Missing (2012)

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Season 1
  • Network: ABC
  • Series Premiere Date: Mar 15, 2012
Metascore
56

Mixed or average reviews - based on 25 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9 out of 25
  2. Mixed: 13 out of 25
  3. Negative: 3 out of 25
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Critic Reviews

  1. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: David Hinckley
    Mar 15, 2012
    60
    As drama it has a few holes and clearly a lot of backstory that will unspool at its own pace....But the narrative is crisp, fast and easy to follow.
  2. Boston Globe
    Reviewed by: Sarah Rodman
    Mar 14, 2012
    60
    It may not be groundbreaking, but for Judd fans, Missing isn't the worst way to lose an hour.
  3. Newsday
    Reviewed by: Verne Gay
    Mar 13, 2012
    58
    Nice locales (Paris! Rome!), a couple of decent action sequences... but otherwise a tepid potboiler over-seasoned with too many spy tropes and a plot with too many gaping holes.
  5. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Ken Tucker
    Mar 12, 2012
    58
    The international settings are pretty and Judd does her damnedest with what she's got, but Missing's tough-mom role and poorly paced, unsuspenseful suspense scenes make the series hard to root for.
  6. Uncle Barky
    Reviewed by: Ed Bark
    Mar 16, 2012
    50
    Missing's clue unraveling is barely believable when it's not simply preposterous.
  7. PopMatters
    Reviewed by: Lesley Smith
    Mar 15, 2012
    50
    Despite pacy editing, superb action choreography, and location shooting across Europe, the whole turns out to be yet another re-run of that updated Western, 24, which pits an arrogant outlaw protagonist against friend and foe alike.
  8. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Mary McNamara
    Mar 14, 2012
    50
    What viewers are left with, then, are some excellent fight and chase scenes, an outstanding supporting cast (who, alas, only highlight the main character's deficiencies) and a lot of truly beautiful location work. It may be enough, but it could, and should, have been so much more.
  9. RedEye
    Reviewed by: Curt Wagner
    Mar 14, 2012
    50
    Missing barely winks at the silliness it slings.
  10. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Hank Stuever
    Mar 14, 2012
    50
    It prefers action at points where it could really stand to slow down and build out a slightly more creative story. It's the very definition of a guilty-pleasure series.
  11. USA Today
    Reviewed by: Robert Bianco
    Mar 14, 2012
    50
    A supremely silly series that takes itself incredibly seriously.
  12. Variety
    Reviewed by: Brian Lowry
    Mar 12, 2012
    50
    Aside from the fact spying and parenting don't mix, though, there's nothing fresh about Missing.
  13. New York Magazine (Vulture)
    Reviewed by: Matt Zoller Seitz
    Mar 15, 2012
    40
    The premiere boasts intriguing hints of self-awareness but never quite follows through on them, and that's too bad.
  14. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Mike Hale
    Mar 14, 2012
    40
    Missing, created by the screenwriter Gregory Poirier, isn't a particularly good show. The dialogue is mostly wooden, and the plot, through two episodes, is standard spy-story stuff.

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#95 Best TV Season of 2012
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#48 Most Discussed TV Season of 2012
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#47 Most Shared TV Season of 2012

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User Score
6.3

Generally favorable reviews- based on 34 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 21 out of 34
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 34
  3. Negative: 9 out of 34
  1. EludiumQ36
    Mar 16, 2012
    3
    "Missing" is so ridiculously over the top with Ashley Judd as some soccer-mom cum killer agent. She's a weird (and failed) mashup of Martha"Missing" is so ridiculously over the top with Ashley Judd as some soccer-mom cum killer agent. She's a weird (and failed) mashup of Martha Stewart and La Femme Nikita. So many plot and enduring-wardrobe holes that I'm sure the van that took her son drove back and forth through them. It was an easy delete decision and should be an easy early-cancel decision too.… Full Review »
  2. 1016Sammy
    Mar 16, 2012
    9
    Beautiful show with lots of potential with skillful writing I see it going over 5 seasons its. Ashley Judd is so believable in her role asBeautiful show with lots of potential with skillful writing I see it going over 5 seasons its. Ashley Judd is so believable in her role as Mama Bourne. I loved it the sets were great as well… Full Review »
  3. TVMovieFan
    Mar 15, 2012
    9
    I enjoyed it thoroughly, It was suspenseful, entertaining, action packed and I wasnt expecting to be any of these qualities before I watchedI enjoyed it thoroughly, It was suspenseful, entertaining, action packed and I wasnt expecting to be any of these qualities before I watched the season opener. It has everything going for it, now i'm really down to see what happens next and to find out why exactly her son was nabbed and if Sean Bean comes back from the dead lol.… Full Review »
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