• Network: Peacock
  • Series Premiere Date: Nov 10, 2022
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Metascore
42

Mixed or average reviews - based on 9 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 9
  2. Negative: 2 out of 9
  1. Reviewed by: Matthew Gilbert
    Nov 23, 2022
    40
    The show doesn’t dig very deeply into Avi’s method, or how his belief system enables him to perform his tricks, nor does it follow through on any of the ethical issues his unconventional methods might raise; it simply pursues the procedural material. That wouldn’t be a deal-breaker if the two missing-person cases that make up the eight-episode season were more compelling. They lean hard on very familiar crime-solving tropes, cycling through red herrings on autopilot.
  2. Reviewed by: Joel Keller
    Nov 10, 2022
    40
    With Kelley writing and Levinson directing, there’s no chance that The Calling is going to look or feel like the average network police procedural. ... We’re just not sure what to make of how Avi is characterized on the show, if any of his fellow cops are anything but one-dimensional characters. ... Completely short circuits a deeper sketch of Avi himself but makes religion and faith into a tool instead of a way of life.
  3. Reviewed by: Angie Han
    Nov 10, 2022
    40
    Where a shrewder series might have dug deeper, eventually hitting on a distinctive identity of its own, The Calling only grows shallower and duller as its eight-episode series progresses. The Calling‘s descent into mediocrity is made only more disappointing by the glimmers of potential it shows early on.