American Gothic (2016)
CBS | Release Date: June 22, 2016
CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
51
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 23 Critic Reviews
Positive:
7
Mixed:
13
Negative:
3

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
30
Yahoo TVKen TuckerJun 21, 2016
Season 1 Review: The new project’s creation is credited to Corinne Brinkerhoff (The Good Wife; Jane the Virgin), whose previous work seems too smart for what’s going on in American Gothic. I will prefer to think that, like the people in another CBS show created by her former employers, her brain has been momentarily invaded by BrainDead’s alien ants. Read full review
25
San Francisco ChronicleDavid WiegandJun 21, 2016
Season 1 Review: American Gothic is badly written, which means that the actors don’t have enough to work with to achieve anything more than fleeting credibility. Read full review
10
The Hollywood ReporterTim GoodmanJun 22, 2016
Season 1 Review: American Gothic is about a bunch of good actors who got suckered into a really bad series. Read full review
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