Saving Hope
NBC | CTV | Release Date: June 7, 2012
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49
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Mixed or average reviews based on 16 Critic Reviews
Positive:
3
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12
Negative:
1
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
83
NewsdayVerne GayJun 1, 2012
Season 1 Review: A sober, intelligent, placidly paced drama as only the Canadians can make. Read full review
67
Uncle BarkyEd BarkJun 7, 2012
Season 1 Review: Its characters are comparatively compelling even when they're falling a little short. Read full review
63
Chicago Sun-TimesLori RacklJun 6, 2012
Season 1 Review: This "Ghost"-meets-"A Gifted Man"-meets-"Grey's Anatomy" has some fun, clever and emotion-stirring moments, but they're handicapped by cheesy montages and one too many scenarios designed to remind us of the importance of having hope. Read full review
58
Entertainment WeeklyRob BrunnerJun 4, 2012
Season 1 Review: Grey's Anatomy meets Ghost in this soppy supernatural hospital drama. Read full review
50
St. Louis Post-DispatchGail PenningtonAug 27, 2012
Season 1 Review: Saving Hope is pretty easy to watch, despite its abundant potential for eye-rolling. Read full review
50
Philadelphia Daily NewsEllen GrayJun 7, 2012
Season 1 Review: NBC's Saving Hope, another of those Canadian imports with which frugal networks pad out their summer schedules, plays like a very special episode of Grey's. Read full review
50
Philadelphia InquirerDavid HiltbrandJun 7, 2012
Season 1 Review: The emotional elements are a little overbaked, the spiritual aspects decidedly undercooked. But as short-term entertainment, this could fit the bill quite nicely. Read full review
50
The New York TimesMike HaleJun 6, 2012
Season 1 Review: The medical scenes are competent but forgettable, while the scenes of Charlie's peregrinations are sometimes interesting and funny but surprisingly infrequent. Read full review
50
HitfixAlan SepinwallJun 6, 2012
Season 1 Review: It's not bad so much as tired: sexual tension between doctors, mysterious ailments that are diagnosed at the last possible second, even the hoary old cliché about the patient who needs life-saving surgery that their religious beliefs forbid. Read full review
50
VarietyGeoff BerkshireJun 6, 2012
Season 1 Review: Aside from what's happening with Charlie, the rest of Hope plays like a stock hospital-set soap. Read full review
42
Boston HeraldMark A. PerigardJun 7, 2012
Season 1 Review: [Smallville's Erica Durance, Stargate SG-1's Michael Shanks and The Vampire Diaries' Daniel Gillies] should be a winning cast, but the writing and plodding execution are worthy of a quick DNR order. Read full review
40
New York Daily NewsDavid HinckleyJun 7, 2012
Season 1 Review: While everyone here executes their roles well, Saving Hope never feels very gripping. Read full review
40
Los Angeles TimesMary McNamaraJun 7, 2012
Season 1 Review: Unlike "Awake," however, Saving Hope does not have Jason Isaacs, a nifty crisscrossing police procedural at its heart, or anything interesting to say about the various forms of reality. Read full review
40
TV Guide MagazineMatt RoushJun 7, 2012
Season 1 Review: In other words, another uneasy mix of the spiritual and the medical. Read full review
40
Pittsburgh Post-GazetteRob OwenJun 6, 2012
Season 1 Review: As far as medical stories go, there's not much in Saving Hope viewers haven't seen before (and better) elsewhere, including on "Grey's Anatomy." Read full review
25
San Francisco ChronicleDavid WiegandJun 6, 2012
Season 1 Review: The sloppy sentimentality is cheap and unearned, greasy camera lenses notwithstanding. Read full review
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