State of Affairs
NBC | Release Date: November 17, 2014
CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
43
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 28 Critic Reviews
Positive:
2
Mixed:
17
Negative:
9
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
37
USA TodayRobert BiancoNov 17, 2014
Season 1 Review: The episode being aired tonight is slightly better than the original pilot, which does mean the producers realized work needed to be done. They just haven't done nearly enough. An altered State, true, but a sorry one, still. Read full review
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RogerEbert.comBrian TallericoNov 17, 2014
Season 1 Review: Cluttered and implausible, the series premiere of NBC’s State of Affairs, hints at the show that could be engaging underneath the poor filmmaking and even more frustrating writing and performances. Read full review
30
TV Guide MagazineMatt RoushNov 17, 2014
Season 1 Review: NBC's disappointingly derivative State of Affairs [is] a clumsy and unconvincing star vehicle for a miscast Katherine Heigl. Read full review
30
Wall Street JournalDorothy RabinowitzNov 17, 2014
Season 1 Review: Though Ms. Heigl does throw herself into those life-or-death presidential briefing decisions of hers--powers that could have been conceived only in the fantasies of desperate scriptwriters. They have much to be desperate about. Read full review
30
The WrapDiane GarrettNov 17, 2014
Season 1 Review: The writing does no one any favors, failing even to make the most of Alfre Woodard as president. Read full review
30
The Hollywood ReporterTim GoodmanNov 14, 2014
Season 1 Review: A pilot that is, at best, flawed, and, at worst, messy-bad. Read full review
30
Pittsburgh Post-GazetteRob OwenNov 13, 2014
Season 1 Review: Everything about it feels TV-fake and contrived and throwing Heigl into the mix just heightens the sense that viewers are watching a high-glam actress pretending to be a top U.S. intelligence analyst. Read full review
25
San Francisco ChronicleDavid WiegandNov 12, 2014
Season 1 Review: You’ve seen it all before, done better at times, worse at others, and the presence of Heigl isn’t enough to make State of Affairs anything more than just another second-rate wannabe. Read full review
20
Cleveland Plain DealerMark DawidziakNov 17, 2014
Season 1 Review: This incredibly trite and preposterous series are serious about all the hackneyed twaddle lumbering and stumbling into view Monday night. Just when you think it can't get more laughably bad, it does. Read full review
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