Ironside (2013)
NBC | Release Date: October 2, 2013
CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
44
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 27 Critic Reviews
Positive:
4
Mixed:
14
Negative:
9
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
38
Slant MagazineMike LechevallierOct 2, 2013
Season 1 Review: Being confined to a wheelchair might someday teach Ironside some humility, diminishing his round-the-clock animosity as the series progresses, but for now all it's apparently done is turn him into even more of a jerk. Read full review
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USA TodayRobert BiancoOct 1, 2013
Season 1 Review: An atrociously clunky [revival] that keeps only the rough outline--a wounded detective confined to a wheelchair--while jettisoning whatever wit and intelligence the original possessed makes no sense at all. Read full review
30
TV Guide MagazineMatt RoushOct 2, 2013
Season 1 Review: [Ironside's] handicap has nothing to do with a wheelchair but with a preposterous attitude that's in your face and laughably over-the-top. When the show isn't being a thuddingly ordinary procedural, it's mawkish, wasting The Killing's Brent Sexton as Ironside's shattered partner--yes, an emotional cripple. Read full review
30
The Hollywood ReporterTim GoodmanOct 2, 2013
Season 1 Review: All this Ironside does is talk tough and spout exposition endlessly. Yak, yak, yak. There's more talking and less action in Ironside than there is in The Newsroom. Oh, and when there is action, it's just ridiculous. Read full review
30
PopMattersLesley SmithOct 2, 2013
Season 1 Review: Ironside is an exercise in cynicism, a safety-first raid on the vaults with not a shred of respect for either the its prospective audience. Read full review
30
The New York TimesNeil GenzlingerOct 1, 2013
Season 1 Review: Blair Underwood makes the title character an unpleasant combination of macho and brusque. That’s how you get people to go looking for something else to watch.... As independent as this new Ironside is, thanks to the plodding writing here, he is being defined by his disability, the exact opposite of what someone in his condition would want. Read full review
25
Chicago Sun-TimesLori RacklOct 1, 2013
Season 1 Review: While it’s better than getting stung by a bee, I’d rather watch fingernails dry. Read full review
20
Miami HeraldGlenn GarvinOct 2, 2013
Season 1 Review: It is a dank and ugly affair, with Underwood playing a dour, Nietzschean superhero who is encumbered neither by his paralyzed legs (rendered useless by a criminal’s bullet) nor petit bourgeois considerations of law and morality. Read full review
20
HollywoodChicago.comBrian TallericoOct 1, 2013
Season 1 Review: It’s just manipulative drama that hopes to make you stand up and cheer by reminding you over and over again how tough its title character remains. Read full review
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