easy to root for.
30 Boston Globe Laura Bennett
Despite its fancy flips and dizzy floor routines, Make It is unconvincing as a portal into this subculture and numbingly hollow as a commentary on teenage life.

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