• Network: CBS
  • Series Premiere Date: Jan 3, 1998
Season #: 2, 1
Metascore
47

Mixed or average reviews - based on 21 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 21
  2. Negative: 7 out of 21
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  1. Newark Star-Ledger
    Reviewed by: Alan Sepinwall
    Jun 6, 2014
    60
    Magnificent Seve" can't hold a candle to its cinematic predecessor, or to most of the old TV classics like Gunsmoke. But in a world where all the cowboys rode off into the sunset decades ago, we'll take a watered-down Western just fine, ma'am. [3 Jan 1998]
  2. Seattle Post-Intelligencer
    Reviewed by: John Levesque
    Jun 6, 2014
    60
    A few gun-notches below magnificent. [3 Jan 1998]
  3. Boston Globe
    Reviewed by: Matthew Gilbert
    Jun 6, 2014
    60
    While it pales next to the original movie, it is an enjoyable Saturday-matinee-styled Western show with a charismatic cast and the potential for savvy plots reflecting the complications of race and violence in the post-Civil War West. [3 Jan 1998]
  4. The Hollywood Reporter
    Reviewed by: Irv Letofsky
    Jun 6, 2014
    60
    There's some nice moments in the premiere and great camaraderie. But it's stock stuff and you would hope for some invention. [31 Dec 1997]
  5. Reviewed by: Ray Richmond
    Jun 6, 2014
    60
    A standard cowboys ‘n’ Indians, good vs. evil horse opera where good looks and good shots come together for the good of mankind.
  6. Reviewed by: Ken Tucker
    Jun 6, 2014
    42
    Trying to be both sensitive and obstreperous, TV's Seven lacks a sure sense of itself, its audience— or even its history. ... The new Seven would be a lot better if its gang interacted more interestingly—more contentiously—with each other, and if its cast wasn't so uniformly youngish.
  7. Chicago Tribune
    Reviewed by: Allan Johnson
    Jun 6, 2014
    40
    Most of the staples are there: the shootouts, flinty stares, purposeful strides through gunpowder smoke, tobacco spitting and rides into the sunset. What's missing is a little credibility. [2 Jan 1998]
  8. Newsday
    Reviewed by: Diane Werts
    Jun 6, 2014
    40
    An energetic attempt ... What there isn't, unfortunately, is enough character development to make you care about anybody or anything. [1 Jan 1998]