| 50 |
Detroit Free Press Mike Duffy
Alternately engaging and annoying. |
| 50 |
Kansas City Star Aaron Barnhart
It’s like “Men in Trees” ... for men. |
| 50 |
Entertainment Weekly Ken Tucker
Achingly sincere, deeply unbelievable. |
| 40 |
Orlando Sentinel Hal Boedeker
An uneven and often pretentious drama. |
| 40 |
San Jose Mercury News Charlie McCollum
It has its moments, particularly as it progresses. |
| 38 |
People Weekly Tom Gliatto
Is there anything here that Bruce Springsteen hasn't already sung about? [19 Mar 2007, p.39] |
| 30 |
Variety Brian Lowry
[It] feels like a Hallmark movie stretched into series form. |
| 30 |
Los Angeles Times Paul Brownfield
Here, I guess, is a dude's version of an ABC chick show. |
| 25 |
New York Post Linda Stasi
The acting is OK, but not so OK that you can overlook their model-good-looks. I mean, no town can be that full of perfect specimens. But you would have thought Hollywood couldn't be so full of bad writers either. |
| 25 |
USA Today Robert Bianco
An appalling combination of precious and pretentious. |
| 25 |
New York Daily News David Hinckley
A sort of perfect storm of bad writing. |
| 25 |
Chicago Sun-Times Doug Elfman
A rote TV drama. |
| 20 |
Boston Globe Matthew Gilbert
I kept waiting for the unexpected beat, the surprising plot riff, the inverted cliche , but they never came. |
| 20 |
Hollywood Reporter Barry Garron
The stories trudge along like a semi on a steep uphill grade. Taken as a whole, the show looks more like something pasted together for potential demographic appeal than anyone's dramatic vision. |
| 20 |
Newark Star-Ledger Alan Sepinwall
All of the characters speak in the same exposition-heavy voice; their individual quirks... are too calculated to be interesting; and the soundtrack is both too on-the-nose... and, for the most part, 10-15 years too old for the characters. |
| 20 |
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Rob Owen
"October Road" is perhaps one of the most clumsily plotted, illogical drama pilots to be produced in years. |
| 12 |
San Francisco Chronicle Tim Goodman
It's a coming-of-age story so overwrought and emotionally predictable, it's -- what's the word here? -- unwatchable. |
| 10 |
Newsday Diane Werts
There's nothing unexpected here, and certainly no adventure, just who's sleeping with whom, and who's the daddy, and why they're still so juvenile, and how Tom Berenger ended up in this soapy soup. |
| 10 |
The New York Times Ginia Bellafante
The series... exists as the kind of bad soap opera that quickly allows you to see what makes a good one. |
| 10 |
Philadelphia Inquirer Jonathan Storm
[It] can pack more cliches into 10 minutes than bad old WB dramas had in an hour. |
| 10 |
Washington Post Tom Shales
The show is as commercial and mechanical as an entry-level Mercedes, but not as emotionally involving. |
| 10 |
LA Weekly Robert Abele
It almost seems to thrive on triteness and lack of cohesion. |
| 0 |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer Melanie McFarland
To put it mildly, and succinctly, it's appalling. |
| 0 |
TV Guide Matt Roush
The woeful sub-Dawson's Creek dialogue caused me actual pain. |
| 0 |
Chicago Tribune Maureen Ryan
This wretched show not only features a lead character who is an unredeemable nitwit but dialogue that manages to be leaden, preposterous and pretentious all at once. |
