• Network: The CW
  • Series Premiere Date: Sep 26, 2011
  • Season #: 1 , 2
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Mixed or average reviews - based on 20 Critics What's this?

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Generally favorable reviews- based on 50 Ratings

  • Summary: After her dreams to follow in the footsteps of her big-city heart surgeon father are crushed, Zoe Hart (Rachel Bilson) accepts an offer to work in a small clinic in Bluebell, Alabama.
  • Genre(s): Drama
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 20
  2. Negative: 8 out of 20
  1. Reviewed by: Jessica Shaw
    Sep 26, 2011
    83
    This show, which reunites the undeniably charming Bilson with The O.C. creator Josh Schwartz, is a goodie that mixes heartstring-tugging moments with lines like this: "There it is. Rock bottom. I just played 'Dixie' with my butt."
  2. Reviewed by: Jonathan Storm
    Sep 13, 2011
    70
    There are no twins, reality stars, or vampires, er, witches, but you're not alone in thinking that's the most preposterous concept of all. Surprisingly, cast and crew succeed in making the sugary sweet illogic palatable, if not a gourmet delight.
  3. Reviewed by: David Eckstein
    Sep 26, 2011
    60
    There are parts of Hart of Dixie that need addressing. The pace lags at certain points. And some of the characters, sometimes even Bilson, are more like caricatures.
  4. Reviewed by: Brian Lowry
    Sep 26, 2011
    30
    This CW show is so silly and lightweight it might possess unexpected appeal for its sheer camp factor, as well as the opportunity to see the South depicted as a place as exotic as the dark side of the moon.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 16 out of 20
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 20
  3. Negative: 4 out of 20
  1. omg this show is so addicting! i love it so much! i really hope theres a season 2! Its so exciting and hart warming *see what i did there(; * There were some funny parts, and parts that made me tear up a bit. It has an interesting plot , and i just cant wait till every mondays(: Expand
  2. Bilson was stellar in her performance! The shoe doesn't have the best writing, but there's still time to improvement, so this is the one to watch, however there's only so much more time before the show is endangered if it doesn't improve. Jaime King however was destesable in her role of Lemon Breeland. Expand
  3. 6
    There are a lot of good things about this show. The main detractor is that they don't seem to have figured out how to actually make us LIKE Zoe. In the current uber-competitive PTTV world, there isn't a lot of room for mistakes. Expand
  4. I was hoping for another quirky show set in a small town. I got a show in a small town but without the quirky.
    This is no Gilmore Girls or Nor
    thern Exposure. The writing is bad and Rachel, as much as I loved her in the OC is playing pretty much the same type of character here, except...she is a Doctor which really doesn't work. Expand

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