• Network: FX
  • Series Premiere Date: Sep 8, 2010
  • Season #: 1
Terriers Image
Metascore

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

User Score

Universal acclaim- based on 101 Ratings

  • 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, Drama
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 21 out of 24
  2. Negative: 1 out of 24
  1. 100
    Here's one of the most offbeat new shows of the new season. Also one of the best. [13 Sep 2010, p.48]
  2. Terriers is unlike any private detective series and it more than upholds FX's tradition of original programming with clever writing and solid acting.
  3. 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.
  4. Reviewed by: Verne Gay
    25
    It's lackadaisical, weary, bland and off-center.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 30 out of 32
  2. Negative: 1 out of 32
  1. "Terriers" is currently my favorite show. It's smart, funny, well written, and well acted. Best written show I've seen in awhile. Dialogue and story telling. The characters are so well drawn. Complex and real. I don't see how anyone wouldn't get absorbed in Hank's and Britt's lives, if they give the show a chance. Too bad more people aren't watching. It's much better than any program on network. I hope FX sticks with it based on critical reception. Expand
  2. 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. Collapse
  3. Two weeks ago, my Dad was bemoaning the fact that there werenâ
  4. 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

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