Crusoe: Season 1
  • Network: NBC
  • Series Premiere Date: Oct 17, 2008
  • Season #: 1
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Metascore
53 out of 100

Mixed or average reviews - based on 24 Critics What's this?

User Score
7.3 out of 10

Generally favorable reviews- based on 22 Ratings

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  • Summary: This international coproduction changes some of the classic book's details, including a younger Robinson whose backstory is different from the one in the classic novel.
  • Genre(s): Drama, Action & Adventure

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9 out of 24
  2. Mixed: 9 out of 24
  3. Negative: 6 out of 24
  1. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: David Hinckley
    80
    Some of the pirates tonight, perhaps inevitably, take on a little of Johnny Depp's Jack Sparrow. But the acting is generally solid and the action is both stirring and, happily, easy to follow.
  2. Chicago Sun-Times
    Reviewed by: Teresa Budasi
    75
    Once you figure out that the show is pure fluffy action-adventure and uses the book only as a flimsy guidepost, it's actually pretty entertaining.
  3. New York Magazine (Vulture)
    Reviewed by: John Leonard
    60
    Like Huck and Jim, or Ishmael and Queequeg, Crusoe and Friday embody the triumph of homoerotic male bonding over the steeps of race, culture, and ethnicity.
  4. Orlando Sentinel
    Reviewed by: Hal Boedeker
    30
    The business deals might have been artful, but the show certainly isn't.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 7
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 7
  3. Negative: 3 out of 7
  1. DaveW.
    9
    Something rarely presented on television: integrity, loyalty, friendship, living by principle; with excellent production standards. May "Crusoe" know many seasons.… Expand
  2. Welterweight426
    8
    This show was actually pretty good. Despite its lack of realism, it had pretty good acting and entertainment. Sometimes the story was a bit weak but otherwise, it was a good story.… Collapse
  3. BrandonS.
    2
    I was really disappointed in this, one of the only shows of the new season that I thought could be worth watching. Why on earth did they decide to start the series with Crusoe already on the island? Already friends with Friday? And the plot of the overly bloated 2-hour premiere was a lame search for pirate treasure, with the least frightening villains I've seen on TV in a long time. This show as a real dud. It seemed to want to do a Hercules/Xena thing at times, but it lacks all of the charm of those great series. It was just one bad decision after another. Too bad. I wanted to like this one.… Expand
  4. EliasC.
    2
    Terrible re-invention of the Daniel DeFoe novel. With so may characters landing on the island you must ask the following question: Is this Crusoe's island or grand Central Station?… Expand

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