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Killer Instinct
SERIES: Fox, Friday 9:00p (60 minutes)


8.7

based on 13 reviews
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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."

GENRE(S):	Crime, Drama
CREATED BY:	Josh Berman
FIRST AIR DATE:	September 23, 2005
LAST AIR DATE:	December 2, 2005

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100

Entertainment Weekly Gillian Flynn

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

New York Daily News David 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.

Boston Globe Matthew Gilbert

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

Hollywood Reporter Ray 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.

Los Angeles Times Robert 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.

Variety Brian Lowry

Lifeless and uninspired.

USA Today Robert Bianco

The season's worst show.

The New York Times Virginia Heffernan

Pervasively disappointing.

Miami Herald Glenn Garvin

A mess.

Chicago Tribune Maureen Ryan

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

Detroit Free Press Mike Duffy

This is entertainment? Awful.

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Rob Owen

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

San Francisco Chronicle Tim 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.

The average user rating for this tv show is 8.7 (out of 10) based on 55 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!

Killer Instinct SERIES: Fox, Friday 9:00p (60 minutes)

Killer Instinct
SERIES: Fox, Friday 9:00p (60 minutes)