The Evidence
ABC | Release Date: March 22, 2006
CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
40
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 24 Critic Reviews
Positive:
3
Mixed:
9
Negative:
12

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
90
Wall Street Journal
Season 1 Review: It doesn't happen very often that halfway into the pilot for a new show, you're already looking forward to subsequent episodes just to find out more about the characters you've glimpsed in the first few minutes. Read full review
75
Christian Science MonitorGloria Goodale
Season 1 Review: Good casting and well-paced writing give hope. Read full review
70
Washington PostTom Shales
Season 1 Review: What lifts "Evidence" well above the clamor of standard cop shows is the charisma between its two male leads. Read full review
60
Orlando SentinelHal Boedeker
Season 1 Review: The Evidence needs more distinctive twists to stand out in the overpopulated crime lineup. Read full review
50
Entertainment WeeklyDalton Ross
Season 1 Review: It's funny, I was just saying how there aren't enough procedural forensic/police dramas on TV these days. [24 Mar 2006, p.64]
50
Chicago TribuneSid Smith
Season 1 Review: Estes and Jones are appealing, slightly underplaying their buddy shtick. In a galaxy far, far away, their act might click. But in our universe of cop show overload, they're just another team grappling with grisly violence and unrepentant evil. Read full review
50
USA TodayRobert Bianco
Season 1 Review: Even if The Evidence were the first show of its kind, it would still be mediocre. Read full review
40
TV Guide MagazineMatt Roush
Season 1 Review: The very definition of generic.
40
Miami HeraldGlenn Garvin
Season 1 Review: You can pretty much watch this show any night of the week under its other titles, CSI and Law & Order. Read full review
40
NewsdayVerne Gay
Season 1 Review: [A] shamelessly derivative cop show set in the shamelessly overexposed city by the bay, with high-school-play-level acting performances which help make the overall effect cornier than a cornfield in Kansas. And yet ... and yet, there's something appealing about ABC's new cop drama. Read full review
40
Philadelphia InquirerJonathan Storm
Season 1 Review: In the pilot tonight, one of the clues has nothing to do with the murder, and that hardly seems fair, though "fair" in another sense might be the best way to describe The Evidence. Unless you want to go for "poor." Read full review
40
The New York TimesAlessandra Stanley
Season 1 Review: The show's main characters are all too familiar. Read full review
38
Chicago Sun-TimesDoug Elfman
Season 1 Review: It demonstrates how a show can be a run-of-the-mill cop drama despite a talented cast and a few interesting twists. Read full review
30
Pittsburgh Post-GazetteRob Owen
Season 1 Review: Showing the evidence really adds nothing as the story twists, turns and contorts itself in an attempt to keep viewers from tuning out before the hour is up.
30
The Hollywood ReporterBarry Garron
Season 1 Review: In the end, it's just a case of pouring old crime into new bottles. Read full review
30
Boston GlobeMatthew Gilbert
Season 1 Review: It all feels inessential. Read full review
30
Cleveland Plain DealerMark Dawidziak
Season 1 Review: Has little to offer but formula storytelling and conventional crime-drama techniques. Read full review
30
Los Angeles TimesPaul Brownfield
Season 1 Review: It isn't a bad gimmick, establishing a certain tension, but the premise is about the only thing that recommends "The Evidence," a show that otherwise seems to be moving you -- rather than moving -- through its procedural paces. Read full review
25
San Francisco ChronicleTim Goodman
Season 1 Review: Let's present some evidence for you to analyze: A tired premise. Overly familiar characters. Dull writing. An unclear tone. A series that pales in comparison to any of the "CSI" shows and pretty much every new crime and punishment procedural in the last five years. Read full review
25
Detroit Free PressMike Duffy
Season 1 Review: Just another tediously cliched crime procedural. Whodunit? Who cares. Read full review
25
New York Daily NewsDavid Hinckley
Season 1 Review: The drama has more false frights than a student horror film, and such an uneven and incompatible tone that it's tough to tell which is funnier, the scenes of alleged humor or the scenes of alleged drama. Read full review
20
VarietyBrian Lowry
Season 1 Review: This basically feels like the fifth best cop drama of the 1978 TV season. Read full review
20
Seattle Post-IntelligencerMelanie McFarland
Season 1 Review: I'm not sure which is worse, that tired back story or Martin Landau besmirching his career by appearing in this as a wizened forensics guy. Read full review
20
SlateTroy Patterson
Season 1 Review: If there exists a device called a Procedural-O-Matic, then it created this show. Read full review
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