October Road
ABC | Release Date: March 15, 2007
CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
23
METASCORE
Generally unfavorable reviews based on 25 Critic Reviews
Positive:
0
Mixed:
5
Negative:
20
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
50
Entertainment WeeklyKen Tucker
Season 1 Review: Achingly sincere, deeply unbelievable. Read full review
50
Detroit Free PressMike Duffy
Season 1 Review: Alternately engaging and annoying. Read full review
50
Kansas City StarAaron Barnhart
Season 1 Review: It’s like “Men in Trees” ... for men. Read full review
40
Orlando SentinelHal Boedeker
Season 1 Review: An uneven and often pretentious drama. Read full review
40
San Jose Mercury News/Contra Costa TimesCharlie McCollum
Season 1 Review: It has its moments, particularly as it progresses. Read full review
38
People WeeklyTom Gliatto
Season 1 Review: Is there anything here that Bruce Springsteen hasn't already sung about? [19 Mar 2007, p.39]
30
VarietyBrian Lowry
Season 1 Review: [It] feels like a Hallmark movie stretched into series form. Read full review
30
Los Angeles TimesPaul Brownfield
Season 1 Review: Here, I guess, is a dude's version of an ABC chick show. Read full review
25
New York PostLinda Stasi
Season 1 Review: The acting is OK, but not so OK that you can overlook their model-good-looks. I mean, no town can be that full of perfect specimens. But you would have thought Hollywood couldn't be so full of bad writers either. Read full review
25
USA TodayRobert Bianco
Season 1 Review: An appalling combination of precious and pretentious. Read full review
25
Chicago Sun-TimesDoug Elfman
Season 1 Review: A rote TV drama. Read full review
25
New York Daily NewsDavid Hinckley
Season 1 Review: A sort of perfect storm of bad writing. Read full review
20
Pittsburgh Post-GazetteRob Owen
Season 1 Review: "October Road" is perhaps one of the most clumsily plotted, illogical drama pilots to be produced in years. Read full review
20
The Hollywood ReporterBarry Garron
Season 1 Review: The stories trudge along like a semi on a steep uphill grade. Taken as a whole, the show looks more like something pasted together for potential demographic appeal than anyone's dramatic vision. Read full review
20
Newark Star-LedgerAlan Sepinwall
Season 1 Review: All of the characters speak in the same exposition-heavy voice; their individual quirks... are too calculated to be interesting; and the soundtrack is both too on-the-nose... and, for the most part, 10-15 years too old for the characters. Read full review
20
Boston GlobeMatthew Gilbert
Season 1 Review: I kept waiting for the unexpected beat, the surprising plot riff, the inverted cliche , but they never came. Read full review
12
San Francisco ChronicleTim Goodman
Season 1 Review: It's a coming-of-age story so overwrought and emotionally predictable, it's -- what's the word here? -- unwatchable. Read full review
10
NewsdayDiane Werts
Season 1 Review: There's nothing unexpected here, and certainly no adventure, just who's sleeping with whom, and who's the daddy, and why they're still so juvenile, and how Tom Berenger ended up in this soapy soup. Read full review
10
The New York TimesGinia Bellafante
Season 1 Review: The series... exists as the kind of bad soap opera that quickly allows you to see what makes a good one. Read full review
10
Philadelphia InquirerJonathan Storm
Season 1 Review: [It] can pack more cliches into 10 minutes than bad old WB dramas had in an hour. Read full review
10
Washington PostTom Shales
Season 1 Review: The show is as commercial and mechanical as an entry-level Mercedes, but not as emotionally involving. Read full review
10
L.A. WeeklyRobert Abele
Season 1 Review: It almost seems to thrive on triteness and lack of cohesion. Read full review
0
Chicago TribuneMaureen Ryan
Season 1 Review: This wretched show not only features a lead character who is an unredeemable nitwit but dialogue that manages to be leaden, preposterous and pretentious all at once. Read full review
0
TV Guide MagazineMatt Roush
Season 1 Review: The woeful sub-Dawson's Creek dialogue caused me actual pain. Read full review
0
Seattle Post-IntelligencerMelanie McFarland
Season 1 Review: To put it mildly, and succinctly, it's appalling. Read full review
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