Made in Jersey
CBS | Release Date: September 28, 2012
CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
42
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 19 Critic Reviews
Positive:
3
Mixed:
10
Negative:
6
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
70
Los Angeles TimesRobert LloydSep 28, 2012
Season 1 Review: As schematic and derivative as it is, as invested in piling on the feel-good moments past the point even of suspended disbelief, there is something quite likable about Made in Jersey. Read full review
70
Wall Street JournalDorothy RabinowitzSep 28, 2012
Season 1 Review: Think "Legally Blonde" meets "Working Girl." Kyle MacLachlan plays Martina's perceptive boss in this series, promising for its deft plotting and, perhaps above all, its high spirits. Read full review
63
USA TodayRobert BiancoSep 27, 2012
Season 1 Review: Jersey may just be competent, at best--but that's better than the incompetence that marks so many of the season's new offerings. Read full review
60
New York Daily NewsDavid HinckleySep 28, 2012
Season 1 Review: Made In Jersey feels curiously half-dressed. Read full review
60
The New York TimesNeil GenzlingerSep 27, 2012
Season 1 Review: It's a drama that takes the wretched New Jersey caricature created by trashy shows like "Jersey Shore" and uses it as a force for good, or at least for reasonably good courtroom tales. Read full review
50
Boston HeraldMark A. PerigardSep 28, 2012
Season 1 Review: It's more closely a cross between "My Cousin Vinny" and "The Good Wife," with Janet Montgomery ("Entourage") a dull stand-in for Oscar winner Marisa Tomei. Read full review
50
VarietyBrian LowrySep 27, 2012
Season 1 Review: Made in Jersey looks reasonably polished, without doing much to plant its hook particularly deep. Read full review
50
NewsdayDiane WertsSep 27, 2012
Season 1 Review: Surface fashion styling can't cloak the underlying framework of yet another CBS procedural. Read full review
42
Uncle BarkyEd BarkSep 26, 2012
Season 1 Review: It's a thoroughly ordinary series on what's increasingly an inconsequential night in the not-so-grand broadcast network scheme of things. Read full review
40
TV Guide MagazineMatt RoushSep 28, 2012
Season 1 Review: Jersey's painfully familiar but easy-to-take act, which plays like a USA Network show on auto-pilot, feels "Made for Fridays." Read full review
40
Boston GlobeMatthew GilbertSep 27, 2012
Season 1 Review: Made in Jersey is lame and clichéd, but it's far from the bottom of the barrel on network TV. Read full review
40
Miami HeraldGlenn GarvinSep 27, 2012
Season 1 Review: Made in Jersey is only sporadically engaging. Read full review
40
The Huffington PostMaureen RyanSep 25, 2012
Season 1 Review: For all its predictable moments, however, Made in Jersey is still more or less watchable, thanks to Montgomery, who is an effortlessly appealing actress. Read full review
30
New York Magazine (Vulture)Matt Zoller SeitzSep 28, 2012
Season 1 Review: In the new drama Made in Jersey, Working Girl meets Erin Brockovich, and together they leap into the CBS pit of blandness and drown. Read full review
30
The Hollywood ReporterTim GoodmanSep 27, 2012
Season 1 Review: The predictability is out in force on this series, and despite CBS' ability to make a hit out of pretty much anything it films, this one doesn't really stand up and make a case for itself. Read full review
25
Chicago Sun-TimesLori RacklOct 5, 2012
Season 1 Review: [A] ridiculous rendition of a plucky, working-class gal (Janet Montgomery) who shows 'em all how it's done at a fancy-pants Manhattan law firm. Read full review
25
San Francisco ChronicleDavid WiegandSep 26, 2012
Season 1 Review: The concept is ridiculous, the murder case not even remotely intriguing, the script for the pilot is amateurish, and the whole Jersey thing is so phonied up, you'd actually welcome a cameo by Snooki just to add some verisimilitude. Read full review
8
Entertainment WeeklyDarren FranichSep 21, 2012
Season 1 Review: [A] morass of vanilla quirk and stereotype whack-a-mole. [28 Sep 2012, p.66]
0
Washington PostHank StueverSep 14, 2012
Season 1 Review: She's all pluck and stilettos, and when the day is done, she returns to her typical big Italian family--who might as well be cardboard cutouts eating Ragu out of the jar. Read full review
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