Six Degrees
ABC | Release Date: September 21, 2006
CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
54
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 27 Critic Reviews
Positive:
9
Mixed:
10
Negative:
8
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
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New York PostAdam Buckman
Season 1 Review: It is no small feat to pull off the trick of interweaving so many characters and storylines, but the producers of "Six Degrees"... have accomplished it with admirable smoothness for a series that is just getting under way. Read full review
80
Boston GlobeMatthew Gilbert
Season 1 Review: The ABC show... is one of the pleasures of the new season, although it may strike some viewers as too conceptually loose to love. Read full review
70
VarietyPhil Gallo
Season 1 Review: [The] pilot is cleverly written giving the characters a heady, just-specific-enough mix of mystery, intrigue and charm. Read full review
70
TimeJames Poniewozik
Season 1 Review: It's a drama of chance with enough charm to roll the dice on. Read full review
70
The Hollywood ReporterBarry Garron
Season 1 Review: If the stories aren't entirely convincing, the actors are. Read full review
70
Chicago TribuneMaureen Ryan
Season 1 Review: It’s a slender conceit for a television show but also a novel one. And the romantic sense of yearning that infuses “Six Degrees” is refreshing in a TV schedule full of corpses and cops. Read full review
70
Miami HeraldGlenn Garvin
Season 1 Review: Six Degrees starts off almost as an anthology series, with six stories set in six different worlds, each one quite interesting. But as their orbits draw closer, interest rapidly morphs into fascination. Read full review
70
Philadelphia InquirerJonathan Storm
Season 1 Review: The whole web would unravel if each character weren't so interesting all by his or her own lonesome self. Read full review
70
The New York TimesVirginia Heffernan
Season 1 Review: But the particular stories are not what “Six Degrees” is ultimately about. Instead the show’s forte, for viewers like me who don’t mind piety on television, is its ambience of faith. Read full review
60
Los Angeles TimesRobert Lloyd
Season 1 Review: New York also offers the gift of its locations, which are used abundantly and give the show a sense of reality its script does not always earn. (The actors take up the rest of the slack.) Read full review
60
NewsdayVerne Gay
Season 1 Review: A reasonably competent soap. Read full review
60
Philadelphia Daily NewsEllen Gray
Season 1 Review: [It] so far boasts characters more intriguing than their interactions. Read full review
60
Seattle Post-IntelligencerMelanie McFarland
Season 1 Review: No series following an easy delight like "Grey's Anatomy" should be this much of a downer. Read full review
60
L.A. WeeklyRobert Abele
Season 1 Review: A pleasantly diverting bumper-car drama of chance encounters, new friendships and random triggers. Read full review
50
Pittsburgh Post-GazetteRob Owen
Season 1 Review: The concept is unique, the performances solid or better, but when so many similar shows are competing for attention from viewers who are only willing to commit so much time to watching ongoing TV series, "Six Degrees" just isn't good enough. Read full review
50
USA TodayRobert Bianco
Season 1 Review: Six Degrees certainly clips along, but moving quickly between insipid links and boring characters doesn't make them any less insipid or boring. Read full review
50
Chicago Sun-TimesDoug Elfman
Season 1 Review: The first episode doesn't measure up to the actors' capabilities, but there is a fantastic amount of promise. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleTim Goodman
Season 1 Review: It's not compelling at all. Read full review
50
San Jose Mercury News/Contra Costa TimesCharlie McCollum
Season 1 Review: It's an intriguing premise but one that comes off a bit strained in the opening hour and leaves you with the feeling that you have no idea where the show is going. Read full review
38
New York Daily NewsDavid Hinckley
Season 1 Review: In theory, it's an intriguing concept for a series. But in practice, "Six Degrees" doesn't work at all in drawing you in at the start. Read full review
38
People WeeklyTom Gliatto
Season 1 Review: The show's a letdown, especially since it comes with one of the most lovingly assembled casts of any series. [9 Oct 2006, p.41]
33
Entertainment WeeklyDalton Ross
Season 1 Review: Six Degrees fancies itself as clever but is really little more than a one-trick pony. Even worse, that trick pony is pretty damn lame. [22 Sep 2006, p.89]
30
Detroit Free PressMike Duffy
Season 1 Review: A pretty bland romantic confection. Read full review
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Newark Star-LedgerAlan Sepinwall
Season 1 Review: A gimmick in search of a show. Read full review
30
New York Magazine (Vulture)John Leonard
Season 1 Review: Tedious. Read full review
30
The New YorkerTad Friend
Season 1 Review: The show is laced with wit and blessed with fine actors... Yet the coincidences that bring the show’s six wayfarers together to form their own little island on the big island are vexingly hokey. Read full review
20
Washington PostTom Shales
Season 1 Review: It's lame and it's limp, and as deployed for "Six Degrees," the conceit would seem to owe quite a bit to the movie "Crash," among such other more antique inspirations as "The Bridge of San Luis Rey." Read full review
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