Pure Genius
CBS | Release Date: October 27, 2016
CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
43
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 19 Critic Reviews
Positive:
4
Mixed:
8
Negative:
7
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
58
Entertainment WeeklyShirley LiOct 17, 2016
Season 1 Review: A formulaic medical drama. [21/28 Oct 2016, p.97]
50
Boston HeraldMark A. PerigardOct 26, 2016
Season 1 Review: Nobody registers much of a connection. What’s missing from this show is heart. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleDavid WiegandOct 24, 2016
Season 1 Review: The show has potential, if only because with so many ideas floating around, something is bound to stick. Read full review
50
VarietySonia SaraiyaOct 20, 2016
Season 1 Review: Without either dramatic stakes or grounded reality, Pure Genius is flat and saccharine, a longer version of the carefully pristine world seen in pharmaceutical commercials. Read full review
40
Los Angeles TimesMeredith BlakeOct 26, 2016
Season 1 Review: Pure Genius is a formulaic procedural posing as a TED talk, a standard case-of-the-week medical drama gussied up with high-tech gear and dubious science. ... It also doesn’t help that Pure Genius is built around not one, but two inert leads. Read full review
40
The New York TimesJames PoniewozikOct 26, 2016
Season 1 Review: This is just a doctor drama with C.G.I. and without interesting character dynamics. Bell, at least, is a distinctive lead personality--he’s not at all likable, but that could be by design, and Mr. Prew commits to his precious smarminess. Read full review
40
Philadelphia Daily NewsEllen GrayOct 26, 2016
Season 1 Review: The science behind Bell's confidence isn't complete fantasy, according to Katims, although the producer acknowledged that it's not yet available. ... That's great--at least for those who aren't facing imminent death from causes that happen to interest the writers of Pure Genius--but that lack of immediacy also means the stakes aren't as high as they are for most medical dramas, even if the graphics are much, much better. Read full review
40
Reason.comGlenn GarvinOct 22, 2016
Season 1 Review: In other words, all the same stuff you've seen on every TV medical drama back to the days of Ben Casey and Dr. Kildare, from which Pure Genius is indistinguishable except for the color photography. Read full review
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