FlashForward

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Season 1
  • Network: ABC
  • Series Premiere Date: Sep 24, 2009
Season #: 2, 1
User Score
7.4

Generally favorable reviews- based on 135 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 99 out of 135
  2. Mixed: 21 out of 135
  3. Negative: 15 out of 135
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  1. Nicole
    Nov 12, 2009
    3
    Started out good during the pilot. Every episode since then has just gotten more unrealistic and overdone. The acting is bad, the relationships show no emotion or chemistry, and the plot-lines have gotten thin. The beginning of every episode leads me to think that I have missed something. Huge gaps in plot occur without any explanation. This show leaves much to be desired. Could have been Started out good during the pilot. Every episode since then has just gotten more unrealistic and overdone. The acting is bad, the relationships show no emotion or chemistry, and the plot-lines have gotten thin. The beginning of every episode leads me to think that I have missed something. Huge gaps in plot occur without any explanation. This show leaves much to be desired. Could have been a great show with a fresh idea, yet the poor writing and B-list actors have ruined it.… Expand
  2. barryq.
    Oct 1, 2009
    3
    The show has a great premise but appears to have been directed by someone who worked on 'Murder She Wrote'. Everything is so over lit and fake. Should have been more realistic. Should have had some grit. Should have felt like it was really happening. Fail.
  3. Tiff
    Oct 8, 2009
    3
    Started out exciting and left me fast forwarding threw it on my DVR, I think it is a little boring...not the best plot.
  4. Jay
    Jan 11, 2010
    0
    Poorly written, poorly acted, poorly thought out. The premise was an interesting one, however the show is destroyed by the writers' inability to do anything interesting with it, or to avoid awful cliche ridden dialogue. Truly without any merit at all, avoid it like the plague.
  5. JM
    Oct 10, 2009
    3
    Pilot was not bad but the next two episodes are terrible. Even Michael Rymer, one of the best directors from Battlestar Galactica cannot save this dog. The plotting sucks, the dialog sucks, and the acting...well, sucks. The show is also sloppy. In the last episode, a graph based on an internet search is supposed to show a drop off in the crow population at the time of the flash forward Pilot was not bad but the next two episodes are terrible. Even Michael Rymer, one of the best directors from Battlestar Galactica cannot save this dog. The plotting sucks, the dialog sucks, and the acting...well, sucks. The show is also sloppy. In the last episode, a graph based on an internet search is supposed to show a drop off in the crow population at the time of the flash forward (just a few days earlier). The graph shows two MONTHS after flash forward. Were we not supposed to notice? And why the hell did they need a convicted Nazi criminal to tell them that a bunch of crows died? Was he the only one who noticed? There would have been widespread reports of crows dying. This show is another turd from the colon of Brandon Braga.… Expand
  6. JeffO.
    Sep 24, 2009
    2
    The idea sounded promising but began to fizzle out at the halfway point, maybe because of the cast of failed actors. Since I didn't care about any of the characters, I wasn't concerned about what was going to happen to them in the future. A real disappointment. Will probably not last more than a couple of months.
  7. dibopitt
    May 15, 2016
    0
    What a bunch of garbage. Only kids and nerds like this show, They try too hard to have a story line but it is a bunch of bull**** if you ask me. How it got a 7.4 out of 10 puzzles me.

Awards & Rankings

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#36 Best TV Season of 2009
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#22 Most Discussed TV Season of 2009
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#52 Most Shared TV Season of 2009

Critic Reviews

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Metascore
71

Generally favorable reviews - based on 26 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 19 out of 26
  2. Mixed: 7 out of 26
  3. Negative: 0 out of 26
  1. Newsday
    Reviewed by: Verne Gay
    100
    It's evocative, smartly structured, well acted and insists that the strange ride you are about to take will be worth every minute.
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  2. Variety
    Reviewed by: Brian Lowry
    80
    It's an intriguing, mind-bending concept that's mostly well executed, with a built-in payoff cleverly timed to coincide with the May rating sweeps.
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  3. Boston Globe
    Reviewed by: Joanna Weiss
    70
    FlashForward is a good idea, and while that’s no guarantee of a good series, the first hour gives us reason to hope.
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