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Bionic Woman
SERIES: NBC, Wednesday 9:00p (60 minutes)


5.2

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Starring Michelle Ryan, Miguel Ferrer, Molly Price, Will Yun Lee, Katee Sackhoff, Thomas Kretschmann, and Mark Sheppard

There's no $6 Million Man or cheesy sound effects in this new, darker Bionic Woman.

GENRE(S):	Action / Adventure, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
CREATED BY:	David Eick
FIRST AIR DATE:	September 26, 2007

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...

Hollywood Reporter Barry Garron

Under Michael Dinner's steady directorial hand, it's dark, tense and conspiratorial, a far cry from the camp sci-fi tricks of its predecessor.

Los Angeles Times Mary McNamara

It's not your mother's Bionic Woman. It's much, much better.

Washington Post Tom Shales

NBC's lavish and splashy new version of Bionic Woman, is not, as one might fear, a BW stripped of everything that fans loved about the '70s original.

Slate Troy Patterson

Sarah Corvus has arrived to haunt and to taunt, to give our plucky heroine a sinister contrast that the show can't do without.

Miami Herald Glenn Garvin

Intelligent and entertaining reimaginations of stupefyingly bad pieces of 1970s sci-fi hackwork.

Baltimore Sun David Zurawik

Just the right mix of camp, witchiness, special-effects and hand-to-hand combat.

PopMatters Cynthia Fuchs

The girls, though, look promising. Granted, the initial Sarah-Jamie fight scene occasions the series’ first spectacular special-effectsy scene.

Entertainment Weekly Gillian Flynn

Too much? Yes, too much! And yet, it's one of those moments you just have to shrug at and enjoy.

Boston Globe Matthew Gilbert

A sleekly engaging pilot that, with the right character development, could turn into a sleekly engaging series.

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Rob Owen

This Bionic Woman pilot is a downbeat drag, but buried somewhere beneath all the moping is an intriguing show that might yet emerge.

Variety Brian Lowry

A little messy in its conception, the series still exhibits considerable potential--the kind that inspires checking out a second episode.

Salon Heather Havrilesky

I also really enjoyed NBC's Bionic Woman. There's lots of super-powered action, I like regular-girl Michelle Ryan as Jaime Sommers, and best of all, Katee Sackhoff (Starbuck from "Battlestar Galactica") plays the eeeeevil former bionic woman, Sarah Corvus.

Kansas City Star Aaron Barnhart

Like young Jaime, it's going to take awhile for this show to find its artificial legs.

The New York Times Alessandra Stanley

NBC’s show, which is more about fembot martial arts and slick “Matrix”-ish special effects than about character development, is oriented toward young male viewers.

New York Magazine John Leonard

The unnecessary reimagining from executive producer David Eick, is a lot darker than the 1976 original

Detroit Free Press Mike Duffy

Despite her extreme makeover, this new Bionic Woman is mostly slick, dull and portentously sullen.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer Melanie McFarland

Now we're back to Bionic Woman and Jaime Sommers--only under the surgical knife of executive producer David Eick, who had a hand in reshaping "Battlestar Galactica" to suit modern sensibilities, the rebuilt is wussier and darker than Wagner ever was.

Chicago Tribune Maureen Ryan

Bionic Woman, the disappointingly average remake of the Lindsay Wagner vehicle from the ’70s, comes to life.

San Francisco Chronicle Tim Goodman

Ryan seems too inert, not nearly aggressive enough for the role.

Philadelphia Daily News Ellen Gray

There's a distinct "Alias" overtone to her initiation into the dark side of the force. If I'd liked "Alias," this might have me all excited. But I didn't, so I'm not.

New York Daily News David Hinckley

It doesn't bode well for this series, however, that tonight's premiere features a magnetic, dynamic, no-nonsense female cyborg who steals every scene she's in--and it isn't Ryan as Jaime Sommers.

New York Post Adam Buckman

This show is so cliched that it actually contains one of those scenes in which a camera makes a slow, 360-degree circle around Jaime as she gazes skyward.

USA Today Robert Bianco

Alas, while it's fine to have a villain who is more colorful than your hero, it's not so fine to have a supporting actor who makes your star vanish whenever they're on screen together. It makes you think that what this remake of a spinoff really needs is a spinoff of its own.

Newark Star-Ledger Alan Sepinwall

Jamie is our heroine, the one we're supposed to like and care about, but as played by British actress Ryan ("EastEnders," "Jekyll"), she's a mopey blank, badly upstaged every time Sackhoff makes one of her all-too-brief appearances as Corvus.

Philadelphia Inquirer Jonathan Storm

The whole place could use more lights so you could see what was going on.

Slant Magazine Brian Holcomb

This Bionic Woman does not fail to live up to the original, it fails to live up to all of the other programs it wants to emulate instead.

Orlando Sentinel Hal Boedeker

Dim. Ryan is not to blame. Jaime, rebuilt after a horrific car accident, must live in a grim, punishing world and associate with joyless characters. Speedy Jaime can't outrun this train wreck.

Newsday Diane Werts

NBC's new Bionic Woman remake is a desolate slab of ice where any resemblance to human beings - alive, dead or cyborgian--is purely coincidental. It's hard to imagine a bigger modernized mess being made

The average user rating for this tv show is 5.2 (out of 10) based on 91 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Caz G gave it a7:
This show had real potential - especially when the anti-Bionic woman was on screen - and should be given another chance with a stable writing/production team.

Jason D. gave it an8:
I liked it , obviously it should get better if more episodes get made . Michelle Ryan was perfectly cast and played the part a little darker than the original. Fun family tv show which sure beats the hell outta reality tv .

Lee L. gave it a10:
Just wanna improve the rating - in fact, I give it a 7/10 rating. Yes, it's not the best show ever, but I like most of the characters - mainly Sarah Corvus - and episodes. Sadly, gotta agree it sucks sometimes, like in 4 or so episodes. Still, it's worth watchin; I'm sure you'll enjoy it if you're into great female character interaction, neat (but not very often displayed) fighting scenes and other things which I can't recall now. Just watch it like I did: when top favourites like Lost are not available and without much concern. ;)

Jane K. gave it a5:
This is one of those terrible shows we all love to watch. A guilty pleasure, if you will. The plot lines are loose, continuation between episodes is weak, the characters aren't as interesting as they could be... and yet, I admit to watching it every time its on. At first it was just for Katee Satchell. And now... who knows? The fight scenes feel forced, the main character seems like a college student, not a bartending bionic woman... I don't feel there is any real threat to her or her sister, that there is no obvious threat from the outside... the first bionic woman is the only layered character, and I am hoping they will play with that angle more as a nemesis. Or just cancel this junk so I can turn the station.

Robbie C gave it a1:
Horrendous.

[Anonymous] gave it a4:
After the first few episodes, this drama quickly lost steam. Choppy in the development of the main characters relationships. I doubt any amount of money can save this lady.

Martin S. gave it a5:
I thought it was interesting until they added the romantic intrigue. The CIA dude is so smug it makes me want to puke.

Bionic Woman SERIES: NBC, Wednesday 9:00p (60 minutes)

Bionic Woman
SERIES: NBC, Wednesday 9:00p (60 minutes)