CSI: Cyber

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Season 1
  • Network: CBS
  • Series Premiere Date: Oct 9, 2013
Season #: 2, 1
Metascore
45

Mixed or average reviews - based on 23 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 23
  2. Mixed: 14 out of 23
  3. Negative: 6 out of 23
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Critic Reviews

  1. St. Louis Post-Dispatch
    Reviewed by: Gail Pennington
    Mar 4, 2015
    37
    The dialogue Arquette is forced to deliver is the worst thing.
  2. Yahoo TV
    Reviewed by: Ken Tucker
    Mar 4, 2015
    30
    I hope [Arquette’s] getting paid a heckuva lot for striding through this new hour of televisual malware.
  3. Variety
    Reviewed by: Brian Lowry
    Mar 3, 2015
    30
    While the threats might involve the high-tech world of hacking, CSI: Cyber is just plain hackneyed.
  5. Philadelphia Inquirer
    Reviewed by: Tirdad Derakhshani
    Mar 2, 2015
    30
    CSI: Cyber is as dull, repetitive, and unimaginative as its sister shows and as facile when it comes to its definition of the nature of criminality.
  6. New York Magazine (Vulture)
    Reviewed by: Margaret Lyons
    Mar 4, 2015
    20
    While CSI: Cyber is functional, it's also a useless chore. I have no idea what you could get out of CSI: Cyber that you couldn't get out of Scorpion.
  7. RogerEbert.com
    Reviewed by: Brian Tallerico
    Mar 2, 2015
    10
    This train wreck of a show often plays like a parody of bad crime drama that one would see within a Seth Rogen comedy, for example.

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User Score
3.5

Generally unfavorable reviews- based on 111 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 28 out of 111
  2. Mixed: 18 out of 111
  3. Negative: 65 out of 111
  1. ThinBlueLine
    Mar 5, 2015
    1
    This is somehow the most unrealistic and preposterous of the CSI shows, which had already held that title compared to the rest of TV. It isThis is somehow the most unrealistic and preposterous of the CSI shows, which had already held that title compared to the rest of TV. It is not at all what the cyber crime division of the FBI does or how they do it. By that I mean it's even more unrealistic than the idiotic other CSI shows where the lab techs carry guns guns and interview and arrest people. It is some of the worst acting I've seen in a major TV show, and the cinematography is unbelievably stupid. It's like a kindergartener who just figured out how to use slow motion made this show, as that's how half of it is filmed. The special effects are straight up stupid, like the visualizations of computer code. The characters of course have lines so cheesy that if the previous stuff didn't already make it unwatchable the dialogue would, and they have to talk out loud through ever step of their thinking so the lowest common denominator of the world's population that watches this show can understand. The only way I could sit through the whole first episode was to think of it as a parody, and I still want to sue the producers for my 45 minutes back. How anyone could ever watch this show is beyond me. It should be cancelled not to mention prime time on a huge network.… Full Review »
  2. Apeks3
    Mar 13, 2015
    1
    Wow, where do you start on how really poor this program is? From the stilted dialogue to the wooden acting; from the predictable storyline toWow, where do you start on how really poor this program is? From the stilted dialogue to the wooden acting; from the predictable storyline to the plot that has holes you can drive a bus through. There is not a single believable character but loads of stereotypes thrown into a melting pot that doesn't melt! You have your over-compensating female boss, your overweight but brilliant hacker, your proby hacker from the hood on probation (literally), your action man with a gun and your enigmatic oriental female. This program suffers from cliché overload and can't even be bothered to hide the plastic doll stand-ins! I for one won't be wasting my time watching episode 2.… Full Review »
  3. Bgrod
    Mar 4, 2015
    0
    Cheesy and silly tripe that probably seem like cutting edge technology to CBS' core audience which I imagine is still using both Windows 95Cheesy and silly tripe that probably seem like cutting edge technology to CBS' core audience which I imagine is still using both Windows 95 and AOL. I keep waiting for CSI:Swansong but no such luck. We will probably be seeing CSI:Cyborg in the distant future. What was Patricia Arquette thinking other than paycheck when she signed on to this turkey. Wretchedly bad but good hate watching comedic potential in between playing games of Pong and Ms Pac-man on the Atari. I never thought I would be saying this but CSI:Cyber makes Scorpion look like Shakespeare.… Full Review »
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