Stalker
CBS | Release Date: October 1, 2014
CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
17
METASCORE
Overwhelming dislike based on 24 Critic Reviews
Positive:
1
Mixed:
1
Negative:
22
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
75
Boston HeraldMark A. PerigardOct 1, 2014
Season 1 Review: Stalker is the kind of show that will have you checking the locks on your door--and changing­ your Facebook status to “guarded­ by rabid pitbulls.” Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleDavid WiegandSep 29, 2014
Season 1 Review: Maggie Q and McDermott are competent, if not terribly interesting actors, and that about sums up the series as well. Read full review
30
VarietyBrian LowrySep 30, 2014
Season 1 Review: Q was great fun in “Nikita,” but here she and her castmates are stranded amid a tired series of cliches, hitched to a vehicle built on the hope “Criminal Minds” viewers will be too lazy or inert to push a button. Read full review
30
Wall Street JournalNancy DeWolf SmithSep 26, 2014
Season 1 Review: Stalker won't get the kind of respect "Dexter" did, in part because it is more overtly cheezy in the generic showbiz way. Read full review
25
St. Louis Post-DispatchGail PenningtonOct 1, 2014
Season 1 Review: Save yourself. Run from Stalker. Read full review
25
USA TodayRobert BiancoOct 1, 2014
Season 1 Review: From the time the first ghost story was told around some fire, people have enjoyed a good fright — but the prevailing feeling being provoked here is less one of terror than of abject despair. Read full review
25
Newark Star-LedgerVicki HymanSep 30, 2014
Season 1 Review: The show comes from Kevin Williamson, who created the more equal-opportunity torture porn "The Following," which at least has a literary sheen and some effective scares. Here there are just trope. Read full review
25
Uncle BarkyEd BarkSep 30, 2014
Season 1 Review: Stalker at best is an unsavory blend of violent crime, voyeurism and by-the-book preachments just in case you aren’t getting its “messages.” Read full review
25
Boston GlobeMatthew GilbertSep 15, 2014
Season 1 Review: There’s something desperate and torture porny about this show. Read full review
20
Pittsburgh Post-GazetteRob OwenOct 1, 2014
Season 1 Review: [The pilot episode] winds up having a decent if unlikely resolution to its primary mystery. Even if it’s possible to get past the ugliness of the violence against women in the pilot, it’s hard to imagine that a procedural with such a tight focus won’t get old fast. Read full review
20
The WrapMekeisha Madden TobyOct 1, 2014
Season 1 Review: Sure, one could argue that other primetime series such as Criminal Minds and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit dabble in what is best described as torture porn. But there is something especially nihilistic about Stalker ... and the way it handles violence against women. Read full review
20
New York Daily NewsDavid HinckleyOct 1, 2014
Season 1 Review: There may be a decent procedural lurking somewhere in here ... We get little payback, though, from watching a show that too often just feels uncomfortable. Read full review
20
Philadelphia InquirerDavid HiltbrandSep 30, 2014
Season 1 Review: Stalker is pure terror porn from Kevin Williamson, who gave us the Scream horror-movie franchise. Read full review
10
New York Magazine (Vulture)Matt Zoller SeitzOct 1, 2014
Season 1 Review: It's another CBS fear-mongering crime series whose end goal is to make you so scared to go outside that you stay in and watch CBS shows that make you scared to go outside. Read full review
10
Zap2it (Inside the Box)Andrea ReiherOct 1, 2014
Season 1 Review: This new CBS drama proved to be as trite and cliched as was expected, with the extra added bonus of gratuitous violence perpetrated against women that did nothing but produce a disgusted eyeroll. Read full review
10
The New York TimesNeil GenzlingerSep 30, 2014
Season 1 Review: This series works the tropes without the humor, and the result too often feels exploitive. Read full review
0
The Hollywood ReporterTim GoodmanOct 1, 2014
Season 1 Review: Stalker is a manipulative piece of shock with no dramatic value, weak writing and characters you won’t want to get invested in. Read full review
0
Los Angeles TimesMary McNamaraOct 1, 2014
Season 1 Review: The violence, creepiness and depravity appear to be the point, because nothing of value is offered in balance.... It's unforgivable. Read full review
0
TV Guide MagazineMatt RoushOct 1, 2014
Season 1 Review: TV really doesn't get much uglier or more cynical than CBS's Stalker, a crass and calculated attempt to keep the Criminal Minds crowd appeased for yet another hour of tacky, icky violence--disproportionately perpetrated against unfortunate women--presented within a glum, indifferently acted formula. Read full review
0
RogerEbert.comBrian TallericoOct 1, 2014
Season 1 Review: I’ve reviewed literally hundreds of new shows. I can think of not one program that repulsed me more than Stalker. It sounds like hyperbole, but Stalker made me feel gross. Read full review
0
NewsdayDiane WertsSep 30, 2014
Season 1 Review: It's all about the women-in-terror kick of frying them alive. (Oct. 15's episode promises a bride who's shot during her wedding.) Reprehensible. Read full review
0
The A.V. ClubGenevieve ValentineSep 29, 2014
Season 1 Review: Stalker is only vaguely concerned with victim psychology. As a show that must, by its very premise, pick sides, Stalker tips eagerly toward the wrong one. Read full review
0
Washington PostHank StueverSep 19, 2014
Season 1 Review: Stalker doesn’t give viewers any good reason to stick around. Read full review
0
The Huffington PostMaureen RyanSep 17, 2014
Season 1 Review: This shoddy program is nothing more than exploitative, misogynist trash. Read full review
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