Ransom (2017)
CBS | Release Date: January 1, 2017
CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Mixed or average reviews based on 12 Critic Reviews
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Mixed:
11
Negative:
1
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
58
Uncle BarkyEd BarkJan 3, 2017
Season 1 Review: There are likely to be more to come on a network that only occasionally fails to keep its crime hours in play for multiple seasons. Ransom is easier to take than some of them, and with a hero who doesn’t have to brandish a gun to get the job done. Read full review
58
Entertainment WeeklyChancellor AgardJan 3, 2017
Season 1 Review: In general, lack of energy is a problem for this show. It’s missing that electricity that makes investing in yet another great man procedural worth it. Read full review
58
The Detroit NewsTom LongDec 30, 2016
Season 1 Review: It’s not bad television, really. It’s just by-the-CBS-book television. Read full review
50
Los Angeles Daily NewsRob LowmanJan 3, 2017
Season 1 Review: For what it is--something serviceable to fit in CBS’s Saturday lineup--Ransom will do, but pretty much is a square peg fitting in a square hole. Read full review
50
Boston HeraldMark A. PerigardJan 3, 2017
Season 1 Review: Ransom needs some stirring. Ex-cop Zara Hallam (Nazneen Contractor, “Heroes Reborn”) rounds out the team, and she gets little to do in this hour, a crime one can only hope will be rectified in future episodes. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleDavid WiegandDec 30, 2016
Season 1 Review: "Ransom" is a perfectly adequate, by-the-numbers broadcast TV thriller. There are a lot of shows just like it, some better, some worse, and they help pay the bills for broadcast networks. Read full review
40
Reason.comGlenn GarvinJan 8, 2017
Season 1 Review: Mostly it's just an even more egregiously boring version of all the other CBS police procedurals with their cookie-cutter characters and plots. Read full review
40
The Hollywood ReporterDaniel FienbergDec 31, 2016
Season 1 Review: I never shook the feeling that I was watching something that, from cast to the overall aesthetic, we weren't meant to see on American network TV. Read full review
40
The New York TimesNeil GenzlingerDec 31, 2016
Season 1 Review: What is supposed to bring us back to this series is the prospect of regular doses of hostage-taking and hostage-saving, a sort of clickbait of TV plotting. Is there a bigger cliché in law enforcement television than the "put the gun down," "take your finger off the detonator," etc. standoff? Read full review
40
VarietyMaureen RyanDec 30, 2016
Season 1 Review: A "laundry folder" through and through. Read full review
40
Pittsburgh Post-GazetteRob OwenDec 30, 2016
Season 1 Review: A pedestrian procedural, "Ransom" follows the team at Crisis Resolution as they resolve kidnappings and hostage situations in the most rote, CBS fashion you can imagine. Read full review
30
CNNBrian LowryDec 31, 2016
Season 1 Review: It's pretty uninspired even by CBS procedural standards. Read full review
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