The Mob Doctor
FOX | Release Date: September 17, 2012
CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
42
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 24 Critic Reviews
Positive:
4
Mixed:
12
Negative:
8
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
75
NewsdayDiane WertsSep 14, 2012
Season 1 Review: No, it's not exactly "House." But it isn't like any other show, either, with its mad mix of moral dilemmas, medical crises, family ties, double-life-living and, y'know, rubouts 'n' stuff. Read full review
70
Miami HeraldGlenn GarvinSep 17, 2012
Season 1 Review: Devlin's complex relationship with the gangsters is what elevates The Mob Doctor into something a cut or two above a Grey's Anatomy rip-off. Read full review
70
PopMattersMichael LandweberSep 17, 2012
Season 1 Review: While Grace must seek to do right, The Mob Doctor is most compelling when she has to sort out what that is, and also when she has to justify what she does wrong. Read full review
63
Chicago Sun-TimesLori RacklSep 11, 2012
Season 1 Review: The show should focus less on catty hospital politics and more on the inherently compelling conflict of a person who has good reason to do bad things. Read full review
60
Los Angeles TimesMary McNamaraSep 17, 2012
Season 1 Review: Despite the frantic and at times clunky initial execution, there are times when The Mob Doctor shows signs of transcending the typical doc-with-something-extra medical procedural. Read full review
60
New York Daily NewsDavid HinckleySep 17, 2012
Season 1 Review: A lead character stuck endlessly agonizing over her fate isn't a character we will watch forever, even though Spiro is one of the freshest and brightest stars on TV this season. Read full review
58
Boston HeraldMark A. PerigardSep 17, 2012
Season 1 Review: This show almost works, and credit has to go to star Jordana Spiro ("My Boys"), who imbues her Dr. Grace Devlin with equal parts brass and cleverness. Read full review
50
New York Magazine (Vulture)Matt Zoller SeitzSep 17, 2012
Season 1 Review: The Mob Doctor's pilot is stranded between quality cable nuance and broadcast network spoon-feeding. Read full review
50
Boston GlobeSarah RodmanSep 17, 2012
Season 1 Review: At its heart, The Mob Doctor feels more like a by-the-numbers CBS procedural than an "edgy" Fox drama. Read full review
50
RedEyeCurt WagnerSep 17, 2012
Season 1 Review: I get the feeling Grace will always do the right thing, which is going to make The Mob Doctor predictable and not all that entertaining. Read full review
42
Uncle BarkyEd BarkSep 12, 2012
Season 1 Review: Mob Doctor is one of those classically bad concepts that somehow got green-lighted as a series. Read full review
42
Entertainment WeeklyDarren FranichSep 12, 2012
Season 1 Review: Here's a show descending into self-parody before it even has a self to parody. [14/21 Sep 2012, p.133] Read full review
40
The New York TimesNeil GenzlingerSep 17, 2012
Season 1 Review: The pilot is so packed with generic scenes of medical crises and mob muscle-flexing that it feels as if the creators went to a buffet of past series and desperately piled everything they could reach onto the mob doc's plate. Read full review
40
Philadelphia Daily NewsEllen GraySep 17, 2012
Season 1 Review: The most earnestly silly show of the fall. Read full review
40
VarietyBrian LowrySep 14, 2012
Season 1 Review: There's nothing initially compelling enough to warrant regular visits, much less house calls. Read full review
40
The Hollywood ReporterTim GoodmanSep 11, 2012
Season 1 Review: In Fox's new series, The Mob Doctor, trying to reinvent the wheel has led to a truly flat idea. Read full review
38
New York PostLinda StasiSep 17, 2012
Season 1 Review: They tried for the tried and true, hoping they'd get "The Sopranos" meets "Grey's Anatomy" while filling the hole "House" left in the schedule. And, like a camel, they ended up with an animal made by committee. Read full review
37
St. Louis Post-DispatchGail PenningtonSep 17, 2012
Season 1 Review: Unfortunately, beyond the strained concept, it has ridiculous dialogue and ludicrous situations that the best actors in the world couldn't salvage. Read full review
30
The Huffington PostMaureen RyanSep 17, 2012
Season 1 Review: Feisty is one thing, rude is another. But all of that is of a piece with the show's generally lazy approach to storytelling: A couple of supporting characters are cardboard villains, and a subplot about a minor's surgical procedure doesn't make a ton of sense if you know the first thing about medical privacy laws. Read full review
30
Pittsburgh Post-GazetteRob OwenSep 17, 2012
Season 1 Review: Fox's preposterous organized crime/medical show combo platter The Mob Doctor manages to be silly and sappy. Read full review
25
USA TodayRobert BiancoSep 17, 2012
Season 1 Review: As its name indicates, it's half Mob drama, half doctor show, and all terrible. Read full review
10
TV Guide MagazineMatt RoushSep 17, 2012
Season 1 Review: An aggressively preposterous mash-up of medical and mob clichés that results in the sort of hack-work melodrama that would defeat even the most brilliant script doctor. Read full review
0
San Francisco ChronicleDavid WiegandSep 14, 2012
Season 1 Review: The two-taste-treats-in-one thing worked for Hostess Ding-Dongs, so maybe Fox figured it would work for this ding-dong of a dud for the masochists in the crowd. Read full review
0
Washington PostHank StueverSep 14, 2012
Season 1 Review: It's never good news when you start to watch a new show and can't get past quibbling with the whole concept. Read full review
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