Secret Millionaire
ABC | FOX | Release Date: December 3, 2008
CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
50
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 6 Critic Reviews
Positive:
1
Mixed:
5
Negative:
0

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
75
Uncle BarkyEd BarkMar 4, 2011
Season 2 Review: A show that can make you feel this way can't be all bad. Even if its clandestine millionaires can be more than a little grating. Read full review
50
New York PostLinda StasiMar 4, 2011
Season 2 Review: There's something secretly skeevy about self-made, self- promoting millionaires being given an hour-long, personal infomercial for doing what should be done in private--giving money to charity. Read full review
50
VarietyBrian LowryMar 4, 2011
Season 2 Review: What Secret Millionaire has no time to explore, conveniently, are the causes of poverty or any larger issues. It is, essentially, all about creating a cathartic experience, where the millionaire's checks affix band-aids to everything from soup kitchens to kidney-dialysis patients. Read full review
42
Entertainment WeeklyDarren FranichMay 30, 2012
Season 3 Review: By focusing on their [millionaire's] catharsis, the show suggests that lifestyle tourism counts as heroism. Read full review
42
Entertainment WeeklyChristian BlauveltMar 4, 2011
Season 2 Review: A celebration of wealth's redemptive power, it's less O. Henry than "Oh, brother!" Read full review
40
Washington PostHank StueverMar 7, 2011
Season 2 Review: Both "Restaurant" and Millionaire stir similar pots of self-pride, entrepreneurship and the psychic reward of sharing one's good fortune. But because the medium is television--reality television--each show collapses under the pressure of showing off its sense of nobility and higher purpose. Read full review
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