Secrets and Lies

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Season 1
  • Network: ABC
  • Series Premiere Date: Mar 1, 2015
Season #: 2, 1
User Score
7.6

Generally favorable reviews- based on 59 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 44 out of 59
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 59
  3. Negative: 11 out of 59
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  1. bocceguy
    Mar 8, 2015
    1
    Garbage.
    Insulting to the intellect of a first-grader.
    A painter without a drop of paint on his shirt, pants, arms, or hands. Incredibly neat. An expressionless detective. A robot could have played this character. Why set the table for dinner with daughters? They never finish a meal. 100% of the community judges the primary character guilty from the day he finds the body. Nice    Garbage.
    Insulting to the intellect of a first-grader.
    A painter without a drop of paint on his shirt, pants, arms, or hands. Incredibly neat.
    An expressionless detective. A robot could have played this character.
    Why set the table for dinner with daughters? They never finish a meal.
    100% of the community judges the primary character guilty from the day he finds the body. Nice place to live.
    Improbabilities and absurdities compound to make this production a joke.
    "Secrets and Lies" is TV's "Ishtar."    … Expand
  2. TVeyes
    Mar 5, 2015
    1
    This would be a decent show if it weren't for Juliette Lewis. She looks bad, her acting is bad. Ryan is really good. KaDee Strickler is great. Probably won't watch again.
  3. BogKid
    Mar 8, 2015
    2
    You know those "real crime" shows that cram 30 minutes of program into 120 minutes. Secrets and Lies seems to trying to cram 30 minutes into an entire season. I've watched three episodes now, trying to be fair, but I am just totally tired of watching Ryan Phillippe "acting", with extreme anger, upon every little impulse that enters his mind. I don't know where this story is going but IYou know those "real crime" shows that cram 30 minutes of program into 120 minutes. Secrets and Lies seems to trying to cram 30 minutes into an entire season. I've watched three episodes now, trying to be fair, but I am just totally tired of watching Ryan Phillippe "acting", with extreme anger, upon every little impulse that enters his mind. I don't know where this story is going but I have come to simply not care. It drags on and on with everyone acting like jerks. Only the automaton police detective remains consistent in her behavior. I don't know why Ryan hasn't taken a punch at her tiny little face yet but I figure that as the show stretches on and on that punch is probably lurking in the near future. I will miss it.… Expand
  4. 11111111
    Mar 22, 2015
    1
    The things happening on this show are so far outside of what regular people would do in this situation it's down right frustrating. The whole show is like a bad lifetime movie.
  5. SBMike1
    Mar 29, 2015
    0
    There isn't much good to say about this show. The characters all repel you from watching, the plot is predictable, and it's really just a poverty version of Broadchurch. Lewis has to be the worst actor on this show, as she just fails at her role as a whole. Not far behind is Phillippe which has to be the worst written character on TV right now, maybe the writers wanted him to look andThere isn't much good to say about this show. The characters all repel you from watching, the plot is predictable, and it's really just a poverty version of Broadchurch. Lewis has to be the worst actor on this show, as she just fails at her role as a whole. Not far behind is Phillippe which has to be the worst written character on TV right now, maybe the writers wanted him to look and act completely oblivious to everything. Overall, this may be the worst show of 2015.… Expand
  6. jenabell38
    Mar 31, 2015
    1
    Worst crime show with whom I thought to be two great actors, worst acting job I've ever seen, the best acting is from people I've never heard of before. By far Juliette Lewis and Ryan Phillipe's worst. I keep trying to like it but It's just not going to happen. Unbelievable!

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#67 Most Discussed TV Season of 2015

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Metascore
48

Mixed or average reviews - based on 22 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 22
  2. Mixed: 8 out of 22
  3. Negative: 7 out of 22
  1. The Lincoln Journal Star
    Reviewed by: Jeff Korbelik
    Mar 2, 2015
    16
    It’s poorly written with a bunch of things happening in the pilot that just don’t make sense.
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  2. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Mary McNamara
    Mar 2, 2015
    30
    Secrets and Lies suffers from an American tendency to speed up and overplay, to force emotion rather than evoke it. Just as suspicion takes a little time to grow and spread, so does sophistication. But this series seems to be in a very big hurry to be over, which almost guarantees that audiences will be too.
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  3. New York Magazine (Vulture)
    Reviewed by: Matt Zoller Seitz
    Mar 2, 2015
    20
    Ryan Phillippe does the blank thing well. Juliette Lewis, once American cinema's liveliest eccentric, is drained of life.... This show runs ten weeks. I'm out.
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