Salvation (2017)
CBS | Release Date: July 12, 2017
CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
48
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 18 Critic Reviews
Positive:
2
Mixed:
12
Negative:
4

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
80
The Huffington PostDavid HinckleyJul 18, 2017
Season 1 Review: Happily, in spite of the plot labyrinth that any conspiracy theory naturally creates, Salvation keeps its story understandable and makes us keep wanting to know what happens next. Read full review
67
Colorado Springs GazetteTerry TerronesJul 10, 2017
Season 1 Review: A lot of moving parts and conspiracies in Salvation keep things interesting, if slightly confusing. Read full review
60
The Salt Lake TribuneScott D. PierceJul 12, 2017
Season 1 Review: A summer series that begins pretty much just as you'd expect, but it seems to be relatively well done. The first couple of hours are OK, at least. Read full review
58
Uncle BarkyEd BarkJul 12, 2017
Season 1 Review: The initial two hours move along at a fairly crisp pace, complete with skulking and several close calls but next to nothing spent on special effects. Read full review
58
Boston HeraldMark A. PerigardJul 10, 2017
Season 1 Review: The conspiracy element is easily the weakest part of the show and seems present only to drum up some modicum of suspense. The tech babble, however, is a delightful callback to “Star Trek: The Next Generation. Read full review
50
Pittsburgh Post-GazetteRob OwenJul 25, 2017
Season 1 Review: After so many series have failed to come to satisfying first-season conclusions after similar built-in obsolescence plots, it’s hard to trust Salvation will live up to its title. If it does, what will producers do for season two? Read full review
50
USA TodayKelly LawlerJul 11, 2017
Season 1 Review: Salvation is one of those series where what you see is exactly what you get, so for viewers seeking unchallenging thrills, it works. The world may be ending, but at least it’s doing so in a comfortingly familiar way. And that feels fine. Read full review
50
Washington PostHank StueverJul 11, 2017
Season 1 Review: You don’t need a genius to tell you it’s made entirely of cheese. Still, it can be somewhat diverting to watch Salvation’s heroes and villains try to divert doomsday. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleDavid WiegandJul 10, 2017
Season 1 Review: CBS made two episodes available for review, and while they aren’t especially memorable, they are no doubt what the network intended them to be: mindlessly entertaining in a kind of fair-to-middlin’ way. Read full review
50
The Lincoln Journal StarJeff KorbelikJul 10, 2017
Season 1 Review: The pilot had more holes than a piece of Swiss cheese. Read full review
50
Cleveland Plain DealerMark DawidziakJul 7, 2017
Season 1 Review: The cast, which includes Jennifer Finnigan as Pentagon public-relations honcho Grace Barrows, is extremely likable, and the first two episodes roll along at a breezy clip. So, by all means, don't ask too many questions and don't expect too much. Read full review
50
TV Guide MagazineMatt RoushJul 6, 2017
Season 1 Review: I'm keeping an open mind about the extinction-event melodrama of Salvation, which plays it very straight. [10-23 Jul 2017, p.13]
40
SalonMelanie McFarlandJul 12, 2017
Season 1 Review: You’d be better off catching up with any number of superior series or films available right now. Life and summer are simply too short to waste on cut-rate visions of doom. Read full review
40
The Hollywood ReporterTim GoodmanJul 11, 2017
Season 1 Review: Salvation is a summertime network drama that's not asking anything of you but to give up an hour of your time and lose it forever. In return you get a low-grade familiar sensation that means nothing but dulls your life a little bit. Read full review
30
New York Magazine (Vulture)Matt Zoller SeitzJul 13, 2017
Season 1 Review: There isn’t a single memorable performance anywhere in Salvation, although, to be fair to the cast, with a script this perfunctory, escaping with one’s dignity intact is job no. 1 anyway. There is no direction to speak of, just shots of people saying lines, all cut together as chaotically as possible. Read full review
30
VarietyLaToya FergusonJul 12, 2017
Season 1 Review: Salvation has an interesting story somewhere deep down--and a cast that’s mostly capable--but it doesn’t care to tell it. Read full review
30
Reason.comGlenn GarvinJul 8, 2017
Season 1 Review: In short, Salvation strongly resembles recent congressional budget debates, punctuated by occasional kidnappings, car chases and gunplay by an unidentified gang of thugs that apparently wants the world to end. Finally, the Nihilism Lobby gets its own show. Read full review
20
Yahoo TVKen TuckerJul 12, 2017
Season 1 Review: In truth, the bi-ped hamsters of Big Brother offer a more realistic view of humanity than this unbelievable new disaster-drama series. Read full review
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