Moonlight

Entertainment WeeklyStaff (Not Credited)

Sure, Mick's life is ridiculoous, but you don't go lookin' for realism between "Ghost Whisperer" and "Numb3rs." [05 Oct 2007, p.67]

USA TodayRobert Bianco

Moonlight. It's basically "Angel" without the search-for-a-soul underpinnings that gave Angel depth, and with a more ponderous script and less adept cast.

Hollywood ReporterBarry Garron

The focus is on the dangerous and forbidden relationship between Mick and Beth and his efforts to keep his past a secret. Whether there's enough material there to knit together a series remains to be seen.

Washington PostTom Shales

It doesn't go quite far enough into uncharted territory but gets off to a basically promising start nonetheless.

Detroit Free PressMike Duffy

Moonlight falls somewhere in the middle of the new paranormal pack. It's neither great nor awful.

Chicago Sun-TimesDoug Elfman

What's not fun? At least half of the rest of the show.

PopMattersMichael Abernethy

With a winning lead player and supporting cast, plus an interesting premise, Moonlight has potential.

Kansas City StarAaron Barnhart

While it is formulaic and slow-paced, Moonlight is stylish entertainment with a charming star aimed at a specific audience--the folks who stay home Friday night and watch CBS.

Pittsburgh Post-GazetteRob Owen

Moonlight is just a weak, generic private-eye drama with a vampire story overlay.

San Jose Mercury News/Contra Costa TimesCharlie McCollum

It's just sort of an underwritten mess.

Newark Star-LedgerAlan Sepinwall

The show plays like bad imitation noir where the private eye can occasionally sink his teeth into the villain.

Los Angeles TimesMary McNamara

Something got lost between concept and execution, and instead of suspense we get silliness

NewsdayDiane Werts

Alex O'Loughlin is bogged down by trite dialogue, half-hearted support, perfunctory exposition, and better-to-look-good-than-make-sense production priorities.

New York PostLinda Stasi

Moonlight, unfortunately, doesn't trust its audience and so falls to exposition via a fake talk-show interview at the beginning, and then throughout with dialogue dully delivered by Internet investigative reporter Beth Turner (Sophia Myles).

VarietyBrian Lowry

[Mick and Beth's] across-the-decades bond, however, doesn't compensate for how pedestrian the initial story is -- playing like a conventional detective show, with Mick showcasing his otherworldly powers (strong, and very, very fast) only during a passable action sequence in the final act.

Philadelphia InquirerJonathan Storm

It's hardly bloodcurdling adventure, but it doesn't bite.

Chicago TribuneMaureen Ryan

The direction is flat-out awful (there are many choppy shots from bizarre, if not inexplicable, angles). Much of the dialogue is groan-inducing, the acting by some of the guest actors is jaw-droppingly wooden, and I guessed who the villain was way before the halfway mark.

Miami HeraldGlenn Garvin

The hacky writing is interchangeable with any of CBS' police procedurals, and the boy-band good looks of Alex O'Loughlin as the detective, Mick St. John, inspire neither fear nor dark sexual longings

The New York TimesGinia Bellafante

In almost every way, Moonlight demands that we question the grounds for its existence.

Boston GlobeMatthew Gilbert

Much of Moonlight is amateurish, but nothing is more amateurish than the artificial chemistry between O'Loughlin and Myles.

Philadelphia Daily NewsEllen Gray

I don't know exactly why Moonlight, which acquired "Veronica Mars'" adorable bad boy, Jason Dohring, as a second-round draft pick, seems so very lifeless.

New York Daily NewsDavid Hinckley

This one is almost impressively wonderless.

San Francisco ChronicleTim Goodman

It's just heinous. Absurd, laughable, painful to watch--you name it, Moonlight has it all.

Seattle Post-IntelligencerMelanie McFarland

This vampire detective show (sorry, can't resist this) is one that first bites, then sucks. Hard.