Eleventh Hour
CBS | Release Date: October 9, 2008
CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
54
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 26 Critic Reviews
Positive:
12
Mixed:
9
Negative:
5
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80
New York Daily NewsDavid Hinckley
Season 1 Review: Sewell radiates the kind of fascination you can't buy off the rack at the TV drama store, and that alone gives Eleventh Hour a strong start. Read full review
70
TV Guide MagazineMatt Roush
Season 1 Review: A bit generic, despite the creepy particulars of this series’ science-based mysteries--think a more mainstream "Fringe." Read full review
70
Washington PostDebra Leithauser
Season 1 Review: Jerry Bruckheimer of "CSI" fame is behind this series, and it shows. The production is slick; the storylines are paced and told well; and the talent is top-notch. Read full review
70
Los Angeles TimesRobert Lloyd
Season 1 Review: While supercool science may be the hook, the real draw of Eleventh Hour is Sewell. Read full review
70
Kansas City StarAaron Barnhart
Season 1 Review: The show is entertaining enough, but the American Hood, played by Rufus Sewell, won't remind anyone of Patrick Stewart. Read full review
70
Philadelphia Daily NewsEllen Gray
Season 1 Review: The plot of tonight's pilot, which involves cloning, hews closely to the original's first, dark episode. A second, included for review, seems more like a CBS show, a murder mystery I'd like to think any of the network's three "CSIs" could've knocked off as easily. Read full review
70
Philadelphia InquirerJonathan Storm
Season 1 Review: Both ABC's "Life on Mars" and CBS's Eleventh Hour have the comfortable feel of many shows that have come before them and lasted a long, long time. Read full review
67
NewsdayVerne Gay
Season 1 Review: Tonight's premiere may seem like ridiculous twaddle, and it may feel like a major downer (and kinda sloooow), too, but maybe that's just Bruckheimer playing with our heads. In fact, Hour deserves a second look (next week is definitely better). Read full review
63
Chicago Sun-TimesMisha Davenport
Season 1 Review: Hood comes across as brilliant but aloof. Young, meanwhile, seems to be angry, but the source of her anger isn't really explored (we can only assume that babysitting a scientist, no matter how brilliant, is not the job people sign up for when they go to work for the FBI). Read full review
63
New York PostLinda Stasi
Season 1 Review: Taken from a British series (although there is enough cribbing off American shows to make it seem all too familiar), this less-than-compelling knock-off follows Hood, who like House makes house calls--or in this case, crime calls. Read full review
63
USA TodayRobert Bianco
Season 1 Review: As it is, Hour arrives as yet another import procedural on a schedule that is already awash in both. Read full review
63
Chicago TribuneMaureen Ryan
Season 1 Review: Eleventh Hour does what it sets out to do: It puts a talented actor (Rufus Sewell) through his crime-solving paces on rain-slicked streets, in dark warehouses and in spooky labs that look almost identical to the rain-slicked streets, dark warehouses and spooky labs on almost every other CBS drama. Read full review
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