Emerald City
NBC | Release Date: January 6, 2017
CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
47
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 31 Critic Reviews
Positive:
7
Mixed:
14
Negative:
10
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
37
USA TodayRobert BiancoJan 5, 2017
Season 1 Review: It’s hard to keep the story straight, as new and old characters mingle and the mostly anemic performances weaken the show's hold on our attention. Read full review
33
TVLineDave NemetzJan 3, 2017
Season 1 Review: While it displays some dazzling visual flair and is plenty ambitious in its scope, like a certain famous Scarecrow, this ponderous revamp doesn’t seem to have much of a brain at all. Read full review
30
New York Magazine (Vulture)Matt Zoller SeitzJan 9, 2017
Season 1 Review: The entire thing feels too canny, too much the result of a marketplace gamble, and that’s especially dispiriting in light of the fact that all ten episodes are directed by Tarsem Singh, an extravagant visual stylist whose work tends to have a music-video-fashion-show-nightmare vividness even when the story makes no sense and isn’t trying to. Read full review
30
Pittsburgh Post-GazetteRob OwenJan 6, 2017
Season 1 Review: All the trappings of “The Wizard of Oz” without any of the charms. Read full review
30
Los Angeles TimesMeredith BlakeJan 5, 2017
Season 1 Review: Emerald City is a turgid attempt at fantasy burdened by the weight of its own pretensions. Read full review
30
RogerEbert.comBrian TallericoJan 4, 2017
Season 1 Review: The writing doesn’t work. And scenes within the title location are in even more need of a rewrite. Read full review
30
Boston GlobeMatthew GilbertJan 4, 2017
Season 1 Review: A labored, humorless attempt to turn “The Wizard of Oz” into a “Game of Thrones”-like epic. Read full review
25
St. Louis Post-DispatchGail PenningtonJan 6, 2017
Season 1 Review: The plotting is goofy, the tone is relentlessly dark and the pacing is excruciatingly slow. Worst, the characters are hard to care about. Read full review
25
Boston HeraldMark A. PerigardJan 6, 2017
Season 1 Review: I wanted to check out the moment Dorothy Gale was waterboarded. Read full review
20
Yahoo TVKen TuckerJan 6, 2017
Season 1 Review: We soon begin to see the method behind this show’s storytelling: If there’s a way to pump more pretentious gas into the story, Emerald City will find it. Read full review
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