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
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Los Angeles Daily NewsRob LowmanSep 18, 2015
Season 1 Review: It's hard to see where this all might be going. A nebulous nefarious cabal betting on the outcome of crimes may be the strangest of some of the strange premises for shows this fall, but Winchester is good at being the action hero. If you enjoy that, you might enjoy the show. Read full review
58
The A.V. ClubJoshua AlstonSep 24, 2015
Season 1 Review: Because The Player is wandering into such well-explored territory, it feels limp at its liveliest. Read full review
58
HitfixAlan SepinwallSep 24, 2015
Season 1 Review: "The Player" has the potential to be enjoyable even if the premise seems like a high-risk, low-reward gamble. Read full review
58
Uncle BarkyEd BarkSep 23, 2015
Season 1 Review: Winchester is a solid enough presence as Kane.... Although this isn’t a flat-out terrible series, don’t bet on NBC having a winner opposite fearsome time slot competition from CBS’ Thursday Night Football and ABC’s How to Get Away with Murder. No one likes those odds. Read full review
58
NewsdayDiane WertsSep 23, 2015
Season 1 Review: Sure, Thursday's pilot is junk, but it's pretty, diligent junk, essentially The Whopper of action TV, heaped high with mayhem condiments. Read full review
50
Yahoo TVKen TuckerOct 22, 2015
Season 1 Review: For its combination of silliness revved up to a furious pace, The Player is, as I said at the start, watchable--the kind of visual junk food that you find yourself consuming for an hour before you realize 60 minutes have passed. Read full review
50
Slant MagazineChuck BowenSep 23, 2015
Season 1 Review: The Player is pulp trash with an admirable sense of its own disposability, running through gimmicks nearly as efficiently as Alex plows through requisitely faceless thugs. Read full review
42
Boston HeraldMark A. PerigardSep 24, 2015
Season 1 Review: The show does not inspire confidence. Read full review
40
Las Vegas WeeklyJosh BellSep 24, 2015
Season 1 Review: The show’s version of Vegas is all sin and no city, with basic, glaring geography errors (a character runs through the distinctive sights of Fremont Street and in the next scene refers to it as the Strip). Its narrative and dramatic errors are even less forgivable. Read full review
40
Pittsburgh Post-GazetteRob OwenSep 24, 2015
Season 1 Review: Too many NBC dramas are now all about conspiracies and secret societies. That’s getting tiresome. Case in point, NBC’s The Player. Read full review
40
SlateWilla PaskinSep 21, 2015
Season 1 Review: Without a steady spray of sawdust coming from Snipes’ direction, there’s too much time to focus on the show’s loony premise and unspeakable morals. Read full review
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