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
80
Miami HeraldGlenn Garvin
Season 1 Review: This tale of a lonely cop left behind by everyone--partners, friends, lovers, even the criminals he pursues--has a piercing melancholy that elevates it way above its fantasy trappings. Read full review
80
Wall Street JournalNancy DeWolf Smith
Season 1 Review: The underlying theme here, once the fantastic elements are stripped away, is loneliness. That (plus the interesting face of its star) gives New Amsterdam a true and very tender heart. Read full review
80
New York Magazine (Vulture)John Leonard
Season 1 Review: The resulting series features trick photography, murder, romance, and--much like the Fox "Terminator" series--more clever ideas and witty jokes, not to mention cool jazz, than the audience expects or deserves. Read full review
75
Chicago Sun-TimesMisha Davenport
Season 1 Review: New Amsterdam is smart and far more original than most of the new series this season, which warrants it becoming a Monday habit. Read full review
75
New York PostLinda Stasi
Season 1 Review: Eight episodes or not, don't count this show dead before it's born. Read full review
75
USA TodayRobert Bianco
Season 1 Review: This relatively entertaining fantasy has one obvious viewership advantage over many of its strike-bound scripted competitors: new episodes, and not bad ones at that. Read full review
70
The Hollywood ReporterRay Richmond
Season 1 Review: The premiere teleplay from Christian Taylor does a capable, if slightly workmanlike, job of setting the stage for what's to follow, while Coster-Waldau paints a beguiling portrait of a brooding, conflicted, undeniably charismatic soul. Read full review
70
San Jose Mercury News/Contra Costa TimesCharlie McCollum
Season 1 Review: New Amsterdam is worth keeping an eye on as it develops. It could become consistently engaging television. Read full review
70
TV Guide MagazineMatt Roush
Season 1 Review: The procedural stuff is mostly drab, but John's institutional memories of the Big Apple (dating back to when it was still a big jungle) make New Amsterdam more intriguing than it initially appears. Read full review
70
Boston GlobeMatthew Gilbert
Season 1 Review: Coster-Waldau makes John so alien and distant as to be annoyingly inscrutable. But in Thursday's episode, we begin to learn more particulars about John's history, and how he maintains his secret. And that's when Coster-Waldau becomes more vivid and the show begins to rise above its silly murder-of-the-week plots Read full review
70
The New York TimesGinia Bellafante
Season 1 Review: The filmmaker Lasse Hallstrom has directed the pilot with cool, almost metallic tones, as if trying to conceal the show’s distorted bedrock sentimentality. He can’t. Read full review
70
Washington PostJohn Maynard
Season 1 Review: This new drama has bad dialogue to spare, too, which mars an otherwise distinctive, better-than-average police show. Read full review
70
Philadelphia Daily NewsEllen Gray
Season 1 Review: New Amsterdam's pilot, directed by Lasse Hallstrom, who's also one of the show's executive producers, is as well-executed as any I've seen this season. Read full review
70
Philadelphia InquirerJonathan Storm
Season 1 Review: [New Amsterdam's premise] is not the greatest thing since the invention of the tin can, which came along right in the middle of our hero's life, but it turns out to be much less stupid than it sounds. Read full review
67
Entertainment WeeklyMarc Bernardin
Season 1 Review: The debuting metaphysical cop drama comes on like a randy high schooler, dumping too much backstory too fast. [7 Mar 2008, p.88]
63
New York Daily NewsDavid Hinckley
Season 1 Review: What we have in a sense, then, is another boy-girl dance playing off against the tension of lethal crime in New York. But the premise is novel enough that maybe John won't be just tilting at windmills. Read full review
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