• Network: ABC
  • Series Premiere Date: Mar 3, 1985
Season #: 5, 4, 3, 2, 1
Metascore
62

Generally favorable reviews - based on 20 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 11 out of 20
  2. Negative: 2 out of 20
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  1. The Guardian
    Reviewed by: Nancy Banks-Smith
    Sep 27, 2023
    60
    If wit is what you don't expect or even if wit isn't, the opening of Moonlighting is a funny sequence. [30 May 1986, p.10]
  2. Baltimore Sun
    Reviewed by: Bill Carter
    Sep 28, 2023
    40
    It's just not very good. [03 Mar 1985, p.3D]
  3. Reviewed by: Tom Shales
    Sep 27, 2023
    40
    We expect television programs to be derivative, but Moonlighting doesn't even do its borrowing with finesse.
  4. Arizona Republic
    Reviewed by: Bud Wilkinson
    Sep 27, 2023
    40
    ABC's programming team must be either extremely desperate or extremely short of original ideas, and I'll wager both notions are accurate. [02 Mar 1985]
  5. Detroit Free Press
    Reviewed by: Mike Duffy
    Sep 27, 2023
    40
    Moonlighting is in desperate need of a chemistry lesson. [03 Mar 1985, p.3C]
  6. Miami Herald
    Reviewed by: Steve Sonsky
    Sep 27, 2023
    40
    Why go for the imitation when you can have the original? Stick with real magnetism and Remington on Tuesdays. [06 Mar 1985, p.5B]
  7. Philadelphia Inquirer
    Reviewed by: Lee Winfrey
    Sep 27, 2023
    40
    Moonlighting is a series that looks creatively exhausted as soon as it stumbles out of the starting gate. [01 Mar 1985, p.6D]