Feed the Beast (2016)
AMC | Release Date: June 5, 2016
CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
46
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 33 Critic Reviews
Positive:
5
Mixed:
19
Negative:
9
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30
The AtlanticSophie GilbertJun 6, 2016
Season 1 Review: Answers are sacrificed in Feed the Beast’s quest to be 18 different things at once: a Bourdain-esque tale of bad-boy chefs made good, a gritty crime drama, a superhero show, a touching tale of familial reception. Read full review
30
Los Angeles TimesMary McNamaraJun 6, 2016
Season 1 Review: [Feed the Beast] is such a mess that you have to wonder what on Earth is going on at AMC (besides the whole if-it’s-a-white-guy-who-bleeds-it-leads thing). Read full review
30
TimeDaniel D'AddarioJun 3, 2016
Season 1 Review: The series is elaborately plated, with elaborate backstory and perhaps one too many past traumas for its characters. But its main ingredient--the story of two men putting their passions for food and drink to use on a restaurant--is unsalvageably stale. Read full review
30
VarietyMaureen RyanJun 2, 2016
Season 1 Review: Its attempts to explore the motivations of a trouble-prone, hot-shot chef while mixing in observations about the persistence of organized crime in New York, and meditations on the grief process, all lack originality and bite. Read full review
30
RogerEbert.comBrian TallericoJun 2, 2016
Season 1 Review: Feed the Beast vacillates from being something we’ve seen often to something that’s just not believable, and the dialogue sounds produced by a computer designed to write melodrama. Schwimmer (and co-star Lorenza Izzo) sometimes pierce through the predictability, but everyone else gets lost in a messy show that just can’t compete in today’s TV market. Read full review
25
USA TodayRobert BiancoJun 3, 2016
Season 1 Review: It's a tossup as to what exactly about Beast you may find least bearable. For some, it will be the mix of crime-show melodrama, cheap cynicism and soap-opera theatrics. For others, it will be the sad fact that no one involved seems to have ever heard an actual human being speak. Read full review
25
San Francisco ChronicleDavid WiegandMay 31, 2016
Season 1 Review: It is a perfect example of why bad writing kills TV. Read full review
20
The Hollywood ReporterTim GoodmanJun 2, 2016
Season 1 Review: I was bored senseless within the aforementioned 15 minutes. I got through the first episode but could not tolerate the effort it was taking to slog through the second. Read full review
20
Yahoo TVKen TuckerJun 2, 2016
Season 1 Review: It turns out that having your teeth pulled is a better metaphor for what it’s like to watch Feed the Beast than anything to do with fine food. Read full review
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