Off the Map
ABC | Release Date: January 12, 2011
CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
49
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 21 Critic Reviews
Positive:
4
Mixed:
14
Negative:
3
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
83
NewsdayVerne GayJan 10, 2011
Season 1 Review: [Rhimes] may still be up to her old tricks, but here they seem fresh and energetic. Best of all, she has a solid young cast that pulls them off well. Read full review
75
People WeeklyTom GliattoJan 20, 2011
Season 1 Review: This enjoyable series from the Grey's Anatomy team is sort of Doctors Without Borders--who are also without too many clothes. [24 Jan 2011, p.41]
67
Boston HeraldMark A. PerigardJan 12, 2011
Season 1 Review: In true "Grey's" fashion, each newbie is challenged with a case that dredges up the personal issues that brought them to this isolated spot, where, according to Ben, it's like practicing medicine in 1952 in a Third World country Read full review
63
Chicago Sun-TimesPaige WiserJan 11, 2011
Season 1 Review: "Grey's Anatomy" creator Shonda Rhimes brings us another soapy doctor drama, set in a lush jungle instead of a hospital. Read full review
60
New York Daily NewsDavid HinckleyJan 12, 2011
Season 1 Review: After you watch Wednesday night's premiere of ABC's doctor drama Off the Map, you might think the title means the show hasn't quite found its path yet. You'd be right. But it's got a shot to get there, with an engaging ensemble cast and a novel premise that could prove useful. Read full review
58
Entertainment WeeklyKen TuckerJan 5, 2011
Season 1 Review: Melodrama, rippling musculature, straight-from-a-Valentine's-Day-card dialogue: There's no reason Off the Map can't become a hit. It just has to avoid sincerity like the plague. Or gangrene. Read full review
50
Zap2it (Inside the Box)Mikey O'ConnellJan 13, 2011
Season 1 Review: OTM doesn't immediately grab us the way "Grey's" or "Private Practice" did--though the latter did suffer an admittedly rocky start. This probably has a lot to do with the fact that there seems to be a bit of an identity crisis happening here. Read full review
50
Philadelphia Daily NewsEllen GrayJan 12, 2011
Season 1 Review: So what we have here is another show in which pretty, mildly tortured people perform deeds of medical derring-do while trying to figure out how they, and various parts of their individual anatomies, might fit together. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleDavid WiegandJan 11, 2011
Season 1 Review: The real challenge for the writers is to use the show's formula without becoming so enslaved to it that they fail to allow the characters to move beyond being cliches. Read full review
50
The New York TimesAlessandra StanleyJan 11, 2011
Season 1 Review: Off the Map takes few chances with plot or characters. Read full review
50
HitfixAlan SepinwallJan 11, 2011
Season 1 Review: There aren't any particularly wince-inducing moments, but nor are the various grabs for the heartstrings as successful as they are when "Grey's" is at its best. No lows, but no highs, either. Read full review
40
PopMattersCynthia FuchsJan 12, 2011
Season 1 Review: The trouble is, they don't surprise you. Their routes to redemption are laid out early and often. Read full review
40
TimeJames PoniewozikJan 12, 2011
Season 1 Review: In practice, Off the Map plays like a rote example of "It's _____, but set in _______!" school of programming, in which the background is much more interesting than the foreground. Read full review
40
TV Guide MagazineMatt RoushJan 12, 2011
Season 1 Review: The conditions at the clinic and surrounding villages are unnervingly primitive, which adds to the drama and the stakes of many of these emergency triage cases. But it's the painfully earnest dialogue that could really make you ill. Read full review
40
Los Angeles TimesMary McNamaraJan 11, 2011
Season 1 Review: Alas, it all plays just as sappy as it sounds, even with the gorgeous and ridiculous distractions of make-do medicine. Read full review
40
The Huffington PostMaureen RyanJan 11, 2011
Season 1 Review: No matter how many times the show piles on another complication for the patients of the week, everything about the characters and the cases has a been-there, done-that feeling, and that rote quality is not mitigated by the occasional acknowledgement of the show's jungle setting. Read full review
40
Boston GlobeMatthew GilbertJan 11, 2011
Season 1 Review: Everything is all up in your grill. The touching moments aren't just touching; they're mauling. The life lessons aren't just suggested; they're shouted at you. Read full review
40
VarietyBrian LowryJan 10, 2011
Season 1 Review: The series opens with the doctors taking a cliff plunge into the inviting ocean, but this is a show where nothing qualifies as a creative leap, much less the sort of dive to merit keeping Off the Map on viewers' radar. Read full review
37
USA TodayRobert BiancoJan 11, 2011
Season 1 Review: Sadly, it takes even less time to realize that Map is a near-criminal waste of talent. Read full review
30
Washington PostHank StueverJan 12, 2011
Season 1 Review: ABC's feverishly dumb new drama Off the Map takes fans of "Grey's Anatomy" and "Private Practice" on an arduous trip to a tiny village in the tropics, "somewhere in South America." It's echh in the time of cholera. Read full review
30
Pittsburgh Post-GazetteRob OwenJan 11, 2011
Season 1 Review: It's a shame that the writing makes Off the Map so unwatchable. Read full review
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