FlashForward
ABC | Release Date: September 24, 2009
CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
71
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 26 Critic Reviews
Positive:
19
Mixed:
7
Negative:
0

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
60
Los Angeles TimesRobert Lloyd
Season 1 Review: It's a decent but not brilliant beginning. Read full review
60
PopMatters
Season 1 Review: If the procedural plotting in FlashForward was ordinary, all the conversations about destiny and free will--and what any of it means for the poor sap who didn’t see anything during the blackout--made the first episode feel vibrant, engaged with heady concepts and questions. Read full review
50
Newark Star-LedgerAlan Sepinwall
Season 1 Review: If Guggenheim can deepen the personalities and show how the flash forward really impacted them, then they might have a show here. Because right now, there's an interesting idea, some good production values and a cool cliffhanger, and not much else. Read full review
50
TimeJames Poniewozik
Season 1 Review: Like many of ABC's post-Lost attempts at serials, this one has a great premise with tremendous potential, but I wish more attention had been paid to fleshing out the characters and generally bringing a fresher voice to the dialogue. Read full review
40
Philadelphia Daily NewsEllen Gray
Season 1 Review: The pilot for FlashForward, by contrast [to "Lost"], feels more like deja vu, with characters who could've been rounded up from a disaster miniseries, tied to a mystery that's only compelling if we care what happens to these people. Read full review
40
Washington PostTom Shales
Season 1 Review: The new series seems to share a perhaps fatal flaw of that now-canceled show, which is that the premise becomes so byzantine and the complications so arcane that eventually people just give up on trying to make sense of the darn thing. Read full review
40
SlateTroy Patterson
Season 1 Review: Fantasy plots require fantastic details, but the show, rolling steadily downhill from a compelling premise, is utterly casual about the particulars of its speculative time-tripping and post-catastrophe atmospherics. Read full review
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