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Stylista: Season 1
  • Network: The CW
  • Series Premiere Date: Oct 22, 2008
  • Season #: 1
Metascore
57 out of 100

Mixed or average reviews - based on 15 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 15
  2. Mixed: 6 out of 15
  3. Negative: 2 out of 15
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  1. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Linda Stasi
    75
    The show is a lot of fun. Like playing dress-up when you were a kid--and about as realistic.
  2. Chicago Tribune
    Reviewed by: Maureen Ryan
    75
    Still, like the second season of "Tim Gunn's Guide to Style," which is airing now on Bravo, this show may work for you if you're looking for a turn-off-your-brain escape.
  3. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Ginia Bellafante
    70
    Stylista, which begins on Wednesday on CW, is selling itself as "The Devil Wears Prada" in reality-television form. But it may even surpass its predecessor as a treatise on the empty ambition and distaste for civility that girds so much of Seventh Avenue.
  4. Slate
    Reviewed by: Troy Patterson
    70
    Viewers of a particular sensibility--that is, mine--will find themselves unwholesomely engaged by the tone Stylista brings to scenes about laying out sidebars and rethinking silly hats.
  5. Philadelphia Daily News
    Reviewed by: Ellen Gray
    70
    Stylista, which injects drama into the simple act of getting breakfast for the boss, offers other small surprises, but it's not without its icky moments.
  6. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
    Reviewed by: Rob Owen
    70
    Stylista is a guilty pleasure thanks to its cast of catfighting, bickering characters, including one who is hospitalized following a panic attack in episode two.
  7. Newsday
    Reviewed by: Verne Gay
    67
    I do know something about TV shows, and this one works best when Anne Slowey is on camera (which is not nearly enough) and the program focuses on clothing - that great, exasperating, endlessly complicated art form known as "fashion."
  8. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: David Hinckley
    60
    A competition to find a junior editor for Elle magazine, where Slowey is fashion news editor, differs from a two-hour drama in enough ways so the TV show doesn't have quite the same charm. It's fun. Just not as much.
  9. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Robert Lloyd
    60
    Except in the decorative details, it is exactly the same as every other gimme-a-job reality show ever made, with the contestants all banged up in a fancy dormitory from which they disappear one by one after themed weekly challenges.
  10. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Tom Shales
    60
    Stylista is--what is the phrase?--like a little tick that you want to flick off, but it's no worse than other reality games that have come before and will come after.
  11. Variety
    Reviewed by: Brian Lowry
    50
    Throw a bouquet, then, strictly to the casting folks for the assortment of types they've assembled. Beyond that, Stylista qualifies as fierce, to borrow producer Tyra Banks' phraseology, only in its steadfast commitment to copying the same old models.
  12. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Jessica Shaw
    42
    Sorry, Elle fashion-news director Anne Slowey, you're no Miranda Priestly, and this reality competition, which awards a junior editorship at her magazine, is no "Apprentice."
  13. Boston Globe
    Reviewed by: Joanna Weiss
    40
    The contestants are full-blown neurotics, and neophytes to boot: They're so young, inexperienced, and catty that they're difficult to like and even harder to watch.
  14. Miami Herald
    Reviewed by: Glenn Garvin
    30
    Its essential shallowness is on display from the very start, when 11 contestants for a junior editor's job at the fashion magazine Elle are issued their first challenge: Bring the boss breakfast.
  15. USA Today
    Reviewed by: Robert Bianco
    25
    Gratuitously cruel and mind-numbingly dull, Stylista pretends to be "fashion forward" while it apes everything that has gone before.
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