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The Wanted
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Generally unfavorable reviews
Based on 8 critic reviews
How did we calculate this?
Based on 9 votes
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Show Info
Genre(s): Crime, Documentary
Created By:
Charlie Ebersol
Adam Ciralsky
First Air Date: July 20, 2009
Summary
NBC follows a group of counter-terrorism experts and journalists to find accused international terrorists.
Also On The Web: Official Show Site
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...
Washington PostTom Shales
Whatever theoretical quibbles one might make with the show's style, its substance is strong and the overall effect is a highly charged knockout.
Read Full Review >Los Angeles TimesMary McNamara
As an incitement to indignation, The Wanted is successful.... As television, the self-aggrandizing attempt of The Wanted to create a "real life" A-Team threatens to overwhelm the meaning of their mission.
Read Full Review >New York Daily NewsDavid Hinckley
The viewer at times isn't sure what's real journalistic discovery and what's scripted plot device.
Read Full Review >The New York TimesAlessandra Stanley
Reporting on The Wanted keeps being pushed aside by the demands of show business.
Read Full Review >VarietyBrian Lowry
This much, however, is certain: The Wanted represents a numbing extension of the "Predator" mindset--and provides clear grounds for serious internal soul-searching about the values of NBC News.
Read Full Review >Miami HeraldGlenn Garvin
The result of all this is neither good television nor effective law enforcement. Despite all the flickering shaky-cam images, jump-cut editing and staccato music contriving to disguise the fact, little actually happens on The Wanted.
Read Full Review >SlateTroy Patterson
Despite some others--frenetic pandering to base instincts, risible action-flick camerawork--the show nonetheless fails to amuse.
Read Full Review >Boston GlobeJoanna Weiss
If The Wanted is a news report, then MTV’s “The Hills’’ is a documentary: There’s a layer of truth, but it’s shellacked with so many coats of TV-drama gloss that it’s hard to figure out what’s real and what isn’t.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this show is 3.1 (out of 10) based on 9 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
T C gave it an8:
This show is not meant for the type of viewer who enjoys the drivel that passes for entertainment on most networks. You know, the mean-spirited supposedly funny sitcoms and painfully embarassing "reality" entertainment shows. I appreciate its efforts to treat viewers as concerned citizens of the world and applaud the producers for not believing that only the mindless watch television.
Ray in DC gave it a9:
This is the best attempt to bring the most serious issue of our time into our living rooms weekly. A for effort A for boldly going where...Kudos! Most of you are to liberal to see what these guys are trying to do. They are risking there lives for Pete's sake to ensure that we live freely.
Mike from Maine gave it a1:
I tuned in about 15 minutes into the show, and though I was watching a boring and cheesy faux documentary action show. Turns out I was watching an even more cheesy and embarrassing faux reality documentary, which, was still boring.
Fred K gave it a0:
This was just bad. An entertainment show trying to pose as a news show, and failing. The refused to interview key people, like the Norwegian foreign minister, and they cut out an interview with the Norwegian minister for Justice.It seems like they were working hard to avoid the story, and trather talk about themselves. (Like trying to make renting a car seem like a covert mission in and by itself!) Extremely bad, but it gave me a new catch-phrase: "“Norway is letting justice get in the way of justice.”
Cindi s gave it a0:
What an embarrassment...one of the only logical moments was the interview with the terrorist. At least he was straightforward and KNEW who he was and his mission. These guys are arrogant clowns.
M W gave it a0:
Freakin' awful. The Wash Post missed the boat on this one. It's something between "Dog the Bounty Hunter" (except Dog is fun to watch) and "To Catch a Predator." Crap, crap, crap. Horrible music and sound that overwhelms everything. Jump cuts, headaches, bad filming, bad interviewing. Stylistic awful and substantively wafer-thin, avoid at all costs.
