Chasing Life
ABC Family | Freeform | Release Date: June 10, 2014
CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
59
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 12 Critic Reviews
Positive:
4
Mixed:
7
Negative:
1
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
80
New York Daily NewsDavid HinckleyJun 9, 2014
Season 1 Review: Chasing Life walks a line itself, staying away from sad, but stopping short of sentimental. Ricci makes the balance work, reminding us that a story of a girl with cancer can also be the story of a girl. Read full review
75
NewsdayDiane WertsJun 9, 2014
Season 1 Review: As episodes unfold, the relationships resonate, and the characters run deeper. Read full review
70
VarietyBrian LowryJun 9, 2014
Season 1 Review: Through three episodes the series manages to mine the arbitrary nature of her predicament without being cloying--no small feat, given the venue and subject matter. Read full review
67
Entertainment WeeklyAmy WilkinsonJun 6, 2014
Season 1 Review: Life traffics in all the tropes you've come to expect from the network.... Which wouldn't necessarily be a bad thing if it didn't all overshadow the cancer. [13 Jun 2014, p.76]
60
Los Angeles TimesMary McNamaraJun 10, 2014
Season 1 Review: When it's not being completely ridiculous, Chasing Life is very good. Read full review
60
Boston GlobeMatthew GilbertJun 10, 2014
Season 1 Review: It would be great to see the network come up with something as honest as, say, “My So-Called Life,” or as original and amusingly metaphorical as “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” or as thought-provoking as a movie like “River’s Edge.” But in the meantime, a mostly happy dramedy like Chasing Life will do, marrying strong female roles with CW-style 20-something melodrama that’s as mindlessly angsty as the Bon Iver on the soundtrack. Read full review
60
Philadelphia Daily NewsEllen GrayJun 9, 2014
Season 1 Review: There are one or two (or five) plot points too many packed into each episode, potentially lessening the impact of any single one but also ensuring that Life won't be one long sobfest. Read full review
58
The A.V. ClubCarrie RaislerJun 10, 2014
Season 1 Review: Though still stumbling around in search of a center, Chasing Life has the potential to tell an interesting story about this one person’s particular journey through life after diagnosis--if it doesn’t get too caught up in the small details. Read full review
50
Boston HeraldMark A. PerigardJun 10, 2014
Season 1 Review: The series is an adaptation of popular Mexican tele­novela “Terminales” and doesn’t do enough to shake off its more sensational roots. A plot swerve at the end of the hour will set off more groans than gasps. Read full review
50
The New York TimesNeil GenzlingerJun 9, 2014
Season 1 Review: The show turns into a case study in how not to be subtle. It has a reasonable point to make--next to a cancer diagnosis, a lot of life seems trivial--but makes it over and over again. Read full review
40
Pittsburgh Post-GazetteRob OwenJun 9, 2014
Season 1 Review: If April’s work world is silly, her home life is uninvolving because it’s barely sketched out and seems like an afterthought. Read full review
37
St. Louis Post-DispatchGail PenningtonJun 10, 2014
Season 1 Review: What Chasing Life mainly raises, though, is eyebrows, for being so laughably bad. Read full review
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