- Network: ABC
- Series Premiere Date: Nov 15, 2006
Critic Reviews
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It may not be blessed with the most felicitous dialogue of all time, but “Day Break” is a solidly constructed and fast-paced drama.
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"Day Break" is an intricate, imaginative series designed to make you ask questions at every turn, but the killer will be, "What else is on?"
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As much fun as it might be for some of us to start our Wednesday nights watching a shirtless Taye Diggs get out of bed - just as it was once fun to watch Agents Mulder and Scully chase goblins and ghosties and things that go bump in the night - these TV conspiracies have a way of ending badly.
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There's a fine line between mysterious and just plain mystifying, and "Day Break" lurches over it.
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Slick, predictably convoluted and pumped up on conspiratorial dread, "Day Break" may be a trifle late to the serial thriller party.
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You begin to feel strung along on an errand whose complexities can't mask the fact that the main character isn't great company.
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At some point, your head will explode.
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Spend two hours tonight with this murky, muddled serial, and you may already feel as if you've been trapped in this day for an eternity.
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Intriguing and confounding though it is, this is anything but easy, funsy television. In fact, there are times when a viewer may feel he's being punished almost to the same degree as Detective Hopper.
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Diggs has considerable magnetism, but it would take the charisma of a cult leader to disguise the fact that this show sometimes reads like a '70s conspiracy thriller as interpreted by the makers of Bad Boys II.
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"Day Break" is both dark and frustrating.
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The upside to the series is that Diggs is good enough and the production slick enough that, for a while, you might be willing to play along the don't-think-too-hard-about-it premise.... [But] Hopper's day becomes pretty boring after a while.
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"Day Break" doesn't quite work, not only because of its redundancies but because its story line becomes simultaneously convoluted and pointless.
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And you thought Lost could be confusing. At least it doesn't give you a headache just thinking about it.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 137 out of 185
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Mixed: 1 out of 185
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Negative: 47 out of 185
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PrincessH.May 12, 2008
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DayBrokenApr 17, 2008Fantastic show... why'd it go?
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MarciaB.Mar 28, 2008