Eleventh Hour

New York Daily NewsDavid Hinckley

Sewell radiates the kind of fascination you can't buy off the rack at the TV drama store, and that alone gives Eleventh Hour a strong start.

Kansas City StarAaron Barnhart

The show is entertaining enough, but the American Hood, played by Rufus Sewell, won't remind anyone of Patrick Stewart.

TV GuideMatt Roush

A bit generic, despite the creepy particulars of this series’ science-based mysteries--think a more mainstream "Fringe."

Washington PostDebra Leithauser

Jerry Bruckheimer of "CSI" fame is behind this series, and it shows. The production is slick; the storylines are paced and told well; and the talent is top-notch.

Los Angeles TimesRobert Lloyd

While supercool science may be the hook, the real draw of Eleventh Hour is Sewell.

Philadelphia Daily NewsEllen Gray

The plot of tonight's pilot, which involves cloning, hews closely to the original's first, dark episode. A second, included for review, seems more like a CBS show, a murder mystery I'd like to think any of the network's three "CSIs" could've knocked off as easily.

Philadelphia InquirerJonathan Storm

Both ABC's "Life on Mars" and CBS's Eleventh Hour have the comfortable feel of many shows that have come before them and lasted a long, long time.

NewsdayVerne Gay

Tonight's premiere may seem like ridiculous twaddle, and it may feel like a major downer (and kinda sloooow), too, but maybe that's just Bruckheimer playing with our heads. In fact, Hour deserves a second look (next week is definitely better).

New York PostLinda Stasi

Taken from a British series (although there is enough cribbing off American shows to make it seem all too familiar), this less-than-compelling knock-off follows Hood, who like House makes house calls--or in this case, crime calls.

Chicago Sun-TimesMisha Davenport

Hood comes across as brilliant but aloof. Young, meanwhile, seems to be angry, but the source of her anger isn't really explored (we can only assume that babysitting a scientist, no matter how brilliant, is not the job people sign up for when they go to work for the FBI).

Chicago TribuneMaureen Ryan

Eleventh Hour does what it sets out to do: It puts a talented actor (Rufus Sewell) through his crime-solving paces on rain-slicked streets, in dark warehouses and in spooky labs that look almost identical to the rain-slicked streets, dark warehouses and spooky labs on almost every other CBS drama.

USA TodayRobert Bianco

As it is, Hour arrives as yet another import procedural on a schedule that is already awash in both.

Orlando SentinelHal Boedeker

Dynamic Sewell plays brilliance with offbeat flair. The second episode, about 11-year-olds dying of heart attacks, is chilling. [But] the premiere is far-fetched yet predictable.

SlateTroy Patterson

Eleventh Hour is ambitiously shameless in patterning its counterintuitive crank of an ill-socialized hero on the Hugh Laurie character. We sent it down after nine minutes as yet another generic detective drama.

Pittsburgh Post-GazetteRob Owen

Hour fits comfortably, if unimaginatively, among CBS's other crime procedurals, but with only two regular cast members, it seems like it will have less character development than any of the "CSI" series.

PopMattersCynthia Fuchs

Hood’s methods are unconventional, Eleventh Hour insists, but still, he’s strangely bland.

The New York TimesAlessandra Stanley

Pizazz is what’s missing from CBS’s new drama, Eleventh Hour, in which Rufus Sewell plays Dr. Jacob Hood.

San Francisco ChronicleTim Goodman

Not nearly as ambitious as "Life on Mars" but entertaining nonetheless.

Entertainment WeeklyGillian Flynn

It's a procedural procedural.

Newark Star-LedgerAlan Sepinwall

Unlike "Life on Mars," the concept seems elastic enough that the show could run for a long time, but first its American producers would need to work on storytelling basics like pacing and developing interesting characters.

Miami HeraldGlenn Garvin

A little old-fashioned police brutality may seem downright appealing compared to the pseudointellectual runamok of CBS' cop drama Eleventh Hour, in which British actor Rufus Sewell plays a scientist who has regrettably turned his genius to fighting crime

Boston GlobeMatthew Gilbert

This new CBS series is just too silly, as it tries to mix up science and crime-solving like a sloppy kid with a chemistry set.

SalonHeather Havrilesky

I’d like to say that this crappy show is sure to bomb, but my faith in the intelligence of the American people is hanging in the balance right now, and since there seems to be enough dumbassery afoot to cheer on almost any half-witted scheme, I don’t want to make any assumptions.

New York MagazineJohn Leonard

I’m tempted to suggest that Eleventh Hour will only be worth watching if it acquires a sorely needed sense of humor, but maybe I’m missing some laughter in the dark.

TimeJames Poniewozik

Simultaneously gross and sanctimonious, this histrionic science procedural is mainly a warning against the cloning of TV concepts.

VarietyBrian Lowry

Unfortunately, there's not a test tube's worth of difference between this and CBS' other new drama, "The Mentalist" (that one features an advisor to the California Bureau of Investigation)--or the Eye net's procedural dramas in general.