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The Black Donnellys: Season 1
  • Network: NBC
  • Series Premiere Date: Feb 26, 2007
  • Season #: 1
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Metascore
45 out of 100

Mixed or average reviews - based on 30 Critics What's this?

User Score
8.7 out of 10

Universal acclaim- based on 211 Ratings

Your Score
10 out of 10
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  • Starring: Kirk Acevedo, Olivia Wilde, Jonathan Tucker
  • Summary: From "Crash" director and writers Paul Haggis and Bobby Moresco comes this organized crime drama centering on an Irish-American family in New York City.
  • Genre(s): Drama
  • Creator: Paul Haggis, Robert Moresco
  • Show Type: Ended
  • Season 1 premiere date: Feb 26, 2007
  • Episode Length: 60
  • Air Time: 10:00 PM
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Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 10 out of 30
  2. Mixed: 8 out of 30
  3. Negative: 12 out of 30
  1. Kansas City Star
    Reviewed by: Aaron Barnhart
    80
    It feels like Haggis and Moresco are picking up right where "EZ Streets" left off.
  2. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Ken Tucker
    58
    Haggis equates the slow revealing of character and plot with classy writing; you'll probably experience it as stuff you can see coming a mile away.
  3. Orlando Sentinel
    Reviewed by: Hal Boedeker
    30
    The Black Donnellys is not top of the world... or the second coming of The Sopranos. The new drama is old wine poured into fancy, contemporary bottles.

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User Reviews

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 133 out of 148
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 148
  3. Negative: 13 out of 148
  1. fyzaha
    10
    Will the network see these votes? If so, the drive is to bring back this drama, and they should consider what the viewers would like!
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  2. FernandoA
    4
    The show had some good acting on the part of the main couple, but the whole setup was implausible and the writing was full of cliches, starting with the unsufferable narrator. I am glad it did not last.… Expand
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  3. BobbyD
    3
    I agree with Fernando, especially about the narrator. The whole show just seemed very false, like it was a world based on other movies rather than a reality.… Expand
    • 0 of 0 users said yes

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