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Windfall: Season 1
  • Network: NBC
  • Series Premiere Date: Jun 8, 2006
  • Season #: 1
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Metascore
45 out of 100

Mixed or average reviews - based on 19 Critics What's this?

User Score
8.1 out of 10

Universal acclaim- based on 56 Ratings

Your Score
10 out of 10
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  • Starring: Luke Perry, Lana Parrilla, Sarah Jane Morris
  • Summary: This ensemble drama follows the lives of 20 people after they win the lottery. (For Luke Perry, getting another starring role on television IS like winning the lottery.)
  • Genre(s): Drama

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 19
  2. Mixed: 6 out of 19
  3. Negative: 8 out of 19
  1. Entertainment Weekly
    75
    Fans of the Pretty Woman shopping-montage scene... will be pleased with Windfall for sprinkling in splurges both decadent and dutiful... But... Windfall is smart enough to tighten the screws immediately.
  2. USA Today
    Reviewed by: Robert Bianco
    50
    Seldom has a set of characters worn out their welcome more quickly.
  3. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: David Hinckley
    38
    For every story line that intrigues, and every character that sparks some interest, there are several others that don't.

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User Reviews

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 35 out of 43
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 43
  3. Negative: 7 out of 43
  1. JessB
    10
    I loved Windfall!! Please Please Please have a season two!! I absolutly fell in love with the first season and i wish I knew what happens next!!
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  2. AaronB
    5
    The premise of this show at first intrigues. However, the charm wears of quite quickly leaving only a small handful of mildly interesting characters drudging their way through storylines that seemed too forced to entertain.… Expand
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  3. JoseA
    3
    There's a scene where one boy complains to his mother how the kids at school are bullying him because they know he is rich. You would think his mother would put him in private school or something, but no what she said next had me scrambling for my remote control "they'll get used to it". That was it for me.… Expand
    • 0 of 0 users said yes

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