Killer Women
ABC | Release Date: January 7, 2014
CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
49
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 22 Critic Reviews
Positive:
5
Mixed:
12
Negative:
5
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
83
The A.V. ClubSonia SaraiyaJan 7, 2014
Season 1 Review: It’s not doing a whole lot of work to examine the role of women in society, but it is a show with a single and still-novel goal: to entertain women, without patronizing them. Read full review
75
New York Daily NewsDavid HinckleyJan 6, 2014
Season 1 Review: As the title declares with pride, the show has a lot in common with old-style drive-in second features at drive-ins. Read full review
70
Philadelphia Daily NewsEllen GrayJan 6, 2014
Season 1 Review: The show's action-packed and wildly improbable, but Helfer looks as if she might be having fun, and if you don't think too hard (and wouldn't rather be watching the gunplay in "Justified"), you might, too. Read full review
67
Washington PostHank StueverJan 3, 2014
Season 1 Review: Like all shows set in Texas, Killer Women is cooked through with too much yee-haw sauce and a whole lot of urban-cowgirl chic, but Helfer ably carries off the assignment and keeps the momentum going. Read full review
63
St. Louis Post-DispatchGail PenningtonJan 7, 2014
Season 1 Review: It breaks absolutely no new ground, but it's lively, fast-paced and enjoyable enough, if you like this sort of thing. Read full review
60
San Antonio Express-NewsJeanne JakleJan 14, 2014
Season 1 Review: If you can overlook [that most of it was filmed in New Mexico]--not to mention all the Texas stereotypes--the new hour from executive producer Sofia Vergara of “Modern Family” fame is a fairly amusing cops-and-killers romp featuring lots of easy-on-the-eyes actresses and references to San Antonio, Alamo Heights, Bexar County and the Hill Country. Read full review
50
Entertainment WeeklyHillary BusisJan 8, 2014
Season 1 Review: A by-the-book series that is way less fun than something executive-produced by Sofia Vergara has any right to be. [17 Jan 2014, p.62] Read full review
50
TV Guide MagazineMatt RoushJan 7, 2014
Season 1 Review: This is Texas, y'all. And you may very well feel like you've been to this rodeo before. Read full review
50
Boston HeraldMark A. PerigardJan 7, 2014
Season 1 Review: Executive producer Sofia Vergara, better known as Gloria on ABC’s “Modern Family,” and series creator Hannah Shakespeare (“The Raven”) have a lot of ideas, but there isn’t a single surprise in the batch. Read full review
50
The New York TimesAlessandra StanleyJan 6, 2014
Season 1 Review: There is some archness in Killer Women--the opening scene looks like a Robert Palmer music video from the 1980s--but no real humor and still less suspense. Read full review
50
USA TodayRobert BiancoJan 6, 2014
Season 1 Review: Killer Women is Cagney & Lacey without Lacey and with an all-female criminal cast--along with a higher proportion of saps than the ads would have you believe. Read full review
50
Pittsburgh Post-GazetteRob OwenJan 6, 2014
Season 1 Review: At heart, Killer Women is a procedural drama with a surface-strong female protagonist; scratch the surface and it's the same easy, familiar programming. Read full review
50
VarietyBrian LowryJan 6, 2014
Season 1 Review: While the premise might appear to be plumbing some of the same culture-clash depths as FX’s “The Bridge,” in other words, it mostly settles for being an old-fashioned procedural. Read full review
50
Denver PostJoanne OstrowJan 6, 2014
Season 1 Review: Both [Killer Women on ABC, "Intelligence" on CBS] feel like paint-by-numbers hours, unsatisfying offerings that are difficult to recall an hour after you've watched them. Read full review
50
HitfixAlan SepinwallJan 6, 2014
Season 1 Review: It's all pretty retro and forgettable. Read full review
42
Uncle BarkyEd BarkJan 6, 2014
Season 1 Review: Expect nothing new under the sun from a drama set in San Antonio, filmed in New Mexico and falling flat wherever the cameras might roll. Read full review
40
Los Angeles TimesMary McNamaraJan 7, 2014
Season 1 Review: A clunky, clichéd Texas-based crime drama that has the added bonus of being unforgivably sexist, never mind that it was created and produced by women. Read full review
37
Chicago Sun-TimesLori RacklJan 7, 2014
Season 1 Review: Neither pilot [Intelligence or Killer Women] left me with a desire for more. Read full review
33
The Lincoln Journal StarJeff KorbelikMar 27, 2014
Season 1 Review: It's more video game, than TV drama. Read full review
25
San Francisco ChronicleDavid WiegandJan 6, 2014
Season 1 Review: The performances are OK, and it would be nice to see Helfer in better material, but the scripts are not just cliche-ridden--they're moth-eaten. Read full review
16
NewsdayVerne GayJan 6, 2014
Season 1 Review: The worst new show of 2014 can take solace that there are still 358 days left for another one to exceed it. Read full review
10
The Hollywood ReporterTim GoodmanJan 7, 2014
Season 1 Review: This is a really bad show. It’s a show so bad that if it was smart enough to be a spoof, it would be genius. But it’s not. Read full review
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