The Player
NBC | Release Date: September 24, 2015
CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
43
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 26 Critic Reviews
Positive:
3
Mixed:
11
Negative:
12
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
37
USA TodayRobert BiancoSep 23, 2015
Season 1 Review: The Player does stand out. Just not in a way that is likely to make anyone want to watch. Read full review
37
St. Louis Post-DispatchGail PenningtonSep 4, 2015
Season 1 Review: Phillip Winchester gets tangled up with Wesley Snipes in Las Vegas in a muddled scenario that involves predicting crimes and seeking vengeance. Read full review
33
Washington PostHank StueverSep 16, 2015
Season 1 Review: The concept in NBC’s The Player is lamentably simple and might have been better off as a video game. Read full review
30
The Salt Lake TribuneScott D. PierceSep 25, 2015
Season 1 Review: The action sequences are cool. Unbelievable, but cool. Fast forward through the rest of this drivel and just watch those, if you must. Read full review
30
New York Magazine (Vulture)Margaret LyonsSep 24, 2015
Season 1 Review: The Player is flashy nonsense. Read full review
30
The WrapHeidi PatalanoSep 24, 2015
Season 1 Review: Though it has some slick car chases, The Player lacks the wit, ingenuity and originality to inspire curiosity about what’s going to happen next. Read full review
30
The Hollywood ReporterTim GoodmanSep 24, 2015
Season 1 Review: The Player is basically absurd with a dollop of stupid on top and a whole bunch of empty tossed in for filler. Yes, empty can be filler. Read full review
30
The New York TimesNeil GenzlingerSep 23, 2015
Season 1 Review: A new action series from NBC with a ludicrous plot full of unlikable characters played by not particularly likable actors. Read full review
30
VarietyBrian LowrySep 22, 2015
Season 1 Review: It’s hard to see the series blossoming into much of anything, based on the thudding nature of the premiere.... Even without the absolutely tortured nature of the premise here, the characters are stiff to the point of being laughable. Read full review
30
The Huffington PostMaureen RyanSep 17, 2015
Season 1 Review: I might have tried harder to get past the bad taste that situation left in my mouth, had the rest of the show not been fairly paint-by-numbers and generic, but as escapist hours go, there's not a lot of meat on the bone here. Read full review
20
We Got This CoveredIsaac Feldberg Sep 25, 2015
Season 1 Review: Everything on the screen has been played out, ad nauseam, in other series--we’ve seen dozens of brooding-hero-with-a-dead-wife narratives and omniscient-organization-secretly-saving-the-world backdrops in the past few years alone, but it’s entirely possible that none of those other shows have left as bland a taste in the mouth as this one. Read full review
20
Reason.comGlenn GarvinSep 21, 2015
Season 1 Review: In short, they're plotting to turn the world into an episode of Starsky and Hutch. Read full review
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