Save Me
NBC | Release Date: May 23, 2013
CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
43
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 13 Critic Reviews
Positive:
2
Mixed:
6
Negative:
5
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
75
NewsdayDiane WertsMay 21, 2013
Season 1 Review: The Save Me pilot saves itself artistically. But debuting in a summertime double dose makes series salvation improbable. Read full review
70
Wall Street JournalDorothy RabinowitzMay 17, 2013
Season 1 Review: Ms. Heche's Beth is just madly menacing enough to keep things interesting. Read full review
58
Entertainment WeeklyJeff JensenMay 17, 2013
Season 1 Review: Save Me really wants to be is a sly, prickly black comedy, not the broad, feel-good yukker that it tries to be for most of the pilot--an approach that actually yields few laughs. [24 May 2013, p.77] Read full review
50
The New York TimesNeil GenzlingerMay 22, 2013
Season 1 Review: It might not even be around long enough to develop a consistent tone or viewpoint, both of which are lacking in the pilot. But it has a pretty good actress, Anne Heche ("Hung"), at the head of the cast, and it at least tries to add a touch of levity to what has always been a ponderously serious genre. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleDavid WiegandMay 21, 2013
Season 1 Review: There are definite comic possibilities in a character who has God on internal speed-dial, but the premiere episode is too overstuffed to give us a sense of whether the writers are going to be able to make the setup work beyond the few funny but obvious lines in the first show. Read full review
42
HitfixAlan SepinwallMay 22, 2013
Season 1 Review: Based on the pilot (which, again, may not represent what the show looked like once Hunt took over), it's an unpleasant series full of hostile caricatures in need of fixing by Beth's heaven-sent advice. Read full review
40
Philadelphia Daily NewsEllen GrayMay 23, 2013
Season 1 Review: Tonally, Save Me, with its slightly muddled message about redemption (which in at least one case involves another character's rediscovery of oral sex), doesn't seem to fit with whatever it was that NBC was trying to do with its new sitcoms this season. Read full review
40
Pittsburgh Post-GazetteRob OwenMay 23, 2013
Season 1 Review: It almost feels like a weird, little indie film if indie films were somewhat flat and predictable. Read full review
30
TV Guide MagazineMatt RoushMay 23, 2013
Season 1 Review: This shrill parable of redemption, being burned off in back-to-back episodes, is like a spiritual Enlightened for the tone deaf. Read full review
30
Boston GlobeMatthew GilbertMay 22, 2013
Season 1 Review: "Enlightened" with Laura Dern covered some of the same territory with sensitivity and honesty. Save Me, in the premiere, turns this subtle idea into a romp devoid of charm. Read full review
25
Uncle BarkyEd BarkMay 23, 2013
Season 1 Review: Sometimes they’re [TV networks are] still smart enough to know when they have a stinker. Read full review
25
People WeeklyTom GliattoMay 16, 2013
Season 1 Review: Consider it dead on arrival. [27 May 2013, p.40]
20
New York Daily NewsDavid HinckleyMay 23, 2013
Season 1 Review: Heche, a strong comic actress, can’t fully conquer the material here, and while the rest of the cast tries hard, there isn’t much with which to get traction. Read full review
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