The Chronicle

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Season 1
  • Network: SyFy
  • Series Premiere Date: Jul 14, 2001
Metascore
70

Generally favorable reviews - based on 7 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 7
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 7
  3. Negative: 0 out of 7

Critic Reviews

  1. Houston Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Mike McDaniel
    Aug 6, 2014
    91
    Everything is seriously tongue-in-cheek. The scares satisfy, and the laughs are earned. [8 Jul 2001]
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  2. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Linda Stasi
    Aug 6, 2014
    80
    Sci Fi has done once more what the networks seem very often to have forgotten how to do: make watching TV really, really fun again. ... It's fun in the way that "Ghostbusters" was fun - funny, silly, scary. [13 Jul 2001]
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  3. Orlando Sentinel
    Reviewed by: Hal Boedeker
    Aug 6, 2014
    80
    Cheerfully oddball ... The Chronicle is like a big summer movie, but without the bombast.
  5. Boston Herald
    Reviewed by: Mark A. Perigard
    Aug 6, 2014
    75
    "The Chronicle" seems to want to have as much fun with its stories as its viewers. [12 Jul 2001]
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  6. Seattle Post-Intelligencer
    Reviewed by: John Levesque
    Aug 6, 2014
    60
    A basic-cable homage to "Men in Black."
  7. Deseret News
    Reviewed by: Scott D. Pierce
    Aug 6, 2014
    50
    "The Chronicle" is more a goof than a scare. [12 Jul 2001]
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  8. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
    Reviewed by: Rob Owen
    Aug 6, 2014
    50
    The hybrid style of comedy and drama in "The Chronicle" doesn't quite jell. There's potential, but it hasn't been realized.