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V: Season 1
  • Network: ABC
  • Series Premiere Date: Nov 3, 2009
  • Season #: 1 , 2
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Metascore
67 out of 100

Generally favorable reviews - based on 23 Critics What's this?

User Score
6.5 out of 10

Generally favorable reviews- based on 145 Ratings

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  • Summary: The 1980s series about aliens who appear human and peaceful is remade as a split miniseries, with the second part airing sometime early next year.
  • Genre(s): Drama

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 15 out of 23
  2. Mixed: 8 out of 23
  3. Negative: 0 out of 23
  1. Chicago Tribune
    Reviewed by: Maureen Ryan
    88
    The pilot for this drama is good. I have a few quibbles with it--some of the character drama is a bit clunky--but overall, I found the first hour of the show to be solidly entertaining and suitably suspenseful.
  2. USA Today
    Reviewed by: Robert Bianco
    88
    ABC can add to that list of achievements the season's most entertaining new hour, straightforward division: V.
  3. Slate
    Reviewed by: Troy Patterson
    50
    Indeed, if the show is to have the symbolic import that we expect from a science-fiction story, this is the only possible way to read V as a coherent text. The only problem with this analysis lies in its generous presupposition that the text is, in fact, coherent.

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User Reviews

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 35 out of 67
  2. Mixed: 15 out of 67
  3. Negative: 17 out of 67
  1. ChristianC.
    10
    I was very skeptical being a "devoted" fan of the original. Pace was way to fast but left me hanging on the edge of my seat wanting more. ABC has a winner and V is back!… Expand
    • 2 of 2 users said yes
  2. CritiqueGirl
    5
    It really cannot move more slowly than this and still stay on TV. I am really disappointed as I had been looking forward to a great sci-fi show. Good acting which is wasted on a so-so script.… Expand
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  3. CG
    3
    Lazy writing: - Too much exposition. - Characters are unbelievably stupid. - Dialog is not believable Don't like the direction they are taking: - Not enough mystery, doesn't really make you think or wonder.... it is what it is - paper thin.… Expand
    • 0 of 0 users said yes

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