Chicago P.D.
NBC | Release Date: January 8, 2014
CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
50
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 22 Critic Reviews
Positive:
6
Mixed:
10
Negative:
6

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
75
Chicago Sun-TimesLori RacklJan 7, 2014
Season 1 Review: The Dick Wolf-produced drama is darker than its sister show, but it packs potential for fun with the city’s cops and firefighters crossing paths both on and off the job. Read full review
75
San Francisco ChronicleDavid WiegandJan 6, 2014
Season 1 Review: It's about characters, and both "Chicago Fire" and Chicago PD are filled with them. Read full review
75
Entertainment WeeklyRay RahmanJan 2, 2014
Season 1 Review: P.D. is as straightforward and meat-and-potatoes as police dramas get--Dick Wolf comfort food. Read full review
70
Philadelphia Daily NewsEllen GrayJan 8, 2014
Season 1 Review: This one has some great characters and some heart-tugging stories. It also has a real sense of place, though I'm not sure how willing Chicagoans are going to be to claim all of it as their own. Read full review
70
The New York TimesAlessandra StanleyJan 6, 2014
Season 1 Review: Chicago P.D. is, in many ways, a throwback to an earlier, male-dominated era of crime shows, yet it carves out room for strong female characters who are good at their jobs and taken seriously by their colleagues--and the writers. Read full review
67
Uncle BarkyEd BarkJan 8, 2014
Season 1 Review: Chicago P.D. looks as though it’s going to walk its beat for a while. Read full review
60
The Hollywood ReporterTim GoodmanJan 8, 2014
Season 1 Review: There’s enough hardened acting chops to make Chicago PD a watchable distraction in the Dick Wolf mode. Will it end up being something consistently good? It probably depends on your definition of good. Read full review
60
New York Daily NewsDavid HinckleyJan 8, 2014
Season 1 Review: Chicago Fire is positioned to succeed. Assuming it uses Hank to wrestle with deeper issues and not just explore all the ways his team can get dirtbags to spill, it’s got a great chance. Read full review
60
VarietyBrian LowryJan 7, 2014
Season 1 Review: The well-traveled Beghe nevertheless convincingly sells the gravelly voiced tough-guy routine, and Chicago PD plays to the cathartic aspects of crime-fighting, provided one tries not to think too much about terms like “enhanced interrogation techniques.” And the show is aided by having the likes of Jon Seda, Elias Koteas and Sophia Bush on the case, even if most of the plotting has a musty and manipulative aroma. Read full review
60
Pittsburgh Post-GazetteRob OwenJan 3, 2014
Season 1 Review: It's not cutting-edge storytelling, but there are some decent plot threads as the show introduces its characters, including a brash desk sergeant who is either testing a rookie or simply ordering her to do her dirty work. Read full review
50
The Lincoln Journal StarJeff KorbelikMar 27, 2014
Season 1 Review: P.D.'s also loud--the percussive soundtrack is headache-inducing--formulaic and predictable, not at all like "The Shield." Read full review
50
St. Louis Post-DispatchGail PenningtonJan 8, 2014
Season 1 Review: As executed, it almost seems like a parody of the genre.... Beghe's growly, macho performance is hard to stomach, getting in the way of even noticing the attractive supporting cast. Read full review
42
Boston HeraldMark A. PerigardJan 8, 2014
Season 1 Review: The show is at least meta enough to have the department commander call out the sheer outrageousness of the appointment, but that doesn’t make it any more plausible. Read full review
42
The A.V. ClubCarrie RaislerJan 8, 2014
Season 1 Review: Spinning off an established show in order to up the chances of that happening is a fine impulse, but this Chicago Fire offshoot is not quite up to the task of creating something indelible just yet. Read full review
40
HollywoodChicago.comBrian TallericoJan 8, 2014
Season 1 Review: It’s a show that’s safe, easy to digest, and predictable, which, sadly, is what audiences are coming to expect from network dramatic programming. Read full review
40
Los Angeles TimesMary McNamaraJan 8, 2014
Season 1 Review: Unfortunately, Chicago P.D. is just that--a reminder, a breathy echo of other, much better shows. Many of which are available in affordable DVD packages and on various streaming services. Read full review
38
Slant MagazineChris CabinJan 2, 2014
Season 1 Review: Unlike Law & Order, Chicago P.D. doesn't possess a crucial shagginess, a sense of experience and knowledge in these supposedly weary and seasoned characters that cuts through the hardened cynicism of the show's atmosphere. Read full review
33
NewsdayVerne GayJan 7, 2014
Season 1 Review: The oldest trope in the TV kingdom dies hard, and in fact dies not at all on Chicago PD, the latest from "Law & Order" creator Dick Wolf, who sleepwalks through this show, or at least doesn't bother to wake up long enough to rewrite any of the rules he's established over the past 30 years. Read full review
30
Philadelphia InquirerTirdad DerakhshaniJan 2, 2014
Season 1 Review: It tries too hard to get down and dirty in the messy mire where crime happens. It just ends up messy, but without any real grit. Read full review
25
USA TodayRobert BiancoJan 8, 2014
Season 1 Review: Designed for people who want the legal clock turned back, not just to before the Constitution, but before the Magna Carta, Chicago P.D. is an insult to Chicago, police departments and viewers alike. Read full review
20
New York Magazine (Vulture)Margaret LyonsJan 8, 2014
Season 1 Review: Chicago PD is a bad show. The dialogue is predictable, the acting is marginal, and the plots are the swept-up leftovers from the Dick Wolf Idea Factory. Read full review
20
TV Guide MagazineMatt RoushJan 8, 2014
Season 1 Review: Chicago PD, is the most arrogantly conceived display of bare-knuckled hooey since the mercifully short-lived Ironside reboot, which polluted the same Wednesday 10/9c time period last fall. Read full review
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