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Day Break
SERIES: ABC, Wednesday 9:00p (60 minutes)


9.2

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Starring Taye Diggs, Moon Bloodgood, Meta Golding, Victoria Pratt, Ramon Rodriguez, and Adam Baldwin

Replacing "Lost" in ABC's Wednesday night lineup (until February) is this Groundhog Day-esque drama about a cop (Taye Diggs) who keeps re-living the same day over and over again. And what a bad day it is: among other things, his girlfriend is killed, and he is framed for a murder he didn't commit.

GENRE(S):	Drama
CREATED BY:	Paul Zbyszewski
FIRST AIR DATE:	November 15, 2006

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...

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Christian Science Monitor Gloria Goodale

It's good, complicated drama, sometimes hard to watch, but more compelling evidence that the best storytelling for adults these days is on the small screen.

100

Chicago Sun-Times Doug Elfman

"Day Break" asks viewers for faith, to believe unanswered questions will not go unanswered forever, and that every episode will be worth experiencing. For now, I'm willing to take that leap of faith, because the action is swift, the acting is taut and the premise is cool.

Hollywood Reporter Barry Garron

It's a one-of-a-kind thriller that rewards your attention with nonstop action, endless surprises, exciting cinematography and a great assortment of characters.

Miami Herald Glenn Garvin

Intense and fascinating.

Philadelphia Inquirer Jonathan Storm

A well-made rocket ride that's closer to 24 than anything else on TV.

New York Post Linda Stasi

Diggs is a very good actor. Attempting to pull off a complicated scenario like this would be tough for a vet, let alone someone who made his bones in musical theater.

Newark Star-Ledger Alan Sepinwall

The thing is, if you can let go of the "Groundhog Taye" problem, it's a decent little thriller with a sci-fi twist.

Kansas City Star Aaron Barnhart

After the nerve-jangling first episode, I predict you’ll be hooked.

LA Weekly Robert Abele

Because Hopper can radically rejigger events for better or worse -- a decision that prevents one disaster might cause another - Day Break... feels like the first video-game-era series.

Wall Street Journal Nancy DeWolf Smith

Following the show will require some effort for viewers accustomed to less demanding fare.

The New York Times Alessandra Stanley

"Day Break" has enough suspense and clever turns to tempt viewers to stay and see how the next day breaks.

Entertainment Weekly Gillian Flynn

At its best, Day Break has a Choose Your Own Adventure feel... [It] just needs to get those pages flying a little faster.

Chicago Tribune Maureen Ryan

It may not be blessed with the most felicitous dialogue of all time, but “Day Break” is a solidly constructed and fast-paced drama.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer Melanie McFarland

"Day Break" is an intricate, imaginative series designed to make you ask questions at every turn, but the killer will be, "What else is on?"

Philadelphia Daily News Ellen Gray

As much fun as it might be for some of us to start our Wednesday nights watching a shirtless Taye Diggs get out of bed - just as it was once fun to watch Agents Mulder and Scully chase goblins and ghosties and things that go bump in the night - these TV conspiracies have a way of ending badly.

Los Angeles Times Paul Brownfield

You begin to feel strung along on an errand whose complexities can't mask the fact that the main character isn't great company.

Detroit Free Press Mike Duffy

Slick, predictably convoluted and pumped up on conspiratorial dread, "Day Break" may be a trifle late to the serial thriller party.

USA Today Robert Bianco

Spend two hours tonight with this murky, muddled serial, and you may already feel as if you've been trapped in this day for an eternity.

Washington Post Tom Shales

Intriguing and confounding though it is, this is anything but easy, funsy television. In fact, there are times when a viewer may feel he's being punished almost to the same degree as Detective Hopper.

San Francisco Chronicle Tim Goodman

At some point, your head will explode.

Variety Brian Lowry

There's a fine line between mysterious and just plain mystifying, and "Day Break" lurches over it.

Slate Troy Patterson

Diggs has considerable magnetism, but it would take the charisma of a cult leader to disguise the fact that this show sometimes reads like a '70s conspiracy thriller as interpreted by the makers of Bad Boys II.

Arizona Republic Bill Goodykoontz

And you thought Lost could be confusing. At least it doesn't give you a headache just thinking about it.

Boston Globe Matthew Gilbert

"Day Break" doesn't quite work, not only because of its redundancies but because its story line becomes simultaneously convoluted and pointless.

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Rob Owen

"Day Break" is both dark and frustrating.

San Jose Mercury News Charlie McCollum

The upside to the series is that Diggs is good enough and the production slick enough that, for a while, you might be willing to play along the don't-think-too-hard-about-it premise.... [But] Hopper's day becomes pretty boring after a while.

New York Daily News David Hinckley

They say insanity is performing the same action repeatedly and hoping for a different outcome. For ABC and "Day Break," insanity may be expecting viewers to watch the same day over and over and be interested in the infinite minor and major variations.

TV Guide Matt Roush

The season's silliest new action-fantasy-adventure.

The average user rating for this tv show is 9.2 (out of 10) based on 137 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Princess H. gave it a9:
I love the show and the complex twist. It's not the type of show you would expect when the same day repeats itself. Definitely a good example of 'decisions and consequences'. why was it ever canceled?

Day Broken gave it a10:
Fantastic show... why'd it go?

Marcia B. gave it a10:
Daybreak is totally awesome!!! Taye Diggs is a terrific actor and I am hooked on the storyline. Thank you for switching it to TVOne! Thank you, thank you, thank you!

Michiel P. gave it a9:
A second season would fill me with joy!

Marco C. gave it a10:
I don't understand why this show has such a broadly opinionated spectrum of reviews. It's plenty suspenseful, smartly written, more twists than a twizzler, and even though its not original neither is almost every song out there that has hit number one on the billboards. It kept me wondering what would happen next in more than one instance-- that's more than I can say for 70% of the other rubbish on TV

Mike R. gave it a10:
One of the best series on TV. I feel sad that so many questions were left unanswered. Too bad. People don't know what they're missing. I still wonder about Jared...

Ziff M. gave it a10:
Great show, great cast. ABC's loss for yanking it off. If we are lucky, perhaps another network will see a season 2 produced. Our family has made a conscious decision to not watch ABC programing as a result of their decision. Keep the faith... For every decision - consequence...

Day Break SERIES: ABC, Wednesday 9:00p (60 minutes)

Day Break
SERIES: ABC, Wednesday 9:00p (60 minutes)