Sex, Love & Secrets
UPN | Release Date: September 27, 2005
CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
41
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 16 Critic Reviews
Positive:
3
Mixed:
6
Negative:
7

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
70
Pittsburgh Post-GazetteRob Owen
Season 1 Review: "Sex" proves to be a series with loads of appeal for viewers still mourning the cancellation of "Melrose Place." Read full review
70
VarietyPhil Gallo
Season 1 Review: Has the potential to be a real guilty pleasure. Read full review
63
Chicago Sun-TimesDoug Elfman
Season 1 Review: It's skank-errific, if flawed. Read full review
60
NewsdayDiane Werts
Season 1 Review: We haven't had a good dishy time-waster in awhile. Maybe this is it. Read full review
60
Wall Street JournalNancy DeWolf Smith
Season 1 Review: You don't have to be under 30 to enjoy this. It's no more, or less, ridiculous than ABC's massively-hyped hit about sex, love and secrets among housewives and other oldsters. Read full review
58
Entertainment WeeklyAlynda Wheat
Season 1 Review: It's best to ignore the attempts at deep thought, enjoy the pretty cast, and guzzle it like diet pop. [30 Sep 2005, p.87]
50
Miami HeraldGlenn Garvin
Season 1 Review: Nobody is quite what they seem in this show, and watching the layers of deception and falsity peel away is its main attraction. Of course, at some point, there better turn out to be something underneath. Read full review
40
The Hollywood ReporterRay Richmond
Season 1 Review: Check your brain at the door and you'll find a potential guilty pleasure lurking within. Read full review
40
Kansas City StarAaron Barnhart
Season 1 Review: Not as terrible as most shows of this genre. Read full review
38
USA TodayRobert Bianco
Season 1 Review: Incessantly chatty, incredibly busy and annoyingly pretentious. Read full review
30
Boston GlobeMatthew Gilbert
Season 1 Review: If the writers and actors were willing to get a little campy, if they lifted the group's obnoxiousness factor over the top, the show might have some entertainment value. But as it stands, it's an hour spent watching dull, pretty people work very hard to be hipper than one another, as well as hipper than you. Read full review
30
The New York TimesAnita Gates
Season 1 Review: [A] vapid soap. Read full review
20
Los Angeles TimesPaul Brownfield
Season 1 Review: Sadly, this show makes a mess of its neighborhood-centric premise. Read full review
10
Seattle Post-IntelligencerMelanie McFarland
Season 1 Review: [A] stupid, stupid nighttime soap. Read full review
10
PopMattersShandy Casteel
Season 1 Review: We don't expect nighttime relationship dramas to be thrilling, but we have the right to expect an interesting character or two. Read full review
0
San Francisco ChronicleTim Goodman
Season 1 Review: It's awful. Read full review
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