Hellcats
The CW | CW | Release Date: September 8, 2010
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
60
HitfixDaniel Fienberg
Season 1 Review: It's not especially fresh material, nor is it all that nuanced, but it's peppy and occasionally clever and it offers ample eye candy for any and all tastes. Read full review
60
SlateTroy Patterson
Season 1 Review: It takes us to the South and to a class-conscious frame of mind and then introduces a web of complicated relationships that the eye recognizes as cross-racial but the dialogue does not. For now, it seems that this is a tale of collegiate self-discovery and hand-spring liberation that just happens to be set in the post-racial America I keep hearing about it. Read full review
60
Zap2it (Inside the Box)Hanh Nguyen
Season 1 Review: Is it must-see TV? Perhaps not, but it's a lively and light addition to The CW lineup and pairs well with the unabashed silliness of "America's Next Top Model." Read full review
60
New York Daily NewsDavid Hinckley
Season 1 Review: In the larger picture, Hellcats has the deceptively tricky mission of taking what has been a 90-minute idea in most other incarnations and stretching it into an ongoing series. But it serves up plenty of eye candy to enhance the ride, so hey, gimme an M for Marti! Read full review
60
VarietyBrian Lowry
Season 1 Review: Played partly tongue in cheek, the show's premiere isn't quite unabashedly trashy enough to completely qualify as a guilty pleasure, but one can see it developing into that. Read full review
50
USA TodayRobert Bianco
Season 1 Review: So what you get from Hellcats is a wildly derivative wish-fulfillment view of college life made to appeal to junior-high girls, most of whom are too young to recognize how many shows and movies Hellcats has appropriated. Read full review
50
Boston HeraldMark A. Perigard
Season 1 Review: Tom Welling's picked up all the wrong lessons from behind the screen, from premise to character development. Hellcats is poorly paced and its attempts at comedy and drama stumble. Read full review
40
Boston GlobeMatthew Gilbert
Season 1 Review: Story-wise, the show is awful--stock characters, nonsensical motivations, obvious plot turns, bad acting... The routines--and the dynamic filming of them --are dazzling enough to distract from the surrounding lousiness. Read full review
40
Philadelphia Daily NewsEllen Gray
Season 1 Review: With all due respect to cheerleaders, and, um, hellcats, I'm a dog person myself. So when I say I didn't actually hate Hellcats, it means something. If nothing else, I'm in awe of the athleticism. Read full review
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