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  • CBS
  • Sep 19, 2007
  • CBS
  • Sep 19, 2007

Summary Forty over-achieving kids are given free reign to create their own society in this new reality-based offering from CBS. Forty kids are given forty days free of adult supervision in an abandoned New Mexico town to build a new world. At the end of every episode, the kids have a town meeting. At the meeting the kids award one child a gold s...

  • CBS
  • Sep 19, 2007
  • CBS
  • Sep 19, 2007
Kid Nation
Season 1
Season Premiere: Sep 19, 2007
Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 14 Critic Reviews
53
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Summary Forty over-achieving kids are given free reign to create their own society in this new reality-based offering from CBS. Forty kids are given forty days free of adult supervision in an abandoned New Mexico town to build a new world. At the end of every episode, the kids have a town meeting. At the meeting the kids award one child a gold s...

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Episode 1 • Sep 19, 2007 • 58 m
I'm Trying to Be a Leader Here
40 Kids have 40 days to build a brave new world without adults to help or hinder their efforts. Can they do it? These Kids, ages 8-15, will turn a ghost town into their new home.
Episode 2 • Sep 26, 2007 • 43 m
To Kill or Not to Kill
The Pioneers become divided over where and how to obtain a new source of food.
Episode 3 • Oct 3, 2007 • 44 m
Deal with It!
Disorder erupts, forcing the Town Council to make tough decisions about new laws that donÂ't sit well with the Pioneers.
Episode 4 • Oct 10, 2007 • 43 m
Bless Us and Keep Us Safe
Religious differences and Pioneer ire come to light when the Town Council suggests one religious ceremony to accommodate all faiths in Bonanza City.
Episode 5 • Oct 17, 2007 • 43 m
Viva la revolución!
The townspeople learn that they can elect new town council members.
Episode 6 • Oct 24, 2007 • 43 m
Bonanza Is Disgusting!
The Pioneers battle against Bonanza City's growing garbage problem.
Episode 7 • Oct 31, 2007 • 43 m
The Root of All Evil
Money brings out the best and worst in Bonanza City, when some Pioneers start selling goods on the street. Pioneer vying for the Gold Star is accused of bribing the others for support.
Episode 8 • Nov 7, 2007 • 43 m
Starved for Entertainment
Bonanza City goes Broadway when the pioneers hold a talent show.
Episode 9 • Nov 14, 2007 • 44 m
Not Even Close to Fair
Resentment brews when one District suggests a controversial new name for itself, and Guylan says something that could turn his District against him.
Episode 10 • Nov 21, 2007 • 43 m
Let Me Talk!
When the Town Council's efforts to improve communication and respect in Bonanza City backfire, one Pioneer is given an ultimatum.
Episode 11 • Nov 28, 2007 • 44 m
I Just Like the Recess Part
The Town Council bans Taylor from having fun, and she has a surprising reaction when her friends brag about the good times they're having without her.
Episode 12 • Dec 5, 2007 • 44 m
Where's Bonanza, Dude?
When the Town Council takes a trip beyond Bonanza City to meet with local Native Americans, the bossy Bonanza "sheriff" takes control of the town.
Episode 13 • Dec 12, 2007 • 44 m
We've All Decided to Go Mad!
After 40 days together, the Pioneers are put to the test to prove if they've been able to create a working society in Bonanza City.

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36% Mixed
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29% Negative
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Mixed or Average Based on 14 Critic Reviews
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36% Positive
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36% Mixed
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29% Negative
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80
Like any good reality show, Kid Nation's strengths are in its characters, and the most remarkable aspect of these characters so far is their intellectual superiority to adults on reality shows--they use big words and make funny jokes!
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70
As you might expect from a program that stars 40 kids--at least some of whom will say the darndest things--it is pretty delightful
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63
What Kid Nation lacks, however, is drama. With a cast of 40, it's hard for viewers to get attached to any of them long enough to care.
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50
Kid Nation does not mean to find out whether kids can do what adults could not. It means instead to demonstrate that these kids really would die without the intervention of adults.
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50
Would the creators of Kid Nation please go to their room for a time-out and come up with something more original?
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30
They're kids, exhibiting the kind of behaviors, good and bad, that kids do in real life. That's not awful or particularly surprising--but it's also not even remotely entertaining.
By Robert Bianco FULL REVIEW
20
Setting the controversy aside, the show is hopelessly derivative, shamelessly manipulative and in narrative terms, a bit of a mess.
By Brian Lowry FULL REVIEW

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