Fashion Star

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Season 1
  • Network: NBC
  • Series Premiere Date: Mar 13, 2012
Season #: 2, 1
Metascore
54

Mixed or average reviews - based on 15 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 15
  2. Mixed: 9 out of 15
  3. Negative: 1 out of 15

Critic Reviews

  1. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Neil Genzlinger
    Mar 12, 2012
    80
    The real stars are the designers, and it's an eclectic bunch, some already working in the industry, others who dream to.
  2. Newsday
    Reviewed by: Anne Bratskeir
    Mar 12, 2012
    75
    If you can see the forest through the trees, it's good, wearable fashion that's the real "fashion star" on this show, and it gives viewers an unusual glimpse into the world of retail despite all the superfluous hoopla.
  3. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Linda Stasi
    Mar 12, 2012
    75
    Absent from this show are the ridiculous clothes that look like they belong on clowns and strippers. In their place are serious, wearable clothes that are, for the most part, so beautiful, so well-tailored and so, yes, sellable, that you'll want to buy them right up.
  5. Boston Globe
    Reviewed by: Christopher Muther
    Mar 12, 2012
    70
    It is a smartly conceived look at the populist side of fashion.
  6. Chicago Sun-Times
    Reviewed by: Lori Rackl
    Mar 13, 2012
    63
    It's a unique concept [public can purchase online that night or the next day], although that's where Fashion Star's originality ends.
  7. Variety
    Reviewed by: Geoff Berkshire
    Mar 12, 2012
    60
    The glossy you-won't-see-this-on-cable production values support a relatively straightforward competition structure, whittling down 14 contestants until a single winner emerges.
  8. Philadelphia Daily News
    Reviewed by: Ellen Gray
    Mar 13, 2012
    50
    There's a germ of a good idea in the massively overproduced Fashion Star.
  9. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Hank Stuever
    Mar 13, 2012
    50
    Fashion Star's debut lasts 90 minutes but feels as though it's about five hours.
  10. Boston Herald
    Reviewed by: Mark A. Perigard
    Mar 13, 2012
    50
    Fashion Star is a skimpy little show. You might buy something in the evening, but beware those morning-after regrets.
  11. Uncle Barky
    Reviewed by: Ed Bark
    Mar 12, 2012
    50
    This possibly could work, and isn't entirely unwatchable.
  12. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Nuzhat Naoreen
    Mar 12, 2012
    42
    Viewers barely get to understand the challenge before the designers' clothing is revealed in a gaudy runway show, featuring flashing neon lights and blaring music that are the opposite of stylish.
  13. The Hollywood Reporter
    Reviewed by: David Knowles
    Mar 15, 2012
    40
    [Fashion Star falls] in to the same X Factor trap by amping up a tried-and-true format at every conceivable turn until the final product has all the subtlety of a Victoria's Secret runway show.
  14. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
    Reviewed by: Rob Owen
    Mar 13, 2012
    40
    Fashion Star remains a cool idea. But its execution and formatting need work.
  15. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: David Hinckley
    Mar 13, 2012
    40
    In an attempt to distinguish itself from a dozen previous TV fashion competitions, which is not a bad goal, Fashion Star ends up feeling overly complicated and a little cluttered.
  16. People Weekly
    Reviewed by: Tom Gliatto
    Mar 12, 2012
    25
    The show moves along with the dull, humming smoothness of commerce. [19 Mar 2012, p.42]
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