• Network: NBC
  • Series Premiere Date: Oct 13, 2008
  • Season #: 1
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Metascore

Generally favorable reviews - based on 25 Critics What's this?

User Score

Universal acclaim- based on 50 Ratings

  • Summary: Harry lives the stereotypical suburban life, but he also is Edward, a trained spy. The worlds start to merge as the carefully constructed wall between the two breaks down.
  • Genre(s): Drama, Action & Adventure, Science Fiction
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 13 out of 25
  2. Negative: 3 out of 25
  1. Reviewed by: Verne Gay
    100
    Far, far, far and away NBC's best new pilot of the season and one of the best new shows of the season, on any network -- commercial or cable.
  2. Reviewed by: Andrew Herrmann
    75
    If you can buy into the fantasy, Slater delivers on his part of the deal, playing both characters with just enough unique quirks so viewers can tell them apart. Usually.
  3. Reviewed by: Marisa LaScala
    60
    My Own Worst Enemy looks like it’s been assembled from the leftovers of other pop-culture heavyweights.
  4. 37
    You might be able to forgive the sloppiness of the premise if something else in the episode worked, but it's all a contrived, derivative mess.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 36 out of 37
  2. Negative: 0 out of 37
  1. Christian Slater delivers a brilliant performance portraying two characters who are a split personality. They are the same man but different to one another, so there are parallels between the characters which makes for a difficult job for the actor who somehow makes this look easy. One of the supporting cast has the same job to do; two connected characters in one man and unfortunately doesn't pull it off. one character is complete while the other is too emotionally dead and without personality. It's only toward the very last two episodes that he begins to 3 dimensionalize the spy character. Sadly, this is another brilliant series that has been cancelled. I am beginning to get annoyed with the networks lack of follow through. Collapse
  2. TrudiF
    10
    Fantastic show. At last something intelligent on tv. Exciting, origional and amazingly gripping. Are all the people who decided to cancel it temporarily insane...? Expand
  3. ElginW.
    8
    I think Slater does a very good job playing this character.
  4. DavidH
    5
    I had high hopes and even set up the DVR to record all new episodes. However, after just one episode (think it was the second one), the wife and i were less than impressed. I do like Slater but found the plot and the characters to be a bit tired and cliche. Expand

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