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Breaking In: Season 1
  • Network: FOX
  • Series Premiere Date: Apr 6, 2011
  • Season #: 1 , 2
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Metascore
55 out of 100

Mixed or average reviews - based on 19 Critics What's this?

User Score
7.3 out of 10

Generally favorable reviews- based on 26 Ratings

Your Score
10 out of 10
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  • Summary: Christian Slater is Oz, the owner of a security firm, who hires the college student who tried to hack into his school's systems to join his team of security experts.
  • Genre(s): Comedy, Drama

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 10 out of 19
  2. Mixed: 6 out of 19
  3. Negative: 3 out of 19
  1. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Ken Tucker
    Apr 5, 2011
    83
    With its debonair, jump-cut editing, Breaking In is a vigorously original, joke-packed bit of fun that could develop into something special. I'm serious, my Wookiee.
  2. The Huffington Post (formerly AOL TV)
    Reviewed by: Maureen Ryan
    Apr 5, 2011
    60
    More work needs to be done on all the characters; so far they're just types, and the first episode, perhaps because of its manic tone, didn't make me laugh much. But I can see Breaking In growing into a pleasant, mildly goofy comedy that offers the light-adventure qualities of a USA or TNT show and the silly diversions of a half-decent 'Chuck' episode.
  3. Salon
    Reviewed by: Matt Zoller Seitz
    Apr 6, 2011
    30
    [A] mediocre, plastic, utterly false new comedy premiering on Fox tonight--a series that just happens to be built around an all-powerful alpha male jerkwad-type of character.

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User Reviews

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 8
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 8
  3. Negative: 0 out of 8
  1. breakinginfanco
    10
    From my point of view this episode is awesome and it's pretty original,i mean i didn't see any serial like this before and i believe the it will be a success.The pilot episode and 2nd were very entertaining.I hope they will have more than one season.I saw those episodes on http://breakinginfan.com/… Expand
    • 2 of 2 users said yes
  2. chrischance
    8
    Promising show, chemistry between characters (BOOM! goes the dynamite!) is good and i am glad to see Christian Slater back on TV. I hope this one is to stay… Expand
    • 1 of 1 users said yes
  3. Fazered
    4
    I was really hoping for something from this show but after 7 episodes I give up. Ridiculous can be great and I often love it but this is the other type of ridiculous. The plot conceits are forced and clichéd. The story lines can be seen a mile off and the chemistry just doesn't work. It's not believable even if you take into account the fantasy reality setting. Poor.… Expand
    • 0 of 0 users said yes

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