The Bedford Diaries
WB | The WB | TWB | Release Date: March 29, 2006
CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
33
METASCORE
Generally unfavorable reviews based on 21 Critic Reviews
Positive:
4
Mixed:
3
Negative:
14

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
38
People WeeklyTom Gliatto
Season 1 Review: As an ensemble they are, like their teacher, attractive but not very exciting. [10 Apr 2006, p.35]
30
Orlando SentinelHal Boedeker
Season 1 Review: The setup produces neither juicy soap opera nor original, searing drama. The Bedford Diaries is a limp noodle. Read full review
30
Boston GlobeMatthew Gilbert
Season 1 Review: The show takes the characters' angst and obsessions much too seriously, elevating their histrionics to soap-operatic levels when it should be flirting with satire. Read full review
30
Chicago TribuneSid Smith
Season 1 Review: Youngsters in this age group might find the show intriguing. The rest of us, censorship or no, will likely be bored. Read full review
30
VarietyLaura Fries
Season 1 Review: About 10 years too late to qualify as provocative. Read full review
25
Detroit Free PressMike Duffy
Season 1 Review: Disheartening proof that even the most talented producers sometimes concoct a prime-time crock. Read full review
25
USA TodayRobert Bianco
Season 1 Review: The Bedford Diaries... is not merely the worst show of the vernal season but one of the worst ever concocted by the soon-to-vanish WB. Read full review
20
Pittsburgh Post-GazetteRob Owen
Season 1 Review: Problem is, the characters are neither likeable enough to cheer for nor despicable enough to loathe. They're just sort of unformed lumps of gray clay with a few stereotypical streaks of color. Read full review
20
Baltimore SunDavid Zurawik
Season 1 Review: The university setting is intended to lend some intellectual weight to all the sexual imagery and conversation, but the road to mediocre TV drama is paved with such disingenuous intentions. Read full review
20
Washington PostTom Shales
Season 1 Review: The student characters seem weak and inauthentic, and many of the actors look as though they're going through college for the third or fourth time. Read full review
20
TV Guide MagazineMatt Roush
Season 1 Review: It wants to be shockingly frank but is mostly dour and phony.
10
Arizona RepublicBill Goodykoontz
Season 1 Review: Oddly enough, the sex isn't what's offensive about the show. Everything else is. Read full review
0
New York PostLinda Stasi
Season 1 Review: This silly excuse for a show is made up of a great-looking ensemble in the most blatant teen-sexuality show in broadcast history. Read full review
0
San Francisco ChronicleTim Goodman
Season 1 Review: "The Bedford Diaries" is just woeful -- the most trite, forced and stage-managed piece of empty titillation you're likely to see. Read full review
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