Neverland
SyFy | Release Date: December 4, 2011
CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
59
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 14 Critic Reviews
Positive:
5
Mixed:
9
Negative:
0
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
91
NewsdayDiane WertsNov 30, 2011
Season 1 Review: You can see Neverland as sly philosophical discourse, or you can see it as fantastically produced adventure. Just make sure you see it. Read full review
80
TV Guide MagazineMatt RoushDec 2, 2011
Season 1 Review: Neverland adds clever new twists to the origin story of Peter Pan and Captain Hook while remaining unpretentiously faithful to the adventurous spirit of the original. Read full review
75
People WeeklyTom GliattoDec 2, 2011
Season 1 Review: This Victorian-era prequel to Peter Pan works. [12 Dec 2011, p.48]
75
USA TodayRobert BiancoDec 1, 2011
Season 1 Review: The overly blended result may be as much Dickens, Tolkien and J.K. Rowling as it is J.M. Barrie, but it's still an appealing one. Read full review
70
Wall Street JournalNancy DeWolf SmithDec 2, 2011
Season 1 Review: The story occasionally gets convoluted, or slightly exhausting....But the cast is so strong that there is always something to marvel at. Read full review
60
Los Angeles TimesMary McNamaraDec 2, 2011
Season 1 Review: A cleverly conceived, at times visually lovely, but criminally long imagining of how Peter became Pan. Read full review
60
New York Daily NewsDavid HinckleyDec 2, 2011
Season 1 Review: Neverland, a new prequel to the beloved story of Peter Pan, weaves a complex, often disturbing tale demanding considerably more of its audience than the breezy musical versions. Read full review
50
RedEyeCurt WagnerDec 2, 2011
Season 1 Review: By pulling the curtain back on the magic of Neverland, Willing has stripped all the fun from a marvelous classic. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleDavid WiegandDec 2, 2011
Season 1 Review: It makes for a mildly enjoyable story and it's probably best not to overthink things. Read full review
50
Entertainment WeeklyJohn YoungNov 30, 2011
Season 1 Review: Instead of soaring, Neverland barely hovers. Read full review
42
HitfixAlan SepinwallDec 2, 2011
Season 1 Review: When you spend all your time and energy explaining how the trick works, there's precious little left to entertain the audience. Read full review
40
Pittsburgh Post-GazetteRob OwenDec 5, 2011
Season 1 Review: Everything in Neverland is a quest as characters run from one large set piece to another without much character development except in minor strokes that are predictable and rudimentary. Read full review
40
The New York TimesMike HaleDec 2, 2011
Season 1 Review: Explain it does, at great length but with very little wonder. Read full review
40
VarietyBrian LowryDec 1, 2011
Season 1 Review: As constructed, it amounts to a Peter Pan prequel lacquered up with a revisionist space-age paint job. Read full review
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