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Painkiller Jane: Season 1
  • Network: Syfy
  • Series Premiere Date: Apr 13, 2007
  • Season #: 1
User Score
6.2 out of 10

Generally favorable reviews- based on 19 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 11 out of 19
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 19
  3. Negative: 7 out of 19

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  1. AdamS.
    May 20, 2007
    2
    painful to watch
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  2. CaladoniaK
    Apr 22, 2007
    0
    Boring as hell. The writing and acting are amateuish (at best)r.
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  3. TaffW
    Apr 25, 2007
    6
    This is quite watchable, I guess it has been over shadowed by Heroes. It doesn't have the slick production of that show but its quite entertaining. How lame to give this a O because it spoils your Google searches?
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  4. SCOTTM
    May 2, 2007
    10
    Loken is great, hope the rest improves.
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  5. kyle
    Jul 20, 2007
    2
    i watched a couple episodes of this show and it didn't suck COMPLETELY... but it still sucked. The script isn't written very well. I've written better and i'm only a high school student. This short review is probably more entertaining than an entire episode of this show.
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  6. MarcS.
    Jul 9, 2007
    10
    This show is a very good show. I like the sci-fi approach to an old police/Govt agency type show. I think the non-sci-fi comentators should stay out.
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  7. EdwardEddie
    Sep 22, 2007
    10
    I think its awesome.
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  8. BobB.
    Sep 22, 2007
    10
    It rocks- no seriously.
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  9. daveb
    Sep 26, 2007
    10
    the only show I found interesting on all TV, the rest you can figure the ending 5 min into the show. To bad itm didn't last, most viewers now don't want to think.
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  10. KenL.
    Sep 4, 2007
    10
    I thought it was one of the more interesting show on recently. I don't watch a lot of new shows and it take something unusual or special to get me to come back week after week, PKJ did.
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  11. JunaidS
    Feb 3, 2008
    10
    Well, its different from HEROES but certainly its wonderful in its own way. I watched the whole 6 DVD's back to back this weekend and im hell looking for season 2. What happens to BRIAN, and Robert, like i can't wait. Kristina is excellent in these episodes against certain movies like Blood Rayne. She is a genuine depiction of personal vs professional conflicts. You should shine star :) All hands for the show.… Expand
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  12. BlancoA.
    Apr 17, 2007
    3
    This show is really, really thin. Of couse it's gonna suck, but it's not the "good" kind of sucking, like those flicks with Milla Jovovich. Loken is the show's only virtue, but she's shallow - much worse than her role in the "L-Word".
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  13. StefanT
    Apr 21, 2007
    0
    I hate this show, cause it pops all the time in my google searches, when i look for Painkiller (the game) stuff
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  14. RustyC.
    Dec 21, 2009
    1
    wow. im completely amazed on how many painkillers i had to take to watch the pilot. camera 0/10 script 0/10 acting 0/10 charakters 0/10 dialoge 0/10 postproduction 1/10 i could go on and on... If you are over 12 years old, you will need a full pack of painkillers to overlook all the things that went wrong in this show - and even then - whats left? Opinions are diffrent, but if your first impression comes close to how i see this show, its going to get even worse... sad but true - and i expected a great show...i think the power-rangers had better plots - remember those?… Expand
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  15. SwarleyStinson
    May 30, 2012
    5
    PKJ has a good premise and could have been a good show. Generally a show that has super people should be about the super people, like Heroes, or show both the Feds and the super people like The 4400. Showing just the Feds side of things can be good like in Alphas but in PKJ it just doesn't work because the writing is so bad. Its not terrible but the plots are just too bland.
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Metascore
29 out of 100

Generally unfavorable - based on 15 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 15
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 15
  3. Negative: 10 out of 15
  1. Chicago Tribune
    Reviewed by: Maureen Ryan
    0
    What's most mind-boggling about this show is how it manages to get every single thing wrong.
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  2. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Clark Collis
    42
    This creaky, cliché-strewn, and pretty cheap-looking sub-X-Files enterprise needs to drastically improve if it wants to become as death-proof as its lead character. [13 Apr 2007, p.69]
  3. The Hollywood Reporter
    Reviewed by: Ray Richmond
    20
    "Painkiller Jane" has been reincarnated as a far lamer show than it was on first view more than a year ago.
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