The Beast

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Season 1
  • Network: A&E
  • Series Premiere Date: Jan 15, 2009
Metascore
51

Mixed or average reviews - based on 25 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 25
  2. Mixed: 14 out of 25
  3. Negative: 5 out of 25
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Critic Reviews

  1. USA Today
    Reviewed by: Robert Bianco
    37
    Clearly, the show is aiming for urban grit. But that's hard to achieve when you're constantly distracting us with a ludicrous plot.
  2. Kansas City Star
    Reviewed by: Aaron Barnhart
    30
    I have now watched two episodes of the new A&E series The Beast, and I am filled with questions. How many brain cells did I lose watching two episodes of The Beast?
  3. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Tom Shales
    30
    Swayze seems to be taking Charlie Barker seriously, and Charlie's not worth it; he's just another in TV's increasingly populous community of bellicose antiheroes, supposedly macho loners who throw away the book and operate according to their own primal codes of behavior.
  5. Salon
    Reviewed by: Heather Havrilesky
    30
    This spot-on parody of a procedural drama will have viewers rolling on the floor laughing in no time, from its wildly unrealistic plotlines to the self-serious, melodramatic dialogue that spews forth from the stars' mouths at every turn.
  6. Miami Herald
    Reviewed by: Glenn Garvin
    10
    The Beast is singularly unimaginative, a collection of set-pieces barely bound together by a narrative thread, substituting attitude for substance and coyness for coherence.