• Network: NBC
  • Series Premiere Date: Feb 5, 2000
Metascore
55

Mixed or average reviews - based on 20 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 20
  2. Negative: 3 out of 20

Critic Reviews

  1. Reviewed by: Linda Stasi
    Nov 20, 2019
    80
    I’m not clairvoyant enough to know whether viewers will be too freaked to watch The Others a second time. Whatever happens to the show, there’s no doubt that it’s breakthrough television.
  2. Reviewed by: John Carman
    Nov 20, 2019
    75
    The supernatural genre is one of the toughest to crack in TV, but The Others appears to be a sharper, better produced entry than most of its predecessors.
  3. Arizona Republic
    Reviewed by: Bill Goodykoontz
    Nov 20, 2019
    70
    The Others isn't an across-the-board success like The Sixth Sense. But it has its moments. And once you get past the sluggishness of the first episode, it's not half bad. [4 Feb 2000. p.1E]
  4. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
    Reviewed by: Rob Owen
    Nov 20, 2019
    70
    Billingsley brings a gentleness to the role, making the character believable, decent and a surrogate for the audience. He watches The Others with amazement, and so will viewers. [4 Feb 2000]
  5. Reviewed by: Scott D. Pierce
    Nov 20, 2019
    70
    Whether The Others turns out to be a great series remains to be seen. It is, at least, an intriguing one with possibilities.
  6. Seattle Post-Intelligencer
    Reviewed by: John Levesque
    Nov 20, 2019
    67
    The Others makes glaciers look fast. [5 Feb 2000]
  7. Reviewed by: Tom Shales
    Nov 20, 2019
    67
    It may sound like a third-, fourth- or fifteenth-cousin to Fox's "The X-Files"--and some of its producers did work on episodes of that series--but there's more to "The Others" than that. And its supernaturalism is rather good-natured, at least by comparison.