Killer Instinct: Season 1
  • Network: FOX
  • Series Premiere Date: Sep 23, 2005
  • Season #: 1
Metascore
25 out of 100

Generally unfavorable reviews - based on 13 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 13
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 13
  3. Negative: 12 out of 13
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  1. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: David Hinckley
    38
    It's a show so determined to shock that it cares more about that than about such things as compelling lead characters, believable situations or inventively solved mysteries.
  2. USA Today
    Reviewed by: Robert Bianco
    25
    The season's worst show.
  3. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Tim Goodman
    0
    You won't see any worse acting across the broadcast spectrum. The women-in-peril scenes are vile. The writing is atrocious. The series is horrifically bad. And not in a way that would make a good drinking game.
  4. Detroit Free Press
    Reviewed by: Mike Duffy
    0
    This is entertainment? Awful.
  5. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Robert Lloyd
    30
    With its soundtrack full of metal and techno and its killers packing imported deadly spiders and home surgery kits, it aims for a Gothic moodiness not unrelated to the season's scary-monster shows.
  6. Variety
    Reviewed by: Brian Lowry
    30
    Lifeless and uninspired.
  7. Boston Globe
    Reviewed by: Matthew Gilbert
    30
    It's not awful, exactly, but it's so willfully bleak as to become monotonous.
  8. The Hollywood Reporter
    Reviewed by: Ray Richmond
    30
    There is a lot of "The Silence of the Lambs" in Fox's creepy new "Killer Instinct," but not enough to make it compelling rather than simply icky.
  9. Miami Herald
    Reviewed by: Glenn Garvin
    20
    A mess.
  10. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Virginia Heffernan
    20
    Pervasively disappointing.
  11. Chicago Tribune
    Reviewed by: Maureen Ryan
    0
    Nothing could really prepare anyone for a show so wantonly grisly as this worthless, exploitative program.
  12. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
    Reviewed by: Rob Owen
    0
    A sadistic series that, underneath its ghastly veneer, is just a dull, unoriginal crime drama.

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User Score
8.6 out of 10

Universal acclaim- based on 57 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 36 out of 42
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 42
  3. Negative: 5 out of 42
  1. LjH
    9
    Really interesting show. Good characters, good chemistry, good ideas! Get it back!
  2. CristinaO
    10
    For some reason I didn't think it would be much, but I decided to give it a shot and I loved it. The whole deal: the acting, the stories, the production.… Full Review »
  3. KevinS
    10
    Super!! 2nd favo series my number 1 is still Lost
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