Drive

USA TodayRobert Bianco

Sunday's two-hour premiere does a solid job of introducing an intriguing, if not exactly convincing, story and some appealing actors.

Entertainment WeeklyJeff Jensen

With some fine-tuning and bolder steering, Drive could be one souped-up storytelling machine.

People WeeklyTom Gliatto

This is Amazing Race of the damned, with something of the open-ended, Pandora's-box mystery of Lost, and it has the potential for out-there adventure. [23 Apr 2007, p.37]

TimeJames Poniewozik

Drive is an audacious, exhilarating enough concept, and its pace and writing snappy enough, to make you want to believe.

Miami HeraldGlenn Garvin

With enough intrigue for a spy thriller and enough careening car chases to satisfy the most deranged Fast and Furious cultists, it's an action series that engages your brain as well as your clutch foot.

Seattle Post-IntelligencerMelanie McFarland

This is TV sugar with an IQ and a pulse -- clever, revved-up, often funny, sometimes devastating.

LA WeeklyRobert Abele

Drive quickly asserts itself as an enjoyably diverting peel-out — brainless but not stupid, a well-stirred conspiracy/action mixture in keeping with Fox’s no-seat-belts hits 24 and Prison Break.

Chicago TribuneMaureen Ryan

The kind of well-made brain candy that nearly demands that you watch it with a bowl of popcorn.

New York PostLinda Stasi

All in all, brainless fun.

Newark Star-LedgerAlan Sepinwall

The Sunday premiere has a nice mix of thrills, comedy and pathos, but is there a show here?

Hollywood ReporterRay Richmond

"Drive" is at once exasperating and mesmerizing, utterly ridiculous if you read too much into it but utterly beguiling on its face.

Los Angeles TimesMary McNamara

Much of "Drive" is unabashedly derivative.... Much of it is also unbelievable... But two episodes in, it doesn't really matter.

San Jose Mercury NewsCharlie McCollum

There's just enough punch to it that you'll want to stick around for Hour Two.

Pittsburgh Post-GazetteRob Owen

It's TV for a generation of attention deficit disordered kids.

Detroit Free PressMike Duffy

With too many hints of recycled stock characters and formula thriller cliches, "Drive" sputters off the starting line.

NewsdayDiane Werts

"Drive" is less the sort of textured character study we've come to expect than an action-packed joy ride. That's not to say you won't wanna hop in. But it's hardly a journey you've gotta take.

Philadelphia Daily NewsEllen Gray

The first hour left me a bit cold, but the second, which arrived yesterday, filled in enough of the blanks to take me as far as Monday.

TV GuideMatt Roush

As fast-paced as it is preposterous.

VarietyBrian Lowry

It's a fairly impressive cast (of characters, not cars), albeit one left skidding around on a rather slippery premise.

Wall Street JournalNancy DeWolf Smith

After just one episode, I was interested enough to make a mental note to watch the final one someday, just to see who won and what the race was all about. People with more time on their hands and a tolerance for utter implausibility may choose to make the whole journey.

Philadelphia InquirerJonathan Storm

The twist ending of the first episode just might persuade remaining viewers to stick around for hour No. 2.

New York Daily NewsDavid Hinckley

The plot strains credulity so much that even that action-happy audience might reject the show.

Boston GlobeMatthew Gilbert

No, "Drive" isn't awful... But the show still lacks the charisma that a serialized story requires to keep viewers coming back for more.

Orlando SentinelHal Boedeker

Bad timing and bad taste damage Drive. No repair job can salvage this vehicle.

Chicago Sun-TimesDoug Elfman

At least "Lost" and "Heroes" give us a sci-fi excuse to forgive illogical stretches of the imagination.

The New York TimesVirginia Heffernan

It’s a television series as a prolonged [car] commercial, and it absolutely crosses the line.

Washington PostTom Shales

Muddled and befuddled from the outset, "Drive" represents a new kind of automotive hybrid -- a scripted treasure hunt designed to look like a reality show, well-stocked with the worst elements of both. It's basically "The Un-Amazing Race."