Breakthrough with Tony Robbins
NBC | Release Date: July 27, 2010
CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
43
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 10 Critic Reviews
Positive:
3
Mixed:
3
Negative:
4

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
75
NewsdayVerne Gay
Season 1 Review: It's an upbeat, glass-half-full hour with some tough love from Tony, who also dispenses sound couples therapy advice. But the hour also feels facile, and rushed. Read full review
70
The New York TimesAlessandra Stanley
Season 1 Review: Breakthrough fulfills the fantasy that a team of miracle workers--with limitless budgets and resources--can come through for a stranger with a dramatic rescue package. Read full review
63
People WeeklyTom Gliatto
Season 1 Review: The inspiration can be heavy-handed, but how can you not feel for the couple?
50
Los Angeles TimesRobert Lloyd
Season 1 Review: Though my tolerance for tear jerking in-your-face, feel-good makeover shows is comparatively limited, I don't want to come down too hard on Breakthrough, however much it commodifies misfortune or stage-manages reality. Read full review
40
Philadelphia Daily NewsEllen Gray
Season 1 Review: I'm probably not the best judge of NBC's Breakthrough with Tony Robbins, which struck me as way more Tony Robbins than breakthrough. Read full review
40
The Hollywood ReporterBarry Garron
Season 1 Review: Although Robbins delivers on his promise in one feel-good scene after another, there's little here to indicate that the joy and freedom will remain after the production crew packs up. Read full review
30
VarietyBrian Lowry
Season 1 Review: These situations are undeniably emotional, and the Stegners' situation is certainly relatable. Yet that very authenticity is what makes Breakthrough aggravating--presenting, as it does, serious hardships before addressing them with the depth of a Hallmark card. Read full review
20
New York Daily NewsDavid Hinckley
Season 1 Review: At first these actions, which feel extreme, seem to have little relation to the problems at hand. It soon becomes clear, however, that they do. As he promises, Robbins is attacking deeper problems, not symptoms, and as with any good infomercial, the results look compelling on the screen. Read full review
20
Washington PostTom Shales
Season 1 Review: Among the many irritating things about today's Exhibit A--Breakthrough With Tony Robbins, yet more trash television from NBC--is that it's another daytime-caliber show that somehow crashed the prime-time schedule. Read full review
10
Miami Herald
Season 1 Review: Easily the worst of the bunch--in fact, there's a good argument to be made that it's one of the most atrocious TV shows of all time--is NBC's Breakthrough with Tony Robbins. Read full review
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