Chicago Fire
NBC | Release Date: October 10, 2012
CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
49
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 23 Critic Reviews
Positive:
5
Mixed:
13
Negative:
5

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
60
SalonWilla PaskinOct 10, 2012
Season 1 Review: Chicago Fire a predictable but pleasantly familiar throwback that could have been on TV a decade and a half ago. Read full review
60
New York Magazine (Vulture)Matt Zoller SeitzOct 10, 2012
Season 1 Review: Chicago Fire gets better week-to-week, finding its own vibe, one that mixes TV-14 gore, soap opera entanglements, and working-class-hero earnestness. Sincerity puts the whole thing over. Read full review
58
Washington PostHank StueverSep 18, 2012
Season 1 Review: Everyone here, including "Oz's" Eamonn Walker as the battalion chief, is working from the same medium-grim setting, with medium-grim dialogue, which quickly drags the story and action into the still-smoldering ruins of other fire-and-rescue dramas. Read full review
50
People WeeklyTom GliattoOct 22, 2012
Season 1 Review: There are rivalries and feuds and dangerous situations, as well as a complete lack of personality. [29 Oct 2012, p.38]
50
HitfixAlan SepinwallOct 10, 2012
Season 1 Review: There's no character you haven't seen before. More importantly, there's no character that hasn't been done much, much better elsewhere. Read full review
50
Boston HeraldMark A. PerigardOct 10, 2012
Season 1 Review: It's a bad omen when the show repeats one of its catastrophes next week, just amped to a grislier level. I was bored. Read full review
50
RedEyeOct 10, 2012
Season 1 Review: "Law & Order" mastermind Dick Wolf doesn't blaze any new trails with his latest effort, but at least he's getting out of the courtroom and precinct house. Read full review
50
Boston GlobeMatthew GilbertOct 9, 2012
Season 1 Review: There is nothing exceptional or original about the show. Read full review
42
Entertainment WeeklyKen TuckerOct 5, 2012
Season 1 Review: One of the new season's dullest shows. [12/19 Oct 2012, p.98]
40
Wall Street JournalDorothy RabinowitzOct 12, 2012
Season 1 Review: There didn't seem to be anything like [a plot] for the first two episodes, though there has been no lack of good looks, with Taylor Kinney and Jesse Spencer around and filling out their firemen togs nicely. Still there's hope. In episode three, to be exact, where we find a hint that the writers have caught on to the uses of a story line, this about a corrupt police detective. Read full review
40
Pittsburgh Post-GazetteRob OwenOct 10, 2012
Season 1 Review: It's not that the show is terrible--it's not--but it brings nothing new to the firefighter drama format. Read full review
40
New York Daily NewsDavid HinckleyOct 10, 2012
Season 1 Review: It has complex and possibly interesting ideas and subplots. By the time most viewers finish, though, their flame of interest may be flickering. Read full review
40
VarietyBrian LowryOct 8, 2012
Season 1 Review: Despite featuring slickly executed action sequences (though nothing viewers couldn't see on Universal's "Backdraft" ride), Fire is almost as drab as a pile of ash. Read full review
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