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. Boston Herald
    Reviewed by: Mark A. Perigard
    Mar 4, 2015
    75
    Arquette is a cool presence onscreen and brings understated conviction to a character whose powers­ of observation border on superhuman.
  2. The Lincoln Journal Star
    Reviewed by: Jeff Korbelik
    Mar 2, 2015
    75
    Procedurals work well when viewers like the characters, e.g., Mark Harmon on “NCIS” or Mariska Hargitay on “Law & Order: SVU.” It’s hard not to like Arquette, Van Der Beek and the other cast members on Cyber.
  3. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Joe McGovern
    Feb 27, 2015
    67
    Watching CSI is like eating Gummi Bears. There's no nutritional value, but the franchise has created a yummy, empty-calorie world.... The eternally maternal Patricia Arquette, enhances her journeywoman bona fides on this TV junk food. [6 Mar 2015, p.75]
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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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