Motive

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Season 1
  • Network: ABC , CTV
  • Series Premiere Date: Feb 3, 2013
Season #: 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1
User Score
6.6

Generally favorable reviews- based on 23 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 14 out of 23
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 23
  3. Negative: 5 out of 23
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  1. wollyv
    May 22, 2013
    8
    The series is entertaining. That is what it should be. If your are looking for art, change the channel, if you are looking for yet another entertaining, scripted crime drama you will like it. The victim and the killer are identfied at the start and the series is called "Motive", i.e. the "why" is the center of the plot. A little surprise, a little humor, a little "homicide cops & killer".The series is entertaining. That is what it should be. If your are looking for art, change the channel, if you are looking for yet another entertaining, scripted crime drama you will like it. The victim and the killer are identfied at the start and the series is called "Motive", i.e. the "why" is the center of the plot. A little surprise, a little humor, a little "homicide cops & killer". Not boring, not "end guessable" and a must for hard-core Stargate- /SGU-fans.… Expand
  2. nautico
    May 21, 2013
    4
    Boring. The only other cops-and-robbers series that I can recall as having used this device of identifying the culprit from the git go was Columbo, and Motive is no Columbo. Once the audience knows who done it, the writers must come up with a lot more reasons to keep watching such a show than the trite banter that characterized the opening episode.
  3. bigweezey
    Jul 12, 2013
    1
    The show is called Motive. Enough said. Who wants to find out how a crime happened when we already know who the killer is? That already took the fun out of it for me. I care what the motive was but the could easily be a 5 minute show. Just ask the killer what the motive was and be done.
  4. JPManning
    Jul 29, 2014
    8
    Set in and around Vancouver, this police crime show is fun to watch. I like the single story plots (no long-term subplots to struggle with interminably through. Nice plot twists. Good chemistry between all the lead characters. A pleasant change from today's heavy cop shows.
  5. sapphine
    Feb 13, 2017
    6
    not much twist, it get less interesting because the killer exposed in the beginning of the movie. there is not much up and down in the movie so after watching 3 seasons it gets pretty boring
  6. toin0u
    Aug 6, 2018
    0
    a stupid formatted serie T_T
    a blond bimbo cop with his macho colleague who solve stupid investigations
    oh yeah and by the way,
    of course there's an hispanic a black man and a white man
    pfffffff

Awards & Rankings

85
#85 Most Shared TV Season of 2013

Critic Reviews

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Metascore
51

Mixed or average reviews - based on 14 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 14
  2. Mixed: 9 out of 14
  3. Negative: 2 out of 14
  1. Slant Magazine
    Reviewed by: Mike Lechevallier
    May 22, 2013
    38
    Motive flounders chiefly, however, because it expends lasting suspense by providing the audience with all the hard facts they need up front, subsequently granting them an invitation to leave the party early.
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  2. Philadelphia Inquirer
    Reviewed by: David Hiltbrand
    May 20, 2013
    70
    Its nonlinear, whydunit approach makes the show stand out. The fractured loop-de-loop narrative creates not just surprise but suspense.
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  3. Hitfix
    Reviewed by: Alan Sepinwall
    May 20, 2013
    50
    The characters don't feel any richer here than they do on CBS' various cop shows, and the series doesn't even commit to how much it wants to keep you guessing about why the crime occurred.
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