The Beautiful Life

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Season 1
Metascore
40

Mixed or average reviews - based on 13 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 13
  2. Mixed: 7 out of 13
  3. Negative: 4 out of 13

Critic Reviews

  1. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Robert Lloyd
    60
    The series is not so different from, or significantly worse--or better--than the network's other two season premieres, "Melrose Place" and "The Vampire Diaries," which also affix stock characters, played mostly by good-looking young folk, to standard plot lines sexed up with pop songs and different flavors of visual glamour. Because they do not aim particularly high, they pretty much hit what they aim at.
  2. USA Today
    Reviewed by: Robert Bianco
    50
    It may lack Melrose Place's flashy production values and trashy pedigree, but it makes up for that by being marginally better written, though admittedly, we're not talking about a particularly high bar here.
  3. The Hollywood Reporter
    Reviewed by: Randee Dawn
    40
    For all its well-designed moves, TBL is made of some pretty chintzy material.
  5. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: David Hinckley
    40
    The Beautiful Life is designed to fit alongside CW anchors like "90210," except that even by those standards, it's pretty predictable and stilted.
  6. Variety
    Reviewed by: Brian Lowry
    40
    The cast and writing (the showrunner is Mike Kelley, coming off CBS' vastly superior "Swingtown") are efficient enough, but nothing really pops--other than perhaps the desire to run out and eat a nice, heavy, carbo-laden meal.
  7. Boston Globe
    Reviewed by: Matthew Gilbert
    40
    The pilot is clearly half-baked. Whether that’s due to Barton or deeper creative problems is unclear.
  8. Philadelphia Daily News
    Reviewed by: Ellen Gray
    40
    A model-thin depiction of the glamorous and not-so-glamorous lives of fashion mannequins that was co-created by Ashton Kutcher.

Awards & Rankings

70
#70 Most Discussed TV Season of 2009

User Reviews

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User Score
5.1

Mixed or average reviews- based on 24 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 13 out of 24
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 24
  3. Negative: 11 out of 24
  1. Daniel
    Dec 22, 2009
    10
    This show is very well put together. It obviously failed due to poor advertisement and not because there was anything wrong with it.
  2. ReneeS.
    Dec 22, 2009
    10
    Come on People... Critics are so old seriously. Should CW care what the critics say who look for absolute perfection or the rest of the world Come on People... Critics are so old seriously. Should CW care what the critics say who look for absolute perfection or the rest of the world who actually enjoy it.… Full Review »
  3. Shays
    Oct 2, 2009
    0
    Well here are some sad news... This show got canceled after ONLY 2 EPISODES... the good news... One Three Hill is next .
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