Damages
FX | The 101 | DirecTV | Release Date: July 24, 2007
CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
78
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 81 Critic Reviews
Positive:
73
Mixed:
7
Negative:
1
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60
New York Daily NewsDavid HinckleyJul 11, 2012
Season 5 Review: It still drives you crazy with flashbacks, flash-forwards, fantasies and all manner of other tricks that do help define the show's ambience, but which often interrupt the story as much as they enhance it. Read full review
60
Newark Star-LedgerAlan Sepinwall
Season 1 Review: Damages offers two superb performances by old pros Glenn Close and Ted Danson.... One thing it doesn't have: a compelling main character. It's a doughnut show: lots of sweet, satisfying goodness around the edges, nothing in the middle. Read full review
60
Newark Star-LedgerAlan Sepinwall
Season 2 Review: Toward the end of the second episode, two characters who have no business acting chummy with each other get in the back of a car together and do exactly that. And rather than make me eager to pop in my screener of the third episode (which I did, eventually), it just killed all the buzz I had built up to that point. Read full review
60
The New York TimesAlessandra Stanley
Season 2 Review: The second season has style and suspense, but it’s harder to keep viewers guessing when the characters are so familiar, and the time-scrambling format is no longer as novel. Read full review
50
Chicago Sun-TimesDoug Elfman
Season 1 Review: The direction is capable. And there are moments of shining in the script, though there aren't yet enough fine scenes. Read full review
42
Entertainment WeeklyGillian Flynn
Season 1 Review: Patty's suppose to be a manipulative liar, but that's too much to believe. Like pretty much everything about this show. [03 Aug 2007, p.61]
40
SalonHeather Havrilesky
Season 1 Review: Even as we're prompted to be horrified by Hewes, her unrepentant nastiness, when paired with her immense power, leaves us very little to hope for here. Read full review
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