Emily Owens, M.D.
The CW | CW | Release Date: October 16, 2012
CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
47
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 25 Critic Reviews
Positive:
9
Mixed:
10
Negative:
6
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
80
Zap2it (Inside the Box)Carina Adly MacKenzieOct 16, 2012
Season 1 Review: If you're hoping for a slow-building romance, a relatable lead character, and a sweet follow-up to lighthearted lead-in "Hart of Dixie," you're in the right place. Read full review
80
Miami HeraldGlenn GarvinOct 16, 2012
Season 1 Review: A show with the twin themes that life is high school and the past cannot be escaped sounds inordinately depressing, but the writing and performances on Emily rise far above the apparent limitations. Read full review
75
St. Louis Post-DispatchGail PenningtonOct 16, 2012
Season 1 Review: Thanks to the clever writing and a very appealing performance by Gummer, this is one of my favorites of the fall season. Read full review
70
Los Angeles TimesRobert LloydOct 16, 2012
Season 1 Review: It is smartly written and well played.... This series is also going to be very much a matter of taste. Read full review
67
Uncle BarkyEd BarkOct 15, 2012
Season 1 Review: Gummer's a gamer, investing her lead character with smarts, compassion and no small amount of discombobulation. She injects the ordinary with her own unique prescription brand pick-me-ups, making Emily Owens bearable when it's not fully embraceable. Read full review
67
NewsdayVerne GayOct 12, 2012
Season 1 Review: At least Emily proves she's got the chops to cast a shadow of her own. Read full review
63
New York PostLinda StasiOct 16, 2012
Season 1 Review: Gummer's a good actress in a mediocre sitcom; one that skirts the line between grown-up series and one that will appeal to The CW's young-girl demographic. Read full review
63
People WeeklyTom GliattoOct 12, 2012
Season 1 Review: It's like watching someone try to flirt while stuck in a revolving door. But Gummer has a whirring charm that never settles for mere adorkability. [22 Oct 2012m p.42]
63
Chicago Sun-TimesLori RacklSep 11, 2012
Season 1 Review: The show isn't revolutionary, but it is sweet and relatable. Read full review
50
Entertainment WeeklyKen TuckerOct 23, 2012
Season 1 Review: Gummer, so good as a clever lawyer on The Good Wife, deserves better than this role as a grown-up, moony teenage girl, even as she makes Emily far more interesting than her own insipid voice-over narration would suggest. Read full review
50
The New York TimesMike HaleOct 15, 2012
Season 1 Review: The problem is more likely to be the generic nature of Emily's misadventures, and the soap opera implausibility of the medical stories, which is extreme, even for the genre. Read full review
50
Boston HeraldMark A. PerigardOct 15, 2012
Season 1 Review: Finally you get the sense that Meryl Streep's daughter is coming into her own as an actress and even a lead. But Emily needs a script doc, stat. Read full review
50
Pittsburgh Post-GazetteRob OwenOct 15, 2012
Season 1 Review: If this all seems too precious, well, it is. But the show is saved by Ms. Gummer and a relentless pace. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleDavid WiegandOct 12, 2012
Season 1 Review: The rest of the cast is fine, but without Gummer, they couldn't begin to rescue the series from its enormous burden of predictability and cliche. Read full review
42
HitfixAlan SepinwallOct 15, 2012
Season 1 Review: Adult life may be like high school some of the time, but it isn't all of the time--and a show suggesting that it is becomes just as difficult to endure as some of the worse memories of high school itself. Read full review
40
New York Magazine (Vulture)Matt Zoller SeitzOct 16, 2012
Season 1 Review: The plot has a few moments designed to reassure us that Emily is a competent grown-up who's good at her job, but for the most part, she comes off as a bland, clueless, simpering person who doesn't realize how accomplished (and privileged) she is. Read full review
40
New York Daily NewsDavid HinckleyOct 15, 2012
Season 1 Review: Emily Owens M.D. begins with the mildly interesting if familiar premise that real life is just like high school. Unfortunately, that idea does not become a launching pad for an interesting story. Read full review
40
Denver PostJoanne OstrowOct 12, 2012
Season 1 Review: "Grey's" keeps the high-school analogy to itself. Emily Owens M.D. never stops making the too-obvious comparisons out loud. Read full review
40
VarietyBrian LowryOct 12, 2012
Season 1 Review: As is, there's nary a beat in Emily Owens' pitter-pattering heart we haven't seen elsewhere, as if the whole thing was stitched together from pieces of medical-and young-adult series past. Read full review
30
Wall Street JournalDorothy RabinowitzOct 26, 2012
Season 1 Review: The greatest problem for Ms. Gummer, and everyone else in the cast, has to do with the script, a terminal case of the well-known vacant mind disorder, to which large quarters of the TV writing world are, it would seem, particularly susceptible. Read full review
30
Philadelphia Daily NewsEllen GrayOct 16, 2012
Season 1 Review: Emily Owens had me cringing from its opening scene all the way through its second episode. Read full review
25
USA TodayRobert BiancoOct 15, 2012
Season 1 Review: ABC's upcoming Malibu Country is a more egregious waste of talent. But only Emily can provoke an almost irresistible urge to scream, "Shut up, shut up, shut up," at your TV screen. Read full review
25
Washington PostHank StueverSep 14, 2012
Season 1 Review: There's something demeaning about the whole set-up. Read full review
0
TV Guide MagazineMatt RoushOct 16, 2012
Season 1 Review: Think a less charming Ally McBeal in scrubs, acting out with all the maturity of the dancing baby, and that still can't approximate the annoying aftertaste of this cringe-inducing misfire. Read full review
0
The Hollywood ReporterTim GoodmanOct 12, 2012
Season 1 Review: There is not one smart or endurable moment in this series. Read full review
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