Galavant
ABC | Release Date: January 4, 2015
CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
64
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 30 Critic Reviews
Positive:
14
Mixed:
14
Negative:
2
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
60
SalonSonia SaraiyaJan 8, 2015
Season 1 Review: Galavant is extremely silly--but at least it knows it’s silly. Read full review
60
Boston GlobeMatthew GilbertJan 3, 2015
Season 1 Review: Galavant is a musical spoof of knight-in-shining-armor stories that is slight, unoriginal, and uneven, but that can be amusing and diverting nonetheless. Read full review
60
Los Angeles TimesRobert LloydJan 3, 2015
Season 1 Review: At times it feels enough that the players seem to be enjoying themselves to enjoy it alongside them. Read full review
60
RogerEbert.comBrian TallericoJan 2, 2015
Season 1 Review: Half the jokes are inspired; half the jokes hit the floor. Read full review
60
Denver PostJoanne OstrowJan 2, 2015
Season 1 Review: Self-indulgent but packed with great cameos and kitschy production numbers, the whole affair could have been a tight 90 minutes. Instead it's flamboyantly self-referential and clocks in at four hours. Read full review
60
New York Magazine (Vulture)Margaret LyonsJan 2, 2015
Season 1 Review: I wish Galavant were a movie. I found the show charming and festive and impressively committed, but in half-hour chunks, there's very little room to build the kind of momentum the series needs. Read full review
60
SlateWilla PaskinJan 2, 2015
Season 1 Review: This is, without question, the oddest show to arrive on television in quite some time. ... [But] unlike the best musicals and fairy tales, it never once transports you to a land far, far away. Read full review
60
Washington PostHank StueverJan 2, 2015
Season 1 Review: The show offers an excess of mildly clever yet sincere goofiness. It’s as if someone set out to make a Spamalot for an audience that can’t quite grok Python, would find Into the Woods too morose and maybe missed half the pop-culture references in the Shrek movies. Read full review
50
The New York TimesNeil GenzlingerJan 2, 2015
Season 1 Review: Despite some amusing bits and clever songs, it’s only occasionally as much fun as it ought to be. Read full review
50
Pittsburgh Post-GazetteRob OwenJan 2, 2015
Season 1 Review: The series does try to develop its characters, but Galavant never quite finds a way to ideally pull together its gonzo comedic spirit and musical aspirations. Read full review
50
USA TodayRobert BiancoJan 2, 2015
Season 1 Review: Nothing about Galavant is quite as good as it needs to be — or nearly as good as the multiple spoofs it seems to be copying, in part because it never seems to be quite sure about what exactly it's spoofing. Read full review
42
NewsdayVerne GayJan 3, 2015
Season 1 Review: It's all got the stirrings of something that should be funny, or wants to be funny, except that it's too often not - confoundedly, relentlessly, insistently not. [3 Jan 2015]
40
The OregonianKristi TurnquistJan 4, 2015
Season 1 Review: It comes off as way too broad to be witty, and too raunchy to be a comfortable fit for family viewing. Read full review
40
New York Daily NewsDavid HinckleyJan 3, 2015
Season 1 Review: Just being incredibly good-natured isn’t quite enough to create a show you’d want to watch every week. Read full review
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