Nashville
FOX | Release Date: September 21, 2007
CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
38
METASCORE
Generally unfavorable reviews based on 13 Critic Reviews
Positive:
3
Mixed:
1
Negative:
9
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
80
San Jose Mercury News/Contra Costa TimesCharlie McCollum
Season 1 Review: The show could grow on you quickly because those involved are actually talented and engaging on- and offstage. One upside to Nashville is that it doesn't feel as staged as "Laguna Beach" or, in particular, "The Hills," a spinoff of "Beach." Read full review
75
New York Daily NewsDavid Hinckley
Season 1 Review: Many of its real-life characters display a lot of talent. They also are so transparent about their emotions, whether sincere or calculating, that their social interactions play more like a scripted soap on fast forward. Read full review
70
The Hollywood ReporterRay Richmond
Season 1 Review: It's clear that this new Fox original series has its class act together as it follows singers both on the verge or stardom and just starting out as they chase their dreams in the capital of country music. Read full review
40
The New York TimesVirginia Heffernan
Season 1 Review: As a self-aware show, perhaps too self-aware, Nashville attends closely to the money-country nexus, mindful that it’s not your daddy’s, nor Robert Altman’s, "Nashville." Read full review
30
Los Angeles TimesJon Caramanica
Season 1 Review: Almost every scene on Nashville feels ploddingly staged. Every conversation is alarmingly, and unconvincingly, topical; no scene is wasted. Read full review
30
NewsdayDiane Werts
Season 1 Review: This show is slickly packaged and unchallengingly trite in its slavish reality-show construction. Read full review
30
VarietyPhil Gallo
Season 1 Review: The show is as directionless as its stars. Read full review
30
Seattle Post-IntelligencerMelanie McFarland
Season 1 Review: It takes a while to connect to these characters, and those who show up might not be willing to stick around until the melodrama kicks in. Read full review
30
Washington PostJohn Maynard
Season 1 Review: All the slick production values and some decent music in Nashville can't make up for these one-dimensional subjects, and their angst over their fledgling careers grows tiresome. Read full review
25
Chicago Sun-TimesDoug Elfman
Season 1 Review: My name is Clint, and I'm a big stupid doofus from Texas starring in a new "docu-soap" called Nashville, where me and a bunch of other country singers try to become famous, like those girls did on "Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County." Read full review
20
Boston GlobeMatthew Gilbert
Season 1 Review: Even if you're a shameless lover of "Laguna Beach" and its spinoff, "The Hills," you should probably avoid this country-flavored iteration of the semi-scripted reality soap formula. It's pretty doggone dull. Read full review
20
Chicago TribuneMaureen Ryan
Season 1 Review: It all seems painfully staged and contrived. Read full review
20
Miami HeraldGlenn Garvin
Season 1 Review: The show's dialogue feels scripted, its frequent hookups and breakups abrupt and phony, and its scenes from the music business out and out fraudulent. Read full review
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