Birds of Prey

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Season 1
User Score
6.7

Generally favorable reviews- based on 17 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 10 out of 17
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 17
  3. Negative: 6 out of 17

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  1. RicochetPhoenix
    Sep 19, 2011
    4
    This seemed to have potential...but just came across as kinda cheap and bland. I wanted to like it, but it's really just a creative waste of time and not worth even looking into or checking out. Just pass on it. Blah.
  2. Rox22
    Feb 15, 2013
    8
    I actually really liked this show and thought it was a shame it was just one season. A real shame as you can see that it has such great potential. While it obviously is working on a limited budget, what they do with it is not bad and with a bit more refinement and investment, it could have been the next Smallville. Character are good and more or less not a bad adaptation of the comics,I actually really liked this show and thought it was a shame it was just one season. A real shame as you can see that it has such great potential. While it obviously is working on a limited budget, what they do with it is not bad and with a bit more refinement and investment, it could have been the next Smallville. Character are good and more or less not a bad adaptation of the comics, (even though it does take a few daring liberties.) Overall: I really hope that one day someone decides to try this again, reboot or continuation it doesn't matter. Perhaps the next time they should try marketing it better.… Expand
  3. Charlemagne
    Feb 6, 2017
    10
    I'm shocked how good this was... and how bad the current batch of soap-opera super-hero shows are that I stopped watching after a few episodes each. And of course this was canceled after 1 season... but the various trash shows go on indefinitely.
  4. Nighter
    Apr 10, 2015
    10
    Pretty good show with a lot of potential. WB didn't give it time to develop it & blocked writers. DC comics blocked too the use of characaters. The BOP orignal cast will be together once again at Hollywood Show April 25, 2015 at Westin LAX in LA, Dina Meyer, Ashley Scott, Rachel Skarsten.
  5. JessTurner
    Mar 8, 2018
    10
    Unexpectedly great. Well developed characters you get attached to. But alas, everything I like gets canceled after 1 season and mediocrity reins.

Awards & Rankings

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#18 Best TV Season of 2002
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#10 Most Discussed TV Season of 2002
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#5 Most Shared TV Season of 2002

Critic Reviews

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Metascore
58

Mixed or average reviews - based on 21 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9 out of 21
  2. Mixed: 7 out of 21
  3. Negative: 5 out of 21
  1. San Diego Union-Tribune
    Reviewed by: Robert P. Laurence
    May 16, 2015
    37
    Ominously dark, loaded with splashy visual special effects and soundtrack whooshes and vrooms, with costumes by the Frederick's of Hollywood Martial Arts Division, Birds of Prey bogs down early in lengthy and tedious exposition, the sort of back-story explanation that scriptwriters call "laying pipe." [8 Oct 2002, p.E-6]
  2. Seattle Post-Intelligencer
    Reviewed by: John Levesque
    May 16, 2015
    60
    Worth watching for anyone interested in comic-book fantasy with a solemn bent. [8 Oct 2002, p.E1]
  3. Variety
    Reviewed by: Laura Fries
    May 16, 2015
    60
    With Birds of Prey, Kalogridis has crafted a tidy concept, crossing an idol with a villain to make a new breed --- slightly naughty, definitely conflicted but with some serious kick-ass power.
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