Stylista
The CW | CW | Release Date: October 22, 2008
CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
58
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 15 Critic Reviews
Positive:
7
Mixed:
6
Negative:
2

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
75
Chicago TribuneMaureen Ryan
Season 1 Review: Still, like the second season of “Tim Gunn’s Guide to Style,” which is airing now on Bravo, this show may work for you if you’re looking for a turn-off-your-brain escape. Read full review
75
New York PostLinda Stasi
Season 1 Review: The show is a lot of fun. Like playing dress-up when you were a kid--and about as realistic. Read full review
70
Philadelphia Daily NewsEllen Gray
Season 1 Review: Stylista, which injects drama into the simple act of getting breakfast for the boss, offers other small surprises, but it's not without its icky moments. Read full review
70
Pittsburgh Post-GazetteRob Owen
Season 1 Review: Stylista is a guilty pleasure thanks to its cast of catfighting, bickering characters, including one who is hospitalized following a panic attack in episode two. Read full review
70
SlateTroy Patterson
Season 1 Review: Viewers of a particular sensibility--that is, mine--will find themselves unwholesomely engaged by the tone Stylista brings to scenes about laying out sidebars and rethinking silly hats. Read full review
70
The New York TimesGinia Bellafante
Season 1 Review: Stylista, which begins on Wednesday on CW, is selling itself as “The Devil Wears Prada” in reality-television form. But it may even surpass its predecessor as a treatise on the empty ambition and distaste for civility that girds so much of Seventh Avenue. Read full review
67
NewsdayVerne Gay
Season 1 Review: I do know something about TV shows, and this one works best when Anne Slowey is on camera (which is not nearly enough) and the program focuses on clothing - that great, exasperating, endlessly complicated art form known as "fashion." Read full review
60
Los Angeles TimesRobert Lloyd
Season 1 Review: Except in the decorative details, it is exactly the same as every other gimme-a-job reality show ever made, with the contestants all banged up in a fancy dormitory from which they disappear one by one after themed weekly challenges. Read full review
60
New York Daily NewsDavid Hinckley
Season 1 Review: A competition to find a junior editor for Elle magazine, where Slowey is fashion news editor, differs from a two-hour drama in enough ways so the TV show doesn't have quite the same charm. It's fun. Just not as much. Read full review
60
Washington PostTom Shales
Season 1 Review: Stylista is--what is the phrase?--like a little tick that you want to flick off, but it's no worse than other reality games that have come before and will come after. Read full review
50
VarietyBrian Lowry
Season 1 Review: Throw a bouquet, then, strictly to the casting folks for the assortment of types they've assembled. Beyond that, Stylista qualifies as fierce, to borrow producer Tyra Banks' phraseology, only in its steadfast commitment to copying the same old models. Read full review
42
Entertainment WeeklyJessica Shaw
Season 1 Review: Sorry, Elle fashion-news director Anne Slowey, you're no Miranda Priestly, and this reality competition, which awards a junior editorship at her magazine, is no "Apprentice." Read full review
40
Boston GlobeJoanna Weiss
Season 1 Review: The contestants are full-blown neurotics, and neophytes to boot: They're so young, inexperienced, and catty that they're difficult to like and even harder to watch. Read full review
30
Miami HeraldGlenn Garvin
Season 1 Review: Its essential shallowness is on display from the very start, when 11 contestants for a junior editor's job at the fashion magazine Elle are issued their first challenge: Bring the boss breakfast. Read full review
25
USA TodayRobert Bianco
Season 1 Review: Gratuitously cruel and mind-numbingly dull, Stylista pretends to be "fashion forward" while it apes everything that has gone before. Read full review
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