Women's Murder Club
ABC | Release Date: October 12, 2007
CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
51
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 23 Critic Reviews
Positive:
10
Mixed:
7
Negative:
6
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
80
Orlando SentinelHal Boedeker
Season 1 Review: An appealing cast and a flashy production style bolster familiar material. Read full review
80
Pittsburgh Post-GazetteRob Owen
Season 1 Review: There's nothing gritty or particularly realistic about ABC's Women's Murder Club, but that's OK. The show is an entertaining, estrogen-powered hour regardless. Read full review
80
New York Magazine (Vulture)John Leonard
Season 1 Review: Laura Harris as Jill Bernhardt, the platinum-blonde district attorney, Paula Newsome as Claire Washburn, the surprisingly jolly medical examiner, and Aubrey Dollar as Cindy Thomas, the impossibly young newspaper reporter, do not add up to a Kaffeeklatsch or a therapy group. I’m not saying that they don’t occasionally discuss emotions (usually Angie/Lindsay’s), but it’s more grad-school seminar than touchy-feely hot-tub hangout. Read full review
80
The Hollywood ReporterRay Richmond
Season 1 Review: WMC--that's what the hip people will no doubt soon be calling it--sprints energetically from the gate carrying genuine qualitative heft: charismatic leads, snappy dialogue and an agreeable blend of lighthearted and dramatic. Read full review
80
Kansas City StarAaron Barnhart
Season 1 Review: Sharply written, compellingly acted, this is the crime procedural ABC has needed all along, one for the “Grey’s Anatomy” crowd. Read full review
80
Los Angeles TimesMary McNamara
Season 1 Review: The show looks to be a smart, stylish crime drama that just happens to revolve around a group of women as so many have revolved around men. Read full review
80
Miami HeraldGlenn Garvin
Season 1 Review: It's funny and smart, with affably quirky characters who aren't cut from cardboard. Read full review
75
New York Daily NewsDavid Hinckley
Season 1 Review: While the crime itself is only moderately intriguing, its real function is to let viewers see what each of these women does, how they work together and how they talk to each other. Read full review
75
Entertainment WeeklyGillian Flynn
Season 1 Review: Neither self-serious nor campy, the new ABC police drama is just what I've been craving amid all the businesslike "Law & Orders" and "CSIs." Read full review
63
USA TodayRobert Bianco
Season 1 Review: It would be nice if the exposition were less clunky and the show did more to capture what is special about its San Francisco setting. Still, the actors are enjoyable, and their series in large part does what it sets out to do. Read full review
50
The New York TimesAlessandra Stanley
Season 1 Review: Women’s Murder Club is all right, but not good enough. Read full review
50
Washington PostJennifer Frey
Season 1 Review: Realism, in other words, is not the show's strong suit; pretty much all of it (the detecting, the lawyering, the examining and the reporting) can be described as "lite. Read full review
50
Detroit Free PressMike Duffy
Season 1 Review: Yes, the show's glossily generic. But the attractive cast clicks. Read full review
40
VarietyPhil Gallo
Season 1 Review: Women's Murder Club has the tone of a show that's designed rather than crafted, a show more concerned about appealing to a target demographic instead of just flowing. Read full review
40
NewsdayDiane Werts
Season 1 Review: The women's friendship radiates authentic undertones, beneath all the gooed-up personal drivel, although it's way too convenient how they always show up simultaneously at the same crime scenes. Read full review
40
Seattle Post-IntelligencerMelanie McFarland
Season 1 Review: For a show like Women's Murder Club to hit its target, viewers need to feel the desire to know these people--either because their jobs are exciting or their personal lives are spicy. But with this show, there's not enough spark to their jobs or lives to keep you on the couch on a Friday night. Read full review
40
Chicago TribuneMaureen Ryan
Season 1 Review: Women’s Murder Club isn’t really a terrible show. It is efficient and well-paced, and it tries hard to breathe life into these characters. But the effort doesn’t really pay off. Read full review
30
Philadelphia Daily NewsEllen Gray
Season 1 Review: Television's a visual medium, but so much of the plot is advanced during dialogue, I actually lost track a few times and ended up rewatching sections of the episode to figure out how they'd figured out whodunit. Read full review
30
Boston GlobeMatthew Gilbert
Season 1 Review: Everything other than Harmon, who has thrown her "Law & Order" reserve out the window, feels unnatural and contrived. Read full review
30
Newark Star-LedgerAlan Sepinwall
Season 1 Review: The show inspires nothing but my apathy. Read full review
12
Chicago Sun-TimesDoug Elfman
Season 1 Review: The new debut episode climaxes with a confusingly written yet completely unoriginal plot twist at the end. And the women characters are less confident than before, frazzled and more judgmental. Read full review
0
New York PostLinda Stasi
Season 1 Review: This "women's" show is such an embarrassing mess, it makes me ashamed to be a woman. Read full review
0
San Francisco ChronicleTim Goodman
Season 1 Review: 45 minutes of bad writing, bad acting and bad storytelling. Read full review
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