Bionic Woman
NBC | Release Date: September 26, 2007
CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
57
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 28 Critic Reviews
Positive:
12
Mixed:
8
Negative:
8
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
80
The Hollywood ReporterBarry Garron
Season 1 Review: Under Michael Dinner's steady directorial hand, it's dark, tense and conspiratorial, a far cry from the camp sci-fi tricks of its predecessor. Read full review
80
Los Angeles TimesMary McNamara
Season 1 Review: It's not your mother's Bionic Woman. It's much, much better. Read full review
80
Washington PostTom Shales
Season 1 Review: NBC's lavish and splashy new version of Bionic Woman, is not, as one might fear, a BW stripped of everything that fans loved about the '70s original. Read full review
80
SlateTroy Patterson
Season 1 Review: Sarah Corvus has arrived to haunt and to taunt, to give our plucky heroine a sinister contrast that the show can't do without. Read full review
80
Baltimore SunDavid Zurawik
Season 1 Review: Just the right mix of camp, witchiness, special-effects and hand-to-hand combat. Read full review
80
Miami HeraldGlenn Garvin
Season 1 Review: Intelligent and entertaining reimaginations of stupefyingly bad pieces of 1970s sci-fi hackwork. Read full review
80
PopMattersCynthia Fuchs
Season 1 Review: The girls, though, look promising. Granted, the initial Sarah-Jamie fight scene occasions the series’ first spectacular special-effectsy scene. Read full review
75
Entertainment WeeklyGillian Flynn
Season 1 Review: Too much? Yes, too much! And yet, it's one of those moments you just have to shrug at and enjoy. Read full review
70
VarietyBrian Lowry
Season 1 Review: A little messy in its conception, the series still exhibits considerable potential--the kind that inspires checking out a second episode. Read full review
70
SalonHeather Havrilesky
Season 1 Review: I also really enjoyed NBC's Bionic Woman. There's lots of super-powered action, I like regular-girl Michelle Ryan as Jaime Sommers, and best of all, Katee Sackhoff (Starbuck from "Battlestar Galactica") plays the eeeeevil former bionic woman, Sarah Corvus. Read full review
70
Pittsburgh Post-GazetteRob Owen
Season 1 Review: This Bionic Woman pilot is a downbeat drag, but buried somewhere beneath all the moping is an intriguing show that might yet emerge. Read full review
70
Boston GlobeMatthew Gilbert
Season 1 Review: A sleekly engaging pilot that, with the right character development, could turn into a sleekly engaging series. Read full review
60
Kansas City StarAaron Barnhart
Season 1 Review: Like young Jaime, it's going to take awhile for this show to find its artificial legs. Read full review
60
The New York TimesAlessandra Stanley
Season 1 Review: NBC’s show, which is more about fembot martial arts and slick “Matrix”-ish special effects than about character development, is oriented toward young male viewers. Read full review
60
New York Magazine (Vulture)John Leonard
Season 1 Review: The unnecessary reimagining from executive producer David Eick, is a lot darker than the 1976 original Read full review
50
Philadelphia Daily NewsEllen Gray
Season 1 Review: There's a distinct "Alias" overtone to her initiation into the dark side of the force. If I'd liked "Alias," this might have me all excited. But I didn't, so I'm not. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleTim Goodman
Season 1 Review: Ryan seems too inert, not nearly aggressive enough for the role. Read full review
50
Chicago TribuneMaureen Ryan
Season 1 Review: Bionic Woman, the disappointingly average remake of the Lindsay Wagner vehicle from the ’70s, comes to life. Read full review
50
Seattle Post-IntelligencerMelanie McFarland
Season 1 Review: Now we're back to Bionic Woman and Jaime Sommers--only under the surgical knife of executive producer David Eick, who had a hand in reshaping "Battlestar Galactica" to suit modern sensibilities, the rebuilt is wussier and darker than Wagner ever was. Read full review
50
Detroit Free PressMike Duffy
Season 1 Review: Despite her extreme makeover, this new Bionic Woman is mostly slick, dull and portentously sullen. Read full review
38
New York Daily NewsDavid Hinckley
Season 1 Review: It doesn't bode well for this series, however, that tonight's premiere features a magnetic, dynamic, no-nonsense female cyborg who steals every scene she's in--and it isn't Ryan as Jaime Sommers. Read full review
38
New York PostAdam Buckman
Season 1 Review: This show is so cliched that it actually contains one of those scenes in which a camera makes a slow, 360-degree circle around Jaime as she gazes skyward. Read full review
37
USA TodayRobert Bianco
Season 1 Review: Alas, while it's fine to have a villain who is more colorful than your hero, it's not so fine to have a supporting actor who makes your star vanish whenever they're on screen together. It makes you think that what this remake of a spinoff really needs is a spinoff of its own. Read full review
30
Newark Star-LedgerAlan Sepinwall
Season 1 Review: Jamie is our heroine, the one we're supposed to like and care about, but as played by British actress Ryan ("EastEnders," "Jekyll"), she's a mopey blank, badly upstaged every time Sackhoff makes one of her all-too-brief appearances as Corvus. Read full review
30
Philadelphia InquirerJonathan Storm
Season 1 Review: The whole place could use more lights so you could see what was going on. Read full review
25
Slant MagazineBrian Holcomb
Season 1 Review: This Bionic Woman does not fail to live up to the original, it fails to live up to all of the other programs it wants to emulate instead. Read full review
20
Orlando SentinelHal Boedeker
Season 1 Review: Dim. Ryan is not to blame. Jaime, rebuilt after a horrific car accident, must live in a grim, punishing world and associate with joyless characters. Speedy Jaime can't outrun this train wreck. Read full review
20
NewsdayDiane Werts
Season 1 Review: NBC's new Bionic Woman remake is a desolate slab of ice where any resemblance to human beings - alive, dead or cyborgian--is purely coincidental. It's hard to imagine a bigger modernized mess being made Read full review
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