Rent (2019)
  • Network: FOX
  • Series Premiere Date: Jan 27, 2019
Metascore
49

Mixed or average reviews - based on 12 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 12
  2. Mixed: 6 out of 12
  3. Negative: 3 out of 12

Critic Reviews

  1. The A.V. Club
    Reviewed by: Caroline Siede
    Jan 28, 2019
    83
    Rent: Live To Tape did what these live musicals are supposed to do—reimagine a beloved musical with a new aesthetic, new performers, and new staging choices.
  2. Sioux City Journal
    Reviewed by: Bruce Miller
    Jan 28, 2019
    70
    The performances were solid and the in-your-face direction was what something like this needed. ... While Fox’s “RENT” was a bit too sanitized for its own good, it had the right people in the key roles, particularly Jordan Fisher, who, as Mark, served as the tour guide through the past, the heartache and, most of all, the brilliance of writer Jonathan Larson.
  3. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Darren Franich
    Jan 28, 2019
    67
    Lots to enjoy--and yet, there was something a bit remote about this Rent. The imaginative staging of the first act dwindled away until the writhing under the sheets during “Contact” was about as evocative as a CENSORED bar.