Sex, Love & Secrets

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Season 1
  • Network: UPN
  • Series Premiere Date: Sep 27, 2005
Metascore
41

Mixed or average reviews - based on 16 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 16
  2. Mixed: 6 out of 16
  3. Negative: 7 out of 16

Critic Reviews

  1. Boston Globe
    Reviewed by: Matthew Gilbert
    30
    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.
  2. Chicago Sun-Times
    Reviewed by: Doug Elfman
    63
    It's skank-errific, if flawed.
  3. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Alynda Wheat
    58
    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]
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  5. Kansas City Star
    Reviewed by: Aaron Barnhart
    40
    Not as terrible as most shows of this genre.
  6. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Paul Brownfield
    20
    Sadly, this show makes a mess of its neighborhood-centric premise.
  7. Miami Herald
    Reviewed by: Glenn Garvin
    50
    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.
  8. Newsday
    Reviewed by: Diane Werts
    60
    We haven't had a good dishy time-waster in awhile. Maybe this is it.
  9. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
    Reviewed by: Rob Owen
    70
    "Sex" proves to be a series with loads of appeal for viewers still mourning the cancellation of "Melrose Place."
  10. PopMatters
    Reviewed by: Shandy Casteel
    10
    We don't expect nighttime relationship dramas to be thrilling, but we have the right to expect an interesting character or two.
  11. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Tim Goodman
    0
    It's awful.
  12. Seattle Post-Intelligencer
    Reviewed by: Melanie McFarland
    10
    [A] stupid, stupid nighttime soap.
  13. The Hollywood Reporter
    Reviewed by: Ray Richmond
    40
    Check your brain at the door and you'll find a potential guilty pleasure lurking within.
  14. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Anita Gates
    30
    [A] vapid soap.
  15. USA Today
    Reviewed by: Robert Bianco
    38
    Incessantly chatty, incredibly busy and annoyingly pretentious.
  16. Variety
    Reviewed by: Phil Gallo
    70
    Has the potential to be a real guilty pleasure.
  17. Wall Street Journal
    Reviewed by: Nancy DeWolf Smith
    60
    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.

Awards & Rankings

57
#57 Best TV Season of 2005
44
#44 Most Discussed TV Season of 2005
38
#38 Most Shared TV Season of 2005

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User Score
8.1

Universal acclaim- based on 24 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 19 out of 24
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 24
  3. Negative: 4 out of 24
  1. KathyB.
    Sep 28, 2008
    5
    I loved it!
  2. KyleighH
    Feb 11, 2006
    0
    I don't even know why this show was on the UPN Fall Schedule to begin with. When I first read about this, one word came into my mind: I don't even know why this show was on the UPN Fall Schedule to begin with. When I first read about this, one word came into my mind: "cancelation." And guess what? It got canceled. I don't think UPN should bring this show back no matter how many viewers watched it. I give this show a big fat zero.… Full Review »
  3. breem
    Nov 10, 2005
    10
    I loved this show! Didn't say it was cancelled, just on "break". I need it back!
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