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Six Degrees
SERIES: ABC, Thursday 10:00p (60 minutes)


9.0

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Starring Erika Christensen, Hope Davis, Jay Hernandez, Dorian Missick, Bridget Moynahan, and Campbell Scott

This mysterious, J.J. Abrams-produced drama follows a group of six strangers in New York who are drawn together through a series of coincidences and interactions. Sadly, there's no Kevin Bacon to be found.

GENRE(S):	Drama
CREATED BY:	Raven Metzner Stuart Zicherman
FIRST AIR DATE:	September 21, 2006

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New York Post Adam Buckman

It is no small feat to pull off the trick of interweaving so many characters and storylines, but the producers of "Six Degrees"... have accomplished it with admirable smoothness for a series that is just getting under way.

Boston Globe Matthew Gilbert

The ABC show... is one of the pleasures of the new season, although it may strike some viewers as too conceptually loose to love.

Variety Phil Gallo

[The] pilot is cleverly written giving the characters a heady, just-specific-enough mix of mystery, intrigue and charm.

Time James Poniewozik

It's a drama of chance with enough charm to roll the dice on.

Hollywood Reporter Barry Garron

If the stories aren't entirely convincing, the actors are.

Chicago Tribune Maureen Ryan

It’s a slender conceit for a television show but also a novel one. And the romantic sense of yearning that infuses “Six Degrees” is refreshing in a TV schedule full of corpses and cops.

Miami Herald Glenn Garvin

Six Degrees starts off almost as an anthology series, with six stories set in six different worlds, each one quite interesting. But as their orbits draw closer, interest rapidly morphs into fascination.

Philadelphia Inquirer Jonathan Storm

The whole web would unravel if each character weren't so interesting all by his or her own lonesome self.

The New York Times Virginia Heffernan

But the particular stories are not what “Six Degrees” is ultimately about. Instead the show’s forte, for viewers like me who don’t mind piety on television, is its ambience of faith.

Newsday Verne Gay

A reasonably competent soap.

Philadelphia Daily News Ellen Gray

[It] so far boasts characters more intriguing than their interactions.

Los Angeles Times Robert Lloyd

New York also offers the gift of its locations, which are used abundantly and give the show a sense of reality its script does not always earn. (The actors take up the rest of the slack.)

LA Weekly Robert Abele

A pleasantly diverting bumper-car drama of chance encounters, new friendships and random triggers.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer Melanie McFarland

No series following an easy delight like "Grey's Anatomy" should be this much of a downer.

San Francisco Chronicle Tim Goodman

It's not compelling at all.

San Jose Mercury News Charlie McCollum

It's an intriguing premise but one that comes off a bit strained in the opening hour and leaves you with the feeling that you have no idea where the show is going.

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Rob Owen

The concept is unique, the performances solid or better, but when so many similar shows are competing for attention from viewers who are only willing to commit so much time to watching ongoing TV series, "Six Degrees" just isn't good enough.

USA Today Robert Bianco

Six Degrees certainly clips along, but moving quickly between insipid links and boring characters doesn't make them any less insipid or boring.

Chicago Sun-Times Doug Elfman

The first episode doesn't measure up to the actors' capabilities, but there is a fantastic amount of promise.

New York Daily News David Hinckley

In theory, it's an intriguing concept for a series. But in practice, "Six Degrees" doesn't work at all in drawing you in at the start.

People Weekly Tom Gliatto

The show's a letdown, especially since it comes with one of the most lovingly assembled casts of any series. [9 Oct 2006, p.41]

Entertainment Weekly Dalton Ross

Six Degrees fancies itself as clever but is really little more than a one-trick pony. Even worse, that trick pony is pretty damn lame. [22 Sep 2006, p.89]

Newark Star-Ledger Alan Sepinwall

A gimmick in search of a show.

Detroit Free Press Mike Duffy

A pretty bland romantic confection.

The New Yorker Tad Friend

The show is laced with wit and blessed with fine actors... Yet the coincidences that bring the show’s six wayfarers together to form their own little island on the big island are vexingly hokey.

New York Magazine John Leonard

Tedious.

Washington Post Tom Shales

It's lame and it's limp, and as deployed for "Six Degrees," the conceit would seem to owe quite a bit to the movie "Crash," among such other more antique inspirations as "The Bridge of San Luis Rey."

The average user rating for this tv show is 9.0 (out of 10) based on 71 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Susan W gave it a9:
I hope they bring this back for a second season, it would be interesting to find out where all the characters have came from and where they will end up. Please bring this back!

heaven t. gave it a5:
dead boring.

lily s. gave it a10:
I think this is a great show. It is a shame that ABC is going to cancel it. I think the problem is that ABC didn't advertise it enough.

Rachel V gave it a10:
I love this show!!!!!

joy d. gave it a10:
this is one of the smartest, urban scripts and shows on tv. BRING IT BACK!!!!

Shanna L. gave it a9:
I loved this show! It was one of the few I never missed. I don't understand the why it didn't rate well.

Anthony W. gave it a10:
I'll be honest with you, I don't watch much TV. When I do, it's usually a movie, or a Discovery/History channel type show. But when I found by chance that ABC was putting many of their shows on the Internet, I decided to check it out. Six Degrees hooked me with the premiere, and I've watched every show that's online. It's intelligent and powerful, the actors are outstanding, and the writers brilliant. Who knows what the real reason is for the shows failure? Maybe there's a serious decline in the intelligence level of adults in America today; maybe we're too blood thirsty, or maybe ABC simply had too many trite shows in the lineup? Oh well, next!

Six Degrees SERIES: ABC, Thursday 10:00p (60 minutes)

Six Degrees
SERIES: ABC, Thursday 10:00p (60 minutes)