Dallas (2012)
TNT | Release Date: June 13, 2012
CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
66
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 45 Critic Reviews
Positive:
30
Mixed:
12
Negative:
3
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
NewsdayVerne GayJan 25, 2013
Season 2 Review: Monday night's return of Dallas is a joy and everything fans could ask for--the past, present and future all skillfully bound up in a high-gloss melodrama full of deceit, greed, Velveeta and (surprisingly enough) even love. Read full review
91
Boston HeraldMark A. PerigardJan 28, 2013
Season 2 Review: If there's a nighttime soap any better, I haven't seen it. Read full review
91
Entertainment WeeklyHenry GoldblattJan 18, 2013
Season 2 Review: The plots are twistier than a fishtail braid and only lag when the conversation turns to energy. [25 Jan/1 Feb 2013, p.112]
88
People WeeklyTom GliattoJun 7, 2012
Season 1 Review: It's both old and new, a comfy piece of nostalgia that doubles as a fresh guilty pleasure. [18 Jun 2012, p.39]
83
Entertainment WeeklyHenry GoldblattFeb 21, 2014
Season 3 Review: The action picks up shortly after the season 2 finale.... Elsewhere, sex! [28 Feb 2014, p.65] Read full review
83
Boston HeraldMark A. PerigardJun 13, 2012
Season 1 Review: Cynthia Cidre's smart take on the prime-time soap (1978-1991) pays homage to the past while moving the battle to the next generation. Read full review
83
NewsdayVerne GayJun 12, 2012
Season 1 Review: More of a continuation than a "remake," this one looks to be a winner. Read full review
83
Uncle BarkyEd BarkJun 12, 2012
Season 1 Review: TNT's brighter, shinier Dallas makes an impressively staged re-entrance Wednesday night. Read full review
83
Entertainment WeeklyKen TuckerJun 8, 2012
Season 1 Review: Overall, Dallas is a solidly constructed soap opera with strong dialogue and oily plot twists. [15 Jun 2012, p.72]
80
VarietyBrian LowryJan 28, 2013
Season 2 Review: The program returns from its surprisingly tasty maiden run clicking on all cylinders, with plenty of bed-hopping, two-timing and Texas-sized dealmaking to go around. Read full review
80
VarietyBrian LowryJun 8, 2012
Season 1 Review: TNT's take on the classic primetime serial is exactly as it should be: Texas-sized, frothy and unwilling to settle for a double-cross when a triple can be executed. Read full review
80
Wall Street JournalDorothy RabinowitzJun 7, 2012
Season 1 Review: As the premiere episode nears its end, the plot begins thickening agreeably with so many secrets, dark revelations, shocks and betrayals it all begins to seem familiarly and comfortably absorbing. Read full review
75
Uncle BarkyEd BarkFeb 21, 2014
Season 3 Review: This old sidewinder still packs a kick. Read full review
75
RedEyeCurt WagnerJan 28, 2013
Season 2 Review: Dallas is just as superbly soapy as ever, but you have to wonder whether the show can survive without its legendary star. Read full review
75
People WeeklyTom GliattoJan 25, 2013
Season 2 Review: [Larry Hagman's last days on the show don't] keep Dallas from being robust fun. [4 Feb 2013, p.42]
75
Uncle BarkyEd BarkJan 25, 2013
Season 2 Review: The first season of TNT's Dallas reboot was far better than many had anticipated. These early stages of Season 2 likewise keep the faith. Read full review
75
San Francisco ChronicleDavid WiegandJan 22, 2013
Season 2 Review: The first two episodes of Dallas 2.0, the TNT reboot of the classic nighttime soap, have all the fixin's for a juicy second season. Read full review
75
New York PostLinda StasiJun 13, 2012
Season 1 Review: The new Dallas is more ridiculous, campier, more preposterous and so totally over the top that it's skirting insanity. And those are only a few of the reasons to love this show. Read full review
75
San Jose Mercury News/Contra Costa TimesChuck BarneyJun 5, 2012
Season 1 Review: Dallas is teeming with the soapy plots, delectable eye candy and bad blood we crave in our TV guilty pleasures. It also maintains the general tone of the original without devolving into camp. Read full review
70
TV Guide MagazineMatt RoushJan 28, 2013
Season 2 Review: Once again the veterans wipe the floor with the young whippersnappers. Read full review
70
Zap2it (Inside the Box)Rick PorterJun 15, 2012
Season 1 Review: The new Dallas isn't a game-changer, but it's a solidly built, easy-to-take soap that does right by its predecessor. Read full review
70
SlateTroy PattersonJun 13, 2012
Season 1 Review: Dallas may not always compel your attention, but it does a good job of telling you what you missed. Read full review
70
TimeJames PoniewozikJun 13, 2012
Season 1 Review: Despite some flat performances, the show does a better job than I might have expected bringing a 20th-century broadcast-TV icon down to 21st-century cable size. Read full review
70
TV Guide MagazineMatt RoushJun 13, 2012
Season 1 Review: The show's predictably melodramatic rhythms and telegraphed twists will be like nectar to those still pining for this old-school style of skullduggery. Read full review
70
Los Angeles TimesRobert LloydJun 13, 2012
Season 1 Review: As redeveloped by Cynthia Cidre (the 2007 CBS prime-time soap "Cane"), it is very much its [the original "Dallas"] heir, in spirit and execution. Read full review
70
The Huffington PostMaureen RyanJun 12, 2012
Season 1 Review: All things considered, though, this is a show that is pretty firmly fixed on what it does best--serving up soapy, Texas-sized shenanigans and trying to mix in a little seasoning of real emotion along the way. Read full review
70
Washington PostHank StueverJun 7, 2012
Season 1 Review: Henderson gives a lunky, forgettable performance, coming nowhere near anyone's idea of a stronger, meaner version of J.R. Thanks to the rest of its ensemble, however, the new Dallas gains some traction and kicks up a little dust. Read full review
63
Slant MagazineDaniel GoldbergJun 18, 2012
Season 1 Review: The newer additions to the cast don't have much of a presence beyond their plot roles, yet somehow manage to occupy a majority of the screen time. As a result, the new Dallas acquires the brashness of an impostor laying claim to a vast family fortune. Read full review
63
RedEyeCurt WagnerJun 13, 2012
Season 1 Review: Some of the dialogue is groan-worthy, some plot turns totally predictable and some of the soapy silliness is just, well, silly. But J.R.'s Dallas is still a hoot. Read full review
63
Chicago Sun-TimesLori RacklJun 13, 2012
Season 1 Review: Dallas is full of implausibilities. So are a lot of soaps. But this one offers something the others don't: a nostalgic romp in a dysfunctional ranch that was a Friday night fixture on many a TV set. Read full review
60
New York Daily NewsDavid HinckleyFeb 24, 2014
Season 3 Review: It’s getting there. If things feel a little contrived, or a lot contrived, that’s hardly a first for the show. They’re also tangled and messy and dastardly with a real shot at becoming sordid. That’s a good start. Read full review
60
New York Daily NewsDavid HinckleyJun 13, 2012
Season 1 Review: Between old fans who will enjoy a revisit and young folks who never even heard of Miss Ellie, TNT is placing a sound bet. Read full review
60
Boston GlobeSarah RodmanJun 12, 2012
Season 1 Review: The J.R. one-liners tend to satisfy, but everything else is boilerplate, which hampers the younger cast. Read full review
58
HitfixAlan SepinwallJun 12, 2012
Season 1 Review: Hagman--and to a lesser extent fellow returning stars Patrick Duffy and Linda Gray--are so much more fun to watch than their four new, young co-stars that the new Dallas plays less like a passing of the torch than a suggestion that torches were better back in the '80s. Read full review
50
Philadelphia Daily NewsEllen GrayJun 14, 2012
Season 1 Review: [Larry Hagman's eyebrows] are the most contemporary thing about the "new" Dallas, which otherwise looks and feels like a chunk of the '80s trapped in amber. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleDavid WiegandJun 12, 2012
Season 1 Review: Except for Hagman, the performances are adequate without ever standing out, which may be one of the reasons it does take so long to care much about the younger Ewings. Read full review
40
TV Guide MagazineMatt RoushFeb 24, 2014
Season 3 Review: This Dallas isn't half as good as the landmark soap whose legacy is tarnished by the cardboard pawns of the next generation, carrying out their sexual mergers and secret agendas with a uniform lack of conviction or dynamism. Read full review
40
Pittsburgh Post-GazetteRob OwenFeb 20, 2014
Season 3 Review: She's not a Ewing, but grandma Ryland (Judith Light) is far more entertaining than any of the young hunks fighting around the pool at Southfork. Read full review
40
VarietyBrian LowryFeb 20, 2014
Season 3 Review: The show just appears to be recycling earlier beats, resulting in flourishes that feel more suited to daytime soaps than primetime serials. Read full review
40
New York Magazine (Vulture)Matt Zoller SeitzJun 14, 2012
Season 1 Review: Thankfully, both Hagman and Duffy are still around and alert, and their presence holds this new, mostly disappointing Dallas together. Read full review
40
Miami HeraldGlenn GarvinJun 12, 2012
Season 1 Review: Like its ancestor, the new Dallas is self-consciously a trashfest, an endless cycle of betrayals, confrontations, reconciliations and re-betrayals. Read full review
40
The New York TimesAlessandra StanleyJun 12, 2012
Season 1 Review: This version is palely faithful to the original without any of its seditious zest. Read full review
37
USA TodayRobert BiancoJun 12, 2012
Season 1 Review: You can find mummies who look fresher than this mold-encrusted relic, and who have newer ideas in their empty, embalmed heads. Read full review
30
SalonWilla PaskinJun 13, 2012
Season 1 Review: It's a straight down the line uninspired, dull, humorless soap opera that mimics the original without taking any of the interesting things from it. Read full review
10
The Hollywood ReporterTim GoodmanJun 12, 2012
Season 1 Review: Dallas is terrible....The writing is brutal and obvious, the acting is comical, and none of it is bettered by the directing. Read full review
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