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High Society: Season 1
  • Network: The CW
  • Series Premiere Date: Mar 10, 2010
  • Season #: 1
Metascore
34 out of 100

Generally unfavorable - based on 12 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 12
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 12
  3. Negative: 8 out of 12
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  1. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Linda Stasi
    75
    Tinsley turns out to be the least interesting of her horrible crew. She pales in horribleness next to her friends, J.P. Calderon, an accused purse lifter who throws a glass at a woman and his sworn enemy, rich girl Jules Kirby.
  2. People Weekly
    Reviewed by: Tom Gliatto
    75
    In her enjoyably ridiculous reality show, she's self-consciously restrained, perhaps trying to project old-fashioned noblesse oblige-even while goosing her Google profile with this project in self-exposure. She just ends up neutralizing herself. The show is dominated instead by a supporting group of rich kids who take the reverse tactic of whole-hog shamelessness.
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  3. Newsday
    Reviewed by: Verne Gay
    42
    The first episode is fairly execrable, but High Society settles down by the second, and we get a clearer--or at least less-boozy--view of Mortimer and her world.
  4. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: David Hinckley
    40
    Not all Mortimer's posse seems shallow or unpleasant. But collectively they feel like the characters from all those nasty and wonderful 1960s Rolling Stones songs about neurotic rich girls. If only they were as interesting.
  5. Chicago Sun-Times
    Reviewed by: Paige Wiser
    38
    The problem with "High Society" is that we don't love or hate the characters. We just want to shave their heads.
  6. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Jessica Shaw
    33
    Sorry, Upper East Siders, real society would never be so trashy.
  7. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Robert Lloyd
    30
    I may just be a cranky old dude, but I am not charmed by this stuff; Spencer Pratt is just a prat to me, and though I wish you well, Tinsley, in your new life, I will be happy to think no more about your friends, starting now.
  8. Variety
    Reviewed by: Brian Lowry
    20
    Posing aside, Jules and Paul are probably right about lacking a censor button, but even 2,500 miles away, I couldn't find the "off" button fast enough.
  9. The Hollywood Reporter
    Reviewed by: Randee Dawn
    20
    Clearly, the only function of the show is to make Tinsley (who runs a handbag company) look like a valuable, upright member of society. So that's where the bar is set these days?
  10. Philadelphia Daily News
    Reviewed by: Ellen Gray
    20
    These are not people you would love to hate. These are people you would be ashamed to allow in your home--unless their heads were on pikes.
  11. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
    Reviewed by: Rob Owen
    20
    An awful show about awful people.
  12. Deseret News
    Reviewed by: Scott D. Pierce
    0
    High Society is absolutely reprehensible, and everyone at The CW should be totally ashamed for putting it on the air.
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  1. GB
    0
    Trash. boring boring trash.
  2. [Anonymous]
    2
    Pretty god-awful - but I'll keep watching.
  3. KristiY.
    0
    Don't watch not worth your time. These people make me sick! Shame on CBS just another reason to cancel my cable.