Black Box
ABC | Release Date: April 24, 2014
CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
44
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 27 Critic Reviews
Positive:
8
Mixed:
6
Negative:
13

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
58
Entertainment WeeklyClark CollisApr 15, 2014
Season 1 Review: The exposition-packed pilot at times resembles Rob Corddry's medical spoof Childrens Hospital. [18/25 Apr 2014, p.102]
50
Boston GlobeMatthew GilbertApr 24, 2014
Season 1 Review: Reilly, who is British but who has a convincing American accent, is a sturdy lead. She nicely holds her own in her confrontational scenes with Redgrave. She projects an intelligence that is essential to her role, and in her manic scenes--dancing alone on a balcony ledge or becoming hypersexual--she manages to keep from sliding into full-on caricature. But the writing is too often lazy. Read full review
50
Uncle BarkyEd BarkApr 23, 2014
Season 1 Review: Black Box at least has moments of unintentional high comedy in Catherine Black’s loopy magic carpet rides. But the series nonetheless takes itself way too seriously to be taken seriously. Read full review
42
Boston HeraldMark A. PerigardApr 24, 2014
Season 1 Review: There’s no way to self-medicate against the relentless drear of this new medical drama. Read full review
40
The OregonianKristi TurnquistJun 24, 2014
Season 1 Review: Reilly is intense and watchable.... But other elements of Black Box feel unconvincing, and overfamiliar, which is disappointing, considering the potential. Read full review
40
New York Daily NewsDavid HinckleyApr 24, 2014
Season 1 Review: First, Catherine at times feels stylized, like a character from a ’30s movie. It’s alluring and distracting. Second, none of the other characters pops out enough so we’re immediately eager to find out what will happen next. Read full review
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