Scorpion
CBS | Release Date: September 22, 2014
CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
48
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 24 Critic Reviews
Positive:
4
Mixed:
15
Negative:
5
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
80
New York Daily NewsDavid HinckleySep 22, 2014
Season 1 Review: It’s hard to explain why it all works, except it does. Read full review
75
USA TodayRobert BiancoSep 22, 2014
Season 1 Review: They [the Scorpion team] may be absurd, but they're enjoyable as long as you don't think about them too deeply. (Or, in the case of a final stunt with a car and an airplane, at all.) Read full review
70
Zap2it (Inside the Box)Sarah HugginsSep 22, 2014
Season 1 Review: All in all--the action will draw viewers in and the loveable characters will keep them for the long haul. Read full review
67
HitfixAlan SepinwallSep 22, 2014
Season 1 Review: It's a dumb pilot directed by "Fast & Furious" franchise caretaker Justin Lin, which means there are multiple car chases that kick ass, including one near the end that's as fun as it is completely ridiculous. Read full review
60
Philadelphia InquirerDavid HiltbrandSep 22, 2014
Season 1 Review: Scorpion has a really cool and grabby pilot that moves at a jolting, jackrabbit pace. But the episode has the unmistakable aura of a magic trick. Read full review
50
Newark Star-LedgerVicki HymanSep 22, 2014
Season 1 Review: Eddie Kaye Thomas is fun as the occasionally felonious brainiac psychologist, but the rest of the characters are pretty one-dimensional, that one dimension being their social awkwardness. Read full review
50
The Hollywood ReporterTim GoodmanSep 22, 2014
Season 1 Review: A very good idea but executed in the pilot with too much sap and manipulation. Read full review
50
TV Guide MagazineMatt RoushSep 22, 2014
Season 1 Review: [A] derivative but diverting caper. Read full review
50
PopMattersChris ConatonSep 22, 2014
Season 1 Review: For all the characters’ feeble development, though, Scorpion doesn’t drag. And Lin’s action sequences at the end look great as well as ludicrous. Read full review
50
VarietyBrian LowrySep 19, 2014
Season 1 Review: The participants in this mildy fun yet wholly disposable exercise would be wise not to dwell on calculating their chances of network survival. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleDavid WiegandSep 18, 2014
Season 1 Review: The show isn’t terribly believable.... The cast is fine, except for McPhee. Read full review
50
RogerEbert.comBrian TallericoSep 18, 2014
Season 1 Review: It’s a well-paced diversion after a long Monday night. Read full review
50
Boston GlobeMatthew GilbertSep 15, 2014
Season 1 Review: It’s just another case-of-the-week procedural, and McPhee seems out of place. Read full review
50
Entertainment WeeklyRay RahmanSep 12, 2014
Season 1 Review: Given the times, TV is overdue for a clever hacker thriller. This is not it. [19/26 Sep 2014, p.127] Read full review
42
NewsdayVerne GaySep 19, 2014
Season 1 Review: The plot is slight, the resolution a laugher and the characters basically stick figures. Scorpion has its fun moments, but not enough of them. Read full review
42
Uncle BarkyEd BarkSep 19, 2014
Season 1 Review: There’s considerable techno-talk in the premiere episode, with little of it making much sense. Read full review
40
The New York TimesNeil GenzlingerSep 22, 2014
Season 1 Review: Old-fashioned acting is too often replaced by the never-exciting sight of someone poking urgently at a computer. Scorpion tries to compensate for this with a high-adrenaline pace, but that can lead to its own kind of weariness. Read full review
40
Pittsburgh Post-GazetteRobert BiancoSep 22, 2014
Season 1 Review: If Scorpion were better suited to today’s TV landscape instead of bringing to mind a TV series from 30 years ago, it could be an of-the-moment series worth watching. But it’s not. Read full review
40
The Huffington PostMaureen RyanSep 17, 2014
Season 1 Review: Well, this is a pile of nonsense, but at least it's more or less inoffensive nonsense. Read full review
37
Chicago Sun-TimesLori RacklSep 22, 2014
Season 1 Review: The addition of a misunderstood, brilliant kid belonging to a diner waitress unconvincingly played by Katharine McPhee doesn’t help. Read full review
33
The A.V. ClubBrandon NowalkSep 22, 2014
Season 1 Review: Scorpion feels like a world cut down to types. Read full review
30
New York Magazine (Vulture)Margaret LyonsSep 22, 2014
Season 1 Review: Scorpion tries to get action-heavy in its final act, with the brain trust preventing an aviation disaster at LAX, and for a brief interlude, the show has a glimmer of momentum--but it's undercut by how ludicrous the whole setup is, how unnatural the dialogue is, and how impossible it feels to care what happens to any of these people. Read full review
30
The OregonianKristi TurnquistSep 19, 2014
Season 1 Review: The brainy nerds are a stereotypical band of socially awkward types. Not helping lighten the cliché load is Katharine McPhee as the mother of a boy who's also a budding tech prodigy. Read full review
0
Washington PostHank StueverSep 19, 2014
Season 1 Review: It’s a show about geniuses that gets stupider and stupider until it explodes. Read full review
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