Stylista

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Season 1
Metascore
58

Mixed or average reviews - based on 15 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 15
  2. Mixed: 6 out of 15
  3. Negative: 2 out of 15

Critic Reviews

  1. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Robert Lloyd
    60
    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.
  2. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: David Hinckley
    60
    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.
  3. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Tom Shales
    60
    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.
  5. Variety
    Reviewed by: Brian Lowry
    50
    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.
  6. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Jessica Shaw
    42
    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."
  7. Boston Globe
    Reviewed by: Joanna Weiss
    40
    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.