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Blade: Season 1
  • Network: Spike TV
  • Series Premiere Date: Jun 28, 2006
  • Season #: 1
Metascore
49 out of 100

Mixed or average reviews - based on 15 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 15
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 15
  3. Negative: 5 out of 15
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  1. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: David Hinckley
    75
    The more it progresses, the more surprises it unwraps, and the more promise it presents.
  2. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Linda Stasi
    75
    To love the series, it helps to be exactly Spike TV's target market - a young guy who, when he can't be out drinking beer and throwing up with his friends, loves nothing more than to sit in front of a giant-screen TV doing all of the above.
  3. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Gillian Flynn
    75
    When gunplay, kickboxing, and throat slitting actually feel like breaks in the action, you've got a series with brains as well as teeth. [28 Jul 2006, p.55]
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  4. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Robert Lloyd
    70
    "Blade: The Series" is pretty good, really, as these things go.
  5. Miami Herald
    Reviewed by: Glenn Garvin
    70
    With a gorgeous cast (even -- especially? -- the dead ones), plenty of cool slow-mo martial arts action, a glorious collection of lethal hardware and an intriguing plot, Blade's got something for the whole family, provided they rank somewhere between the Munsters and the Mansons in sensibility.
  6. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
    Reviewed by: Philip A. Stephenson
    70
    Although most viewers will notice a scale-down in the scope of effects and stunts, the style, the look and the impact are much the same as in the films.
  7. Philadelphia Inquirer
    Reviewed by: Jonathan Storm
    60
    Despite the loud music and all the supposedly ominous foolishness, blood that even spatters the camera lenses, and a sexy proto-vamp who often manages to wear almost no clothes (OK, maybe not despite her), I kind of liked the stupid thing.
  8. Chicago Sun-Times
    Reviewed by: Doug Elfman
    50
    "Blade" could work as an earnest fantasy. It just doesn't, yet.
  9. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Anita Gates
    50
    Surprisingly inoffensive.
  10. The Hollywood Reporter
    Reviewed by: Ray Richmond
    40
    Quite the bloodletting experience, even gratuitously so.
  11. Boston Globe
    Reviewed by: Matthew Gilbert
    30
    Certainly a superhero needs to have gravitas, but Jones takes it too far -- further than Wesley Snipes in the "Blade" movies.
  12. Detroit Free Press
    Reviewed by: Mike Duffy
    25
    A tediously bloody bore.
  13. Variety
    Reviewed by: Brian Lowry
    20
    Feels more like a bland swig of plasma than the bloody romp that it ought to be.
  14. San Jose Mercury News/Contra Costa Times
    Reviewed by: Charlie McCollum
    20
    [It] comes up more than a bit short.
  15. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Matt Roush
    10
    It's just more of the same martial artlessness. I kept expecting to see Batman-style OOF! BAM! graphics on screen.
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User Score
7.5 out of 10

Generally favorable reviews- based on 80 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 42 out of 58
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 58
  3. Negative: 14 out of 58
  1. WilliamK.
    6
    The story focuses more on the under foot characters, but the action remains the same white-knuckle fighting style, the weapons are cool, and plot plot is original. Both Wagner and Gower are to die for, but Jones tries too hard to make the character of Blade work. Oh well, at least it was better than Blade Trinity! Recommended!… Full Review »
  2. DarrenP.
    10
    I thought blade was one of the best series on television. I watched it every chance I got. The series ended with a huge cliffhanger, I truly hope that it will be brought back so that all of the fans can tune in and see what happens. please bring blade back.… Full Review »
  3. JessicaB
    10
    I love it!! It is sooo much fun to watch. Even if I have to go behind my moms back and watch. I still love it. PLEASE BRING IT BACK!!!!
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