Satisfaction (2014)
USA | Release Date: July 17, 2014
CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
63
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 19 Critic Reviews
Positive:
10
Mixed:
8
Negative:
1
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
60
The New York TimesAlessandra StanleyJul 16, 2014
Season 1 Review: Satisfaction is the most daring, because it’s not really a comedy, and that makes its intent oblique and quasi-European.... The series picks up as it moves away from the couple’s problems and into the complications Neil’s new career creates. Read full review
60
New York Daily NewsDavid HinckleyJul 15, 2014
Season 1 Review: As drama, that new direction is interesting and may be darkly honest. It’s just unsettling, which will take some adjustment for viewers of a network that has rarely gone there. Read full review
58
Boston HeraldMark A. PerigardJul 17, 2014
Season 1 Review: Satisfaction has the most provocative premise--until about halfway through when it doesn’t just go off the rails, it careens into the ocean, swims for England, sits for afternoon tea and then flings itself into the moon. Read full review
50
New York Magazine (Vulture)Matt Zoller SeitzJul 17, 2014
Season 1 Review: For every tired element, there are lovely, even mysterious touches.... Emotionally, I'm not sure that a lot of Satisfaction makes sense at all, but a certain strain of dream logic holds it together. Read full review
50
Philadelphia Daily NewsEllen GrayJul 17, 2014
Season 1 Review: Passmore's interesting to watch, but the characters are frustrating in their refusal to acknowledge that their obstacles are far from insurmountable. Read full review
50
USA TodayRobert BiancoJul 16, 2014
Season 1 Review: Passmore and Szostak give fine performances, and many viewers will no doubt appreciate having a drama that's designed to reflect modern life, without a crime or a medical crisis as a catalyst. They just might appreciate it more if it were a bit less grim and if the big plot twists felt a lot more organic. Read full review
50
TimeJames PoniewozikJul 16, 2014
Season 1 Review: What the network is positioning Satisfaction as, and what it feels like it should be, is a morally complex story of two people experimenting with what makes them happy, the TV equivalent of a ‘70s adult-relationship movie. And for maybe a half-hour, the pilot feels like that.... And the back half of Satisfaction‘s premiere seems to lose its nerve. Read full review
40
HitfixAlan SepinwallJul 17, 2014
Season 1 Review: Passmore's too bland to pull off the many dynamic emotional shifts Neil goes through, and the whole thing feels shapeless, providing little idea of how the series functions going forward. Read full review
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