| 80 |
Hollywood Reporter Ray Richmond
Doesn't sound like the formula for compelling, consequential drama, but quarterlife manages to take these typically narcissistic young adults and make them legitimately interesting. |
| 80 |
Newsday Diane Werts
The "quarterlife" series, too, offers an especially hopeful kind of exuberance, even a glowing warmth to the friendships, that shines brighter than previous Herskovitz-Zwick shows. |
| 80 |
Philadelphia Inquirer Jonathan Storm
It is a finely crafted serial about contemporary and supposedly representative people in the same decade of life. |
| 75 |
San Jose Mercury News Charlie McCollum
The writing is smart, the production is crisp and surprisingly stylish, given the budget, and the show has a fascinating central character in kinetic blogger Dylan Krieger. |
| 75 |
New York Daily News David Hinckley
What we get is a young adult soap opera whose story is as old as drama itself, but which is smartly packaged to look like you'd get it by typing www, instead of pressing the "on" button. |
| 70 |
Chicago Tribune Maureen Ryan
Though it soon settles into the standard patterns of an above-average (if overwrought) drama, the first episode of quarterlife may make you regret the creation of the Internet. |
| 70 |
Wall Street Journal Dorothy Rabinowitz
Their new effort--about a band of young careerists--shows considerable signs of promise along these lines, its depressing heroine notwithstanding. |
| 60 |
Variety Brian Lowry
It focuses on twentysomethings and employs the tired device of a character speaking to the camera, producing a video blog about herself and her equally self-obsessed friends. |
| 60 |
Los Angeles Times Mary McNamara
Zwick and Herskovitz do capture the sweet self-absorption of youth--love is never truer, dreams never dearer and life never as complicated as it is when you are 24--it's just that it all feels so familiar when we were so hoping for something new and exciting. |
| 50 |
USA Today Robert Bianco
This may be a show about young adults, but there are older adults in charge. And we've come to expect better from them. |
| 50 |
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Rob Owen
As frustrating as it is fascinating, watching the quarterlife characters is like gazing at animals in a zoo. |
| 50 |
LA Weekly Robert Abele
I don't feel negative necessarily about the flaws of quarterlife, but then I don't feel much at all about quarterlife either. |
| 40 |
PopMatters Marisa LaScala
It’s as if quarterlife comes with a prefab drinking game: take one shot when the waterworks start, another if the word “scared” follows. |
| 40 |
Newark Star-Ledger Alan Sepinwall
Any show that's willing to go to such a silly place, to have its main character utter a line of dialogue that's like a parody of a parody of stuff these guys were writing two decades ago on "thirtysomething," is not a show I have time for, even if other shows won't be back until April. |
| 30 |
Boston Globe Matthew Gilbert
Oh big sigh indeed. Quarterlife, is just plain creepy.... Rather than developing a clique of layered individuals, as they've done before, Herskovitz and Zwick deliver a small culture of flat, irritating generational emblems. |
| 30 |
Philadelphia Daily News Ellen Gray
Though the abbreviated installments of the online quarterlife had annoyed me with their very brevity, at an hour, NBC's quarterlife seems to drag on forever |
| 30 |
Washington Post Tom Shales
Regardless, what made it to the screen is something that is no stranger to television--whether it's aired or wired, blogged or beamed, uploaded or downlinked--and that something, sad to say, is mediocrity, with a portion of sheer annoyance thrown in. |
| 20 |
TV Guide Matt Roush
This exercise in tedium is better suited for its original home on the Internet, where it should have stayed. |
| 20 |
Orlando Sentinel Hal Boedeker
This little pipsqueak of a show doesn't deserve the wider forum of broadcasting. |
