- Network: ABC
- Series Premiere Date: Sep 21, 2006
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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.
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The ABC show... is one of the pleasures of the new season, although it may strike some viewers as too conceptually loose to love.
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[The] pilot is cleverly written giving the characters a heady, just-specific-enough mix of mystery, intrigue and charm.
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It's a drama of chance with enough charm to roll the dice on.
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If the stories aren't entirely convincing, the actors are.
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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.
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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.
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The whole web would unravel if each character weren't so interesting all by his or her own lonesome self.
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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.
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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.)
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A reasonably competent soap.
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[It] so far boasts characters more intriguing than their interactions.
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No series following an easy delight like "Grey's Anatomy" should be this much of a downer.
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A pleasantly diverting bumper-car drama of chance encounters, new friendships and random triggers.
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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.
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Six Degrees certainly clips along, but moving quickly between insipid links and boring characters doesn't make them any less insipid or boring.
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The first episode doesn't measure up to the actors' capabilities, but there is a fantastic amount of promise.
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It's not compelling at all.
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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.
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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.
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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]
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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]
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A pretty bland romantic confection.
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A gimmick in search of a show.
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Tedious.
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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.
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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."
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 66 out of 74
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Mixed: 5 out of 74
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Negative: 3 out of 74
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SusanWAug 14, 2007
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heavent.Aug 8, 2007dead boring.
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lilys.Aug 4, 2007I think this is a great show. It is a shame that ABC is going to cancel it. I think the problem is that ABC didn't advertise it enough.