New Amsterdam
FOX | Release Date: March 4, 2008
CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
63
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 25 Critic Reviews
Positive:
16
Mixed:
7
Negative:
2
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
60
NewsdayDiane Werts
Season 1 Review: This Fox series is smartly written and acted, and it's even evocatively filmed in New York locations that lend it a gritty city flavor. But.... Less persuasively entwined is a heavy-handed romance whodunit. Read full review
60
Orlando SentinelHal Boedeker
Season 1 Review: The 1642 scenes look downright silly. There are a lot of flashes of humor, too, and they help spice up this loopy premise. Read full review
60
PopMattersCynthia Fuchs
Season 1 Review: The shaman contrivance is surely tedious, but it appears that New Amsterdam uses the immortal design not as a way to Forrest-Gump its protagonist into a set of trite historical situations, but more cleverly, to ask questions about those situations. Read full review
50
Pittsburgh Post-GazetteRob Owen
Season 1 Review: In Tuesday's pilot, New Amsterdam reveals itself as a pedestrian cop show with a vampire-like lead character Read full review
50
VarietyBrian Lowry
Season 1 Review: Easy to dismiss at first glance, the series does exhibit some possibilities in its second episode, though it's still a relatively uninspired time-killer for those of us with just one life to live. Read full review
50
Los Angeles TimesMary McNamara
Season 1 Review: Such a concept seem ripe with delicious possibility. The show, unfortunately, is not. Played out as a cop procedural, it has a predictable narrative structure that at times resembles nothing so much as a prison. Read full review
40
Newark Star-LedgerAlan Sepinwall
Season 1 Review: New Amsterdam is essentially three shows in one: Amsterdam flashing back on all the exciting things he's done in the last 366 years; Amsterdam trying to find The One, and Amsterdam and partner Eva Marquez (Zuleikha Robinson) solving murders like the leads on some kind of supernaturally-charged "Law & Order" spin- off. But only the first of those shows is remotely interesting. Read full review
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