Selfie
ABC | Release Date: September 30, 2014
CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
57
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 24 Critic Reviews
Positive:
7
Mixed:
15
Negative:
2

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
91
Boston GlobeSarah RodmanSep 15, 2014
Season 1 Review: Both the title and the first few minutes ... nearly ruin what could turn out to be a charming show. ... Fortunately, the tone starts to shift, soften, and gain stronger comic footing. ... Additionally, almost all of the snarky skewering of the corporate environment of Henry and Eliza’s Big Pharma workplace radiates the same wonderfully acidic tone as Better Off Ted. Read full review
80
New York Daily NewsDavid HinckleySep 30, 2014
Season 1 Review: It's a charming dance, and Gillan and Cho play it with the proper froth. Read full review
75
The A.V. ClubBrandon NowalkSep 30, 2014
Season 1 Review: Already there’s a wistfulness underneath the light surface. Half the scenes in the pilot are rooted in sadness, and the other half are rooted in Eliza aggressively covering up for her sadness. Eliza may seem vapid, and Selfie may seem broad, but there’s more to this one than meets the eye. Read full review
75
San Francisco ChronicleDavid WiegandSep 24, 2014
Season 1 Review: It has real possibilities, but since the “My Fair Lady” climax is repurposed in the pilot, it’s unclear where the relationship will go. Read full review
70
Philadelphia Daily NewsEllen GraySep 30, 2014
Season 1 Review: The winner tonight is "Suburgatory" creator Emily Kapnek's "Pygmalion"-inspired Selfie, whose pairing of Gillan and Cho is also inspired. Read full review
70
RogerEbert.comBrian TallericoSep 29, 2014
Season 1 Review: The pilot of Selfie is imperfect but entertaining.... Gillan and Cho have solid chemistry, as any good Eliza and Henry need to have to make the transformation of both characters complete. Read full review
63
St. Louis Post-DispatchGail PenningtonOct 1, 2014
Season 1 Review: To see its potential, you'll have to grit your teeth through a lot of painful moments early on. Read full review
60
The Hollywood ReporterTim GoodmanSep 30, 2014
Season 1 Review: All of the obvious self-awareness jokes are glaring and irritating. But here’s the hope: Both Cho and Gillan are very likable actors and even manage to nail what is asked of them in the pilot, playing Eliza and Henry. Read full review
60
Los Angeles TimesRobert LloydSep 30, 2014
Season 1 Review: The show starts out annoying and then gets less annoying. ... I don't have great hopes for this, but I had expected it to burn the eyes from my head, and that is not at all the case. Read full review
60
The WrapJason HughesSep 30, 2014
Season 1 Review: By the end of its premiere, Selfie became a watchable show with actual potential. I'm just not sure most people will be able to hang in there that long to see it unfold. Read full review
58
Boston HeraldMark A. PerigardSep 30, 2014
Season 1 Review: ABC deserves credit for its diverse casting, but Selfie looks to have the longevity of the average Snapchat pic. Read full review
58
Uncle BarkyEd BarkSep 29, 2014
Season 1 Review: Their [Eliza and Henry's] odd couple liaison occasionally begins clicking from a humor standpoint. Read full review
50
The Daily BeastKevin FallonSep 30, 2014
Season 1 Review: When you suspend disbelief and watch Selfie through a prism where it’s a fantasy-world alternate reality, where people speak in self-aware, carefully crafted maxims and quotables, lines like this are actually really funny--exceptionally astute and observant about today’s culture. But if you look at Selfie as some sort of realistic meditation on a social media-obsessed, narcissistic generation--which it’s tempting to do, especially as some of Eliza’s self-serving transgressions hit closer to home than others--then you’ll likely find writing like this to be maddening. Read full review
50
New York Magazine (Vulture)Margaret LyonsSep 30, 2014
Season 1 Review: Selfie needs to be either a little more grounded or a little more campy depending on what it wants to highlight, but this in-between kinda-real-kinda-bubblegum world makes everyone seem slightly out of place. Read full review
50
PopMattersMichael LandweberSep 30, 2014
Season 1 Review: Maybe ABC’s social media strategy should include posting only the last scene of this episode and pretend the rest of it never happened. That, and changing the title. Read full review
50
USA TodayRobert BiancoSep 29, 2014
Season 1 Review: The premise still seems shaky, but the final few minutes may earn Selfie a second look. Read full review
50
Pittsburgh Post-GazetteRob OwenSep 29, 2014
Season 1 Review: A cute enough pilot from writer Emily Kapnek (“Suburgatory”). But is there really a weekly TV series to be had here? Time will tell. Read full review
50
Entertainment WeeklyHillary BusisSep 26, 2014
Season 1 Review: There could be a decent show trapped within Selfie.... Too bad the show's cruel sense of humor and reliance on instantly dated references may very well drive away viewers before they can see what Selfie and Eliza become. [3 Oct 2014, p.66]
50
Washington PostHank StueverSep 19, 2014
Season 1 Review: Selfie’s addiction to topical techie satire tends to get in the way of Gillan and Cho’s attempts to convey an unlikely chemistry that might help the show rise above a concept that already feels like yesterday’s clicks. Read full review
42
NewsdayVerne GaySep 29, 2014
Season 1 Review: There's some charm here, but it's as fleeting as a tweet. Read full review
42
HitfixAlan SepinwallSep 29, 2014
Season 1 Review: Eliza is such a broad caricature of everything Kapnek finds annoying about social media that she's unbearable--and not just to the other characters on the show.... The Selfie pilot offers glimmers of a show that can work. John Cho is very good: understated and wry and charming. Karen Gillan seems game for anything. Read full review
40
The Huffington PostMaureen RyanSep 30, 2014
Season 1 Review: Karen Gillan is a treasure, and it's only by dint of her presence that this comedy works some of the time. Yet in a larger sense, "Selfie" does not really work, because there are a lot of unpleasant and judgmental elements lurking in its premise. Read full review
30
TV Guide MagazineMatt RoushSep 30, 2014
Season 1 Review: The stars' charisma could help lift Selfie beyond its narrow premise, but at first glance, it seems too inconsequential even to qualify as an epic fail. Read full review
25
Newark Star-LedgerVicki HymanSep 30, 2014
Season 1 Review: There's the usual assortment of quirky neighbors/co-workers, none of whom register as more than caricatures in the pilot, and the social media buzzwords sprinkled with abandon throughout the pilot comes off as hashtag desperate.... Selfie is actively grating. Read full review
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