Finding Sarah

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Season 1
  • Network: OWN
  • Series Premiere Date:
Metascore
60

Mixed or average reviews - based on 6 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 6
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 6
  3. Negative: 0 out of 6

Critic Reviews

  1. People Weekly
    Reviewed by: Tom Gliatto
    Jun 10, 2011
    88
    What's surprising and even touching is that Fergie may not be a hot mess, but she's an appealingly human one. [20 Jun 2011, p.47]
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  2. Philadelphia Inquirer
    Reviewed by: Jonathan Storm
    Jun 13, 2011
    70
    The helpers seem compassionate, and Ferguson's story is so fascinating that her "journey" makes for good reality television.
  3. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Alessandra Stanley
    Jun 10, 2011
    60
    Finding Sarah isn't really all that helpful as an inspirational story or even as a cautionary tale. [...] But the series provides an invaluable lesson in celebrity self-help.
  5. Variety
    Reviewed by: Brian Lowry
    Jun 10, 2011
    50
    It's the very epitome of Winfrey's pull-yourself-up-by-the-bootstraps," live your best life" motto. For all that, she's a poor object of sympathy--whining about having squandered a privileged and pampered existence few could imagine ever enjoying.
  6. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Linda Stasi
    Jun 10, 2011
    50
    On the triumphant side, Sarah strips her psyche raw and lets us inside the mind, the heart and the life of the broke and broken princess who must find herself or die, she says right off. [...] OK, Fergie has legitimate issues. And now, she's dead broke, as well. So, she brings in "the world's greatest experts" to save her. And who are these experts? Why, Oprah's all-stars, Dr. Phil and Suze Orman, of course! Let the failure portion of the show begin!
  7. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Mary McNamara
    Jun 10, 2011
    40
    The two things Finding Sarah has going for it--Ferguson's undeniable personal appeal and the value of watching a Very British Person attempt to do a Very American Thing--is buried under sanctimony and the absurd vocabulary of self-help.