Nashville: Season 1
  • Network: FOX
  • Series Premiere Date: Sep 14, 2007
  • Season #: 1
Metascore
38 out of 100

Generally unfavorable reviews - based on 13 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 13
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 13
  3. Negative: 9 out of 13
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  1. Boston Globe
    Reviewed by: Matthew Gilbert
    20
    Even if you're a shameless lover of "Laguna Beach" and its spinoff, "The Hills," you should probably avoid this country-flavored iteration of the semi-scripted reality soap formula. It's pretty doggone dull.
  2. Chicago Sun-Times
    Reviewed by: Doug Elfman
    25
    My name is Clint, and I'm a big stupid doofus from Texas starring in a new "docu-soap" called Nashville, where me and a bunch of other country singers try to become famous, like those girls did on "Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County."
  3. Chicago Tribune
    Reviewed by: Maureen Ryan
    20
    It all seems painfully staged and contrived.
  4. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Jon Caramanica
    30
    Almost every scene on Nashville feels ploddingly staged. Every conversation is alarmingly, and unconvincingly, topical; no scene is wasted.
  5. Miami Herald
    Reviewed by: Glenn Garvin
    20
    The show's dialogue feels scripted, its frequent hookups and breakups abrupt and phony, and its scenes from the music business out and out fraudulent.
  6. Newsday
    Reviewed by: Diane Werts
    30
    This show is slickly packaged and unchallengingly trite in its slavish reality-show construction.
  7. Seattle Post-Intelligencer
    Reviewed by: Melanie McFarland
    30
    It takes a while to connect to these characters, and those who show up might not be willing to stick around until the melodrama kicks in.
  8. Variety
    Reviewed by: Phil Gallo
    30
    The show is as directionless as its stars.
  9. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: John Maynard
    30
    All the slick production values and some decent music in Nashville can't make up for these one-dimensional subjects, and their angst over their fledgling careers grows tiresome.

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User Score
7.3 out of 10

Generally favorable reviews- based on 12 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 7
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 7
  3. Negative: 2 out of 7
  1. KevinL.
    0
    Avoid at all costs. The pilot was boring and it looked more like a scripted drama. It looked unconvincing. The show looked as if it is lost and it doesn't have any known structure to it. The characters are just unconvincing and just is painful.… Full Review »
  2. EricB.
    9
    Not bad Not bad at all.
  3. StephanieW.
    10
    I want to see more of Sarah! Who cares about Rachel and Mika and their high school feud over Clint? Who the heck is Clint anyway, and what does he know about country music or Nashville? He needs to borrow one of his dad's jets and fly to L.A. I do believe Sarah, Chuck, Jeff, and Matt are sincere. My bets are on those 4!… Full Review »
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