| 67 |
Entertainment Weekly Staff (Not Credited)
Sure, Mick's life is ridiculoous, but you don't go lookin' for realism between "Ghost Whisperer" and "Numb3rs." [05 Oct 2007, p.67] |
| 63 |
USA Today Robert Bianco
Moonlight. It's basically "Angel" without the search-for-a-soul underpinnings that gave Angel depth, and with a more ponderous script and less adept cast. |
| 60 |
Hollywood Reporter Barry Garron
The focus is on the dangerous and forbidden relationship between Mick and Beth and his efforts to keep his past a secret. Whether there's enough material there to knit together a series remains to be seen. |
| 50 |
Washington Post Tom Shales
It doesn't go quite far enough into uncharted territory but gets off to a basically promising start nonetheless. |
| 50 |
Detroit Free Press Mike Duffy
Moonlight falls somewhere in the middle of the new paranormal pack. It's neither great nor awful. |
| 50 |
Chicago Sun-Times Doug Elfman
What's not fun? At least half of the rest of the show. |
| 50 |
PopMatters Michael Abernethy
With a winning lead player and supporting cast, plus an interesting premise, Moonlight has potential. |
| 40 |
Kansas City Star Aaron Barnhart
While it is formulaic and slow-paced, Moonlight is stylish entertainment with a charming star aimed at a specific audience--the folks who stay home Friday night and watch CBS. |
| 40 |
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Rob Owen
Moonlight is just a weak, generic private-eye drama with a vampire story overlay. |
| 40 |
San Jose Mercury News Charlie McCollum
It's just sort of an underwritten mess. |
| 40 |
Newark Star-Ledger Alan Sepinwall
The show plays like bad imitation noir where the private eye can occasionally sink his teeth into the villain. |
| 40 |
Los Angeles Times Mary McNamara
Something got lost between concept and execution, and instead of suspense we get silliness |
| 40 |
Newsday Diane Werts
Alex O'Loughlin is bogged down by trite dialogue, half-hearted support, perfunctory exposition, and better-to-look-good-than-make-sense production priorities. |
| 38 |
New York Post Linda Stasi
Moonlight, unfortunately, doesn't trust its audience and so falls to exposition via a fake talk-show interview at the beginning, and then throughout with dialogue dully delivered by Internet investigative reporter Beth Turner (Sophia Myles). |
| 30 |
Variety Brian Lowry
[Mick and Beth's] across-the-decades bond, however, doesn't compensate for how pedestrian the initial story is -- playing like a conventional detective show, with Mick showcasing his otherworldly powers (strong, and very, very fast) only during a passable action sequence in the final act. |
| 30 |
Philadelphia Inquirer Jonathan Storm
It's hardly bloodcurdling adventure, but it doesn't bite. |
| 30 |
Chicago Tribune Maureen Ryan
The direction is flat-out awful (there are many choppy shots from bizarre, if not inexplicable, angles). Much of the dialogue is groan-inducing, the acting by some of the guest actors is jaw-droppingly wooden, and I guessed who the villain was way before the halfway mark. |
| 30 |
Miami Herald Glenn Garvin
The hacky writing is interchangeable with any of CBS' police procedurals, and the boy-band good looks of Alex O'Loughlin as the detective, Mick St. John, inspire neither fear nor dark sexual longings |
| 30 |
The New York Times Ginia Bellafante
In almost every way, Moonlight demands that we question the grounds for its existence. |
| 30 |
Boston Globe Matthew Gilbert
Much of Moonlight is amateurish, but nothing is more amateurish than the artificial chemistry between O'Loughlin and Myles. |
| 30 |
Philadelphia Daily News Ellen Gray
I don't know exactly why Moonlight, which acquired "Veronica Mars'" adorable bad boy, Jason Dohring, as a second-round draft pick, seems so very lifeless. |
| 25 |
New York Daily News David Hinckley
This one is almost impressively wonderless. |
| 0 |
San Francisco Chronicle Tim Goodman
It's just heinous. Absurd, laughable, painful to watch--you name it, Moonlight has it all. |
| 0 |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer Melanie McFarland
This vampire detective show (sorry, can't resist this) is one that first bites, then sucks. Hard. |
