Blade
Spike TV | SPIKE | Release Date: June 28, 2006
CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
49
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 15 Critic Reviews
Positive:
6
Mixed:
4
Negative:
5

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
75
New York Daily NewsDavid Hinckley
Season 1 Review: The more it progresses, the more surprises it unwraps, and the more promise it presents. Read full review
75
New York PostLinda Stasi
Season 1 Review: To love the series, it helps to be exactly Spike TV's target market - a young guy who, when he can't be out drinking beer and throwing up with his friends, loves nothing more than to sit in front of a giant-screen TV doing all of the above. Read full review
75
Entertainment WeeklyGillian Flynn
Season 1 Review: When gunplay, kickboxing, and throat slitting actually feel like breaks in the action, you've got a series with brains as well as teeth. [28 Jul 2006, p.55]
70
Los Angeles TimesRobert Lloyd
Season 1 Review: "Blade: The Series" is pretty good, really, as these things go. Read full review
70
Miami HeraldGlenn Garvin
Season 1 Review: With a gorgeous cast (even -- especially? -- the dead ones), plenty of cool slow-mo martial arts action, a glorious collection of lethal hardware and an intriguing plot, Blade's got something for the whole family, provided they rank somewhere between the Munsters and the Mansons in sensibility. Read full review
70
Pittsburgh Post-GazettePhilip A. Stephenson
Season 1 Review: Although most viewers will notice a scale-down in the scope of effects and stunts, the style, the look and the impact are much the same as in the films. Read full review
60
Philadelphia InquirerJonathan Storm
Season 1 Review: Despite the loud music and all the supposedly ominous foolishness, blood that even spatters the camera lenses, and a sexy proto-vamp who often manages to wear almost no clothes (OK, maybe not despite her), I kind of liked the stupid thing. Read full review
50
Chicago Sun-TimesDoug Elfman
Season 1 Review: "Blade" could work as an earnest fantasy. It just doesn't, yet. Read full review
50
The New York TimesAnita Gates
Season 1 Review: Surprisingly inoffensive. Read full review
40
The Hollywood ReporterRay Richmond
Season 1 Review: Quite the bloodletting experience, even gratuitously so. Read full review
30
Boston GlobeMatthew Gilbert
Season 1 Review: Certainly a superhero needs to have gravitas, but Jones takes it too far -- further than Wesley Snipes in the "Blade" movies. Read full review
25
Detroit Free PressMike Duffy
Season 1 Review: A tediously bloody bore. Read full review
20
San Jose Mercury News/Contra Costa TimesCharlie McCollum
Season 1 Review: [It] comes up more than a bit short. Read full review
20
VarietyBrian Lowry
Season 1 Review: Feels more like a bland swig of plasma than the bloody romp that it ought to be. Read full review
10
TV Guide MagazineMatt Roush
Season 1 Review: It's just more of the same martial artlessness. I kept expecting to see Batman-style OOF! BAM! graphics on screen. Read full review
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