Shark Tank
ABC | Release Date: August 9, 2009
CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
60
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 12 Critic Reviews
Positive:
5
Mixed:
5
Negative:
2

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
83
Entertainment WeeklyDalton RossMar 22, 2011
Season 2 Review: Things are cookin' on the new season of Shark Tank, especially when someone comes in to pitch the merits of his big invention: Wake 'N Bacon. Read full review
83
Entertainment WeeklyJosh Wolk
Season 1 Review: The moneymen ask informed questions and make shrewd decisions, a welcome relief from Donald Trump's capricious calls on Burnett's "Celebrity Apprentice." Read full review
80
SalonHeather Havrilesky
Season 1 Review: ABC's Shark Tank is easily the best new reality TV show to air this summer (which, admittedly, isn't saying much). Read full review
70
Washington PostTom Shales
Season 1 Review: It sounds gimmicky and visually tedious, with most of the so-called action taking place in a conference room. It's all those things, but the moments of misery make it memorable. Read full review
63
New York PostMichael Starr
Season 1 Review: Mark Burnett's newest plunge into the reality waters--somewhat predictable, with all the requisite reality bells and whistles (lots of dark blue mood lighting, dramatic music, quick-cut editing)--is mildly entertaining in that summer TV kind of way. Read full review
60
The Hollywood Reporter
Season 1 Review: Brisk, sharp and surprisingly emotional for what essentially is a series of venture-capital-investment interviews, the show--based on the Japanese format "Dragons' Den"--balances the human element of its wish-fulfilling conceit with at least the illusion of the business legitimacy that made Burnett's "The Apprentice" such campy fun. Read full review
60
Los Angeles TimesRobert Lloyd
Season 1 Review: The cleverest part of the show is that it makes the judges into contestants; they compete against one another for the right to invest in a business, and they haggle with the entrepreneurs over the terms of their investment. Read full review
60
New York Daily NewsDavid Hinckley
Season 1 Review: Once you get past its somewhat misleading title, Mark Burnett's new Shark Tank is a well-paced hour that offers entertainment without humiliation. Read full review
50
Pittsburgh Post-GazetteRob Owen
Season 1 Review: Business buffs may love it, but Shark Tank lacks the lush visuals of "Survivor" and the star power of Trump. It just doesn't have the same bite. Read full review
40
VarietyBrian Lowry
Season 1 Review: So is Shark Tank cathartic, or merely depressing? Perhaps appropriately, it's a little of both. Read full review
30
Boston GlobeLaura Bennett
Season 1 Review: The show is like watching fish getting shot in a barrel. It offers up poor souls with harebrained schemes and makes merry sport of eviscerating them. Read full review
25
Chicago Sun-TimesPaige Wiser
Season 1 Review: There are so many things I hate about his new show, In the Shark Tank, that I started numbering them just to calm down. Where to start? Read full review
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