Revenge
ABC | Release Date: September 21, 2011
CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
67
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 28 Critic Reviews
Positive:
17
Mixed:
11
Negative:
0
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
60
SalonMatt Zoller SeitzSep 22, 2011
Season 1 Review: Revenge might sound enjoyably soapy in the abstract, but its execution is problematic. Read full review
60
Philadelphia Daily NewsEllen GraySep 21, 2011
Season 1 Review: Way over the top but potentially a guilty pleasure for those with the time to pursue it. Read full review
60
New York Daily NewsDavid HinckleySep 21, 2011
Season 1 Review: The show is asking viewers, then, to invest some time and not expect a clean resolution of some black-and-white drama each week. That's a gamble and a risk. Revenge seems confident it can be taken and won. Read full review
60
Pittsburgh Post-GazetteRob OwenSep 19, 2011
Season 1 Review: If Revenge can curb its more outlandish tendencies, this soap could become a welcome guilty pleasure. Read full review
60
VarietyBrian LowrySep 19, 2011
Season 1 Review: Even if there are traces of "Desperate Housewives" in "Revenge's" DNA, ABC's latest serial feels oh-so-last decade, which, particularly in the Hamptons, is about as thematically stylish as wearing white after Labor Day. Read full review
58
Boston HeraldMark A. PerigardSep 21, 2011
Season 1 Review: There are guilty pleasures and then there are ones for which you just feel guilty about sacrificing your valuable time. Revenge is the latter. Read full review
58
Uncle BarkyEd BarkSep 20, 2011
Season 1 Review: Sometimes you just want a single serving, with the table cleared by episode's end. This one keeps passing its spinning plates while re-stating the obvious. Read full review
50
The Huffington PostMaureen RyanSep 21, 2011
Season 1 Review: It seems like it could be a fun, if cheesy, soap opera about skulduggery and backstabbing in high society. But Revenge makes the fatal mistakes of wanting to be taken seriously and yet not making its characters worthy of any kind of serious consideration. Read full review
50
Los Angeles TimesRobert LloydSep 21, 2011
Season 1 Review: As is often the case with melodrama, I find Revenge essentially unconvincing and also quite likable. Read full review
40
PopMattersBrent McKnightSep 21, 2011
Season 1 Review: The story is silly, but not trashy enough to make it your latest guilty pleasure. Read full review
40
TV Guide MagazineMatt RoushSep 21, 2011
Season 1 Review: Some are embracing this as a juicy guilty pleasure, a return to Dynasty times by way of The Count of Monte Cristo. I found it all a bit predictable and thick, like I was choking on Crisco. Read full review
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