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Terriers: Season 1
  • Network: FX
  • Series Premiere Date: Sep 8, 2010
  • Season #: 1
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Metascore
75 out of 100

Generally favorable reviews - based on 24 Critics What's this?

User Score
8.8 out of 10

Universal acclaim- based on 93 Ratings

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  • Summary: Donal Logue plays Hank, an ex-cop who partners with his best friend to launch a P.I. business. The duo solve crimes while trying to avoid danger and responsibility.
  • Genre(s): Comedy

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 21 out of 24
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 24
  3. Negative: 1 out of 24
  1. People Weekly
    Reviewed by: Tom Gliatto
    100
    Here's one of the most offbeat new shows of the new season. Also one of the best. [13 Sep 2010, p.48]
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  2. Slate
    Reviewed by: Troy Patterson
    50
    A typical episode of Terriers jolts abruptly from cutesy escapades to head-cracking fights, from loud escapism to misty tenderness, from easygoing comedy to strained seriousness. The tonal unevenness feels less like the conscious product of an ambitious design than the unplanned consequence of an exceedingly ambitious one.
  3. Newsday
    Reviewed by: Verne Gay
    25
    It's lackadaisical, weary, bland and off-center.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 27 out of 29
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 29
  3. Negative: 1 out of 29
  1. MarcDoyle
    8
    I loved the "feel" of the first episode. The cast is great (including the love interests of the two lead actors), and the guy from True Blood is a treat as the side-kick to the mangy lead. It has that Fletch feel, but the characters are less snarky and more accessible.… Expand
    • 4 of 4 users said yes
  2. anlondubh
    5
    Don't have much to say, I saw the pilot its well made and has a mood or feel to it. It is well acted and pretty well put together. But it just bored me, alot.… Expand
    • 0 of 1 users said yes
  3. MitchC9
    3
    Terriers begins a right ship that heads in the completely wrong direction. The two main stars have great chemistry outside of "Hank" being unrealistically altruistic at times. The episode by episode cases as well as multi-episode plots than transpire in the first half dozen episodes are well paced, however this is unfortunately a short lived peak for the show. We are then treated to soap opera like themes, endless cliffhanger sub-plots, uninspired cases and no overall direction related to the fact that they are two guys doing PI work. If you are looking for cases of romance and infidelity this is your show. If you are looking for a show mainly about two guys and their endeavors as PIs this is not a good place to look,… Expand
    • 0 of 2 users said yes

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