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Killer Instinct

EMAILPRINTSERIES: Fox, Friday 9:00p (60 minutes)

Killer Instinct
25
8.5 User Score:

Generally unfavorable reviews

Based on 13 critic reviews
How did we calculate this?

Based on 56 votes
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Show Info

Genre(s): Crime, Drama

Created By: Josh Berman

First Air Date: September 23, 2005

Summary

Starring Johnny Messner, Chi McBride, and Kristin Lehman

Attempting to out-gore CSI, Fox's violent new procedural is set in the San Francisco Police Department's "Deviant Crimes Unit."

What The Critics Said

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...

100

Entertainment WeeklyGillian Flynn

The best worst series on TV. [30 Sep 2005, p.89]

38

New York Daily NewsDavid Hinckley

It's a show so determined to shock that it cares more about that than about such things as compelling lead characters, believable situations or inventively solved mysteries.

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30

Boston GlobeMatthew Gilbert

It's not awful, exactly, but it's so willfully bleak as to become monotonous.

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30

Hollywood ReporterRay Richmond

There is a lot of "The Silence of the Lambs" in Fox's creepy new "Killer Instinct," but not enough to make it compelling rather than simply icky.

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30

Los Angeles TimesRobert Lloyd

With its soundtrack full of metal and techno and its killers packing imported deadly spiders and home surgery kits, it aims for a Gothic moodiness not unrelated to the season's scary-monster shows.

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30

VarietyBrian Lowry

Lifeless and uninspired.

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25

USA TodayRobert Bianco

The season's worst show.

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20

The New York TimesVirginia Heffernan

Pervasively disappointing.

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20

Miami HeraldGlenn Garvin

A mess.

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0

Chicago TribuneMaureen Ryan

Nothing could really prepare anyone for a show so wantonly grisly as this worthless, exploitative program.

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0

Detroit Free PressMike Duffy

This is entertainment? Awful.

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0

Pittsburgh Post-GazetteRob Owen

A sadistic series that, underneath its ghastly veneer, is just a dull, unoriginal crime drama.

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0

San Francisco ChronicleTim Goodman

You won't see any worse acting across the broadcast spectrum. The women-in-peril scenes are vile. The writing is atrocious. The series is horrifically bad. And not in a way that would make a good drinking game.

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What Our Users Said

The average user rating for this show is 8.5 (out of 10) based on 56 User Votes

Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

[Anonymous] gave it a10:
i love Johnny messner!!! he's very very very... cool!! The best.i think .k.i. is very good . i want the second! i'm italian and i have seen all the 13 episodes. The last was excellent.

Lj H gave it a9:
Really interesting show. Good characters, good chemistry, good ideas! Get it back!

Cristina O gave it a10:
For some reason I didn't think it would be much, but I decided to give it a shot and I loved it. The whole deal: the acting, the stories, the production.

Kevin S gave it a10:
Super!! 2nd favo series my number 1 is still Lost

debs c gave it a10:
great show not the usual predictable rubbish

Heather H gave it a10:
Johnny Messner is an amazing actor. Period. They really messed up when they took this show off of the air. I really miss it.

cal h gave it an8:
Why does tv have to be 'reality' style or deep and meaningfull to be good? Killer Instinct was fun to watch, pure entertainment!

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