The Night Shift
NBC | Release Date: May 27, 2014
CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
44
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 16 Critic Reviews
Positive:
1
Mixed:
12
Negative:
3
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63
St. Louis Post-DispatchGail PenningtonMay 27, 2014
Season 1 Review: They are quirky--cookie-cutter quirky. But for summer TV drama, that's not the worst they could be. Read full review
60
New York Daily NewsDavid HinckleyMay 27, 2014
Season 1 Review: With a relatively modest first order and a late May launch, The Night Shift may be seen by NBC as, realistically, a summer series. By that standard, it does its job and more. Read full review
58
The A.V. ClubEmily VanDerWerffMay 27, 2014
Season 1 Review: Night Shift doesn’t really have another gear, but it refuses to go full Grey’s Anatomy and ramp up the sexy complications so much that it attains the lift off of fun melodrama. Read full review
58
Boston HeraldMark A. PerigardMay 27, 2014
Season 1 Review: The Night Shift gets the X-ray right for a series. Now it just needs to find a way to pump some new blood. Read full review
50
People WeeklyTom GliattoMay 30, 2014
Season 1 Review: Shift is competent but useful mostly as a reminder to stay healthy at all costs and avoid this sort of place. [9 Jun 2014, p.34]
50
Los Angeles TimesRobert LloydMay 27, 2014
Season 1 Review: In some ways, it is like a placebo, lacking substance, but not ineffective. In others, it is a kind of gaily packaged generic equivalent to some better-known brand. Read full review
50
The New York TimesNeil GenzlingerMay 27, 2014
Season 1 Review: Don’t look for the depth of “House,” “Grey’s Anatomy” or other top-flight medical dramas here. But if preposterous, pulse-pounding pileups of bizarre accidents and obscure medical conditions appeal to you, sure, put the trashy beach novel aside and help yourself. Read full review
50
Uncle BarkyEd BarkMay 27, 2014
Season 1 Review: Night Shift won’t make anyone forget the glories of NBC’s ER at the height of its powers. It shows some signs of being a passable summertime drama series, though. Read full review
50
Denver PostJoanne OstrowMay 23, 2014
Season 1 Review: Both ["Undateable" and The Night Shift] are NBC series serving as spring-summer filler, adequate at what they do but not worth scheduling your life around. Read full review
42
HitfixAlan SepinwallMay 27, 2014
Season 1 Review: Its hero is so obnoxiously awesome and self-righteous that I could only make it through half of the whopping eight episodes NBC sent out for review. Read full review
40
Boston GlobeMatthew GilbertMay 27, 2014
Season 1 Review: The action may be as fast and persistent as a gurney on the way to an operating theater, but nothing can hide the wobbly scripting and weak characters it’s all riding on Read full review
40
Pittsburgh Post-GazetteRob OwenMay 27, 2014
Season 1 Review: Sometimes the year’s warmest months remain a dumping ground for warmed-over series. Night Shift has all the earmarks of a show being dumped. Read full review
40
VarietyBrian LowryMay 27, 2014
Season 1 Review: Not surprisingly, the producers assemble a sizable, attractive and appropriately diverse cast, albeit without giving many of them much to distinguish their characters, who--whatever the color of their scrubs--simply blend together. Read full review
30
RogerEbert.comBrian TallericoMay 27, 2014
Season 1 Review: The cast here is decent, especially Flint and Rodriguez, but the writing is unforgivably bad. Read full review
25
Chicago Sun-TimesLori RacklMay 27, 2014
Season 1 Review: The hodgepodge plot feels like an Obamacare ad rounded out with “Melrose Place” romance and “Untold Stories of the ER” weirdness. NBC would have been better off airing “Chicago Fire” repeats rather than fill this primetime slot with a summer burnoff series that’s D.O.A. Read full review
0
San Francisco ChronicleDavid WiegandMay 23, 2014
Season 1 Review: It's hard to imagine any other reason for NBC to go ahead with a noisy, unwatchable show like Night Shift except to fill holes in its schedule. Read full review
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