Heist
NBC | Release Date: March 22, 2006
CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
51
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 22 Critic Reviews
Positive:
7
Mixed:
9
Negative:
6

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
88
Chicago Sun-TimesDoug Elfman
Season 1 Review: "Heist" is good TV -- not great yet, but good -- from the cast to the suspenseful pacing and a cool musical score. Read full review
80
The Hollywood ReporterBarry Garron
Season 1 Review: Fun to watch, cleverly written and filled with engaging characters. Read full review
70
Miami HeraldGlenn Garvin
Season 1 Review: Highly entertaining. Read full review
70
NewsdayVerne Gay
Season 1 Review: Far and away the best new pilot on NBC this season. Read full review
70
The New York TimesAlessandra Stanley
Season 1 Review: The story lines and characters are layered and more intricate than in most detective series. Read full review
63
New York Daily NewsDavid Hinckley
Season 1 Review: As silly concoctions go, it's rather tasty. Read full review
63
USA TodayRobert Bianco
Season 1 Review: A comedy-laced caper requires a light, sure touch. Heist tends to plod. Read full review
60
Pittsburgh Post-GazetteRob Owen
Season 1 Review: It's an entertaining enough diversion if you're not expecting much. Read full review
60
Boston GlobeMatthew Gilbert
Season 1 Review: It's worth keeping an eye on the show, in case it finds somewhere to go that's both intricate and unusual. Read full review
60
Philadelphia InquirerJonathan Storm
Season 1 Review: A caper that's as clever and grandiose as any TV series has presented in a long time. And fun. Read full review
58
Entertainment WeeklyKen Tucker
Season 1 Review: An hour of snide cleverness--especially one in which you can predict all the plot twists--gets tired fast. [24 Mar 2006, p.59]
50
San Jose Mercury News/Contra Costa TimesCharlie McCollum
Season 1 Review: It may be that in the long run, "Heist" proves to be something you can admire simply for its pure entertainment value. But right now, it's a show that looks good on the surface but is empty at the core. Read full review
50
Detroit Free PressMike Duffy
Season 1 Review: In between the sardonic wisecracks and tangled storytelling, it's easy to lose interest. Read full review
50
Los Angeles TimesRobert Lloyd
Season 1 Review: Although we are meant to regard its dishonest protagonists as the epitome of contemporary cool, they come off as self-satisfied and pretentious. Read full review
40
VarietyBrian Lowry
Season 1 Review: [The pilot] works a little too hard at establishing a fun-loving, "Swingers""Swingers"-type tone, though at least that represents something of an alternative to "CSI: NY" and ABC's new procedural "The Evidence." Read full review
40
Orlando SentinelHal Boedeker
Season 1 Review: The flippant tone grows tiresome and clashes with harrowing bursts of violence. Read full review
30
TV Guide MagazineMatt Roush
Season 1 Review: Heist is a tiresome mess.
30
Seattle Post-IntelligencerMelanie McFarland
Season 1 Review: All the clever, sexy banter in this thing cannot cover up its utter lack of believability, from the casting to the excessively hip repartee. Read full review
30
Chicago TribuneMaureen Ryan
Season 1 Review: Employing the kind of overly clever, self-consciously "witty" dialogue that unfailingly announces a lack of real ideas on the part of the writers, "Heist" is by far the least compelling of these new crime-life series. Read full review
30
SlateTroy Patterson
Season 1 Review: The pilot episode of this caper series is cheaply derivative, generally condescending, and largely hollow. It is also swank and busy enough to create the occasional illusion that it is entertaining. Read full review
25
San Francisco ChronicleTim Goodman
Season 1 Review: The writing in "Heist" is self-consciously forced, as if the writers are breaking their backs to be quick-witted and clever. It's painful to hear. Read full review
10
Washington PostTom Shales
Season 1 Review: "Heist" seems derivative of an imitation of a copy of a clone -- so plastic-coated and phony that it's hard to tell what it's ripping off. Read full review
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