Vice
HBO | SHOWTIME | Release Date: April 5, 2013
CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
67
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 12 Critic Reviews
Positive:
8
Mixed:
2
Negative:
2

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
91
Entertainment WeeklyJessica ShawMar 29, 2013
Season 1 Review: The lack of polish makes Vice all the more riveting. [5 Apr 2013, p.63]
88
New York PostLinda StasiApr 5, 2013
Season 1 Review: There are a whole lot of “Holy s--t!” moments, but it’s very real and astoundingly raw--without once giving you the idea these are show-off correspondents with a makeup artist and clean clothes. Read full review
80
Philadelphia InquirerTirdad DerakhshaniApr 4, 2013
Season 1 Review: It's graphic--disturbingly and, some would say, unnecessarily, so.... But it's also intelligent and enlightening. Read full review
80
The Hollywood ReporterTim GoodmanMar 29, 2013
Season 1 Review: This isn’t look-at-me journalism with a fitted Gap t-shirt. It’s more of a holy-hell-can-you-believe-this approach that fights perfectly on a cable channel trying to do something different. Read full review
80
VarietyBrian LowryMar 29, 2013
Season 1 Review: Hosted by Vice founder Shane Smith--hardly a natural on camera--the magazine nevertheless resonates precisely because it zeroes in on unsettling tales of violence and cruelty abroad, at a moment when TV news frequently seems preoccupied with trifles at home. Read full review
75
San Francisco ChronicleDavid WiegandApr 5, 2013
Season 1 Review: In a world that has exploded with instantaneously accessible information, television news is hard-pressed to figure out how to keep up. It takes a show like Vice to make other news magazine shows seem like they belong in a TV antiques shop. Read full review
70
Los Angeles TimesRobert LloydApr 5, 2013
Season 1 Review: What Vice offers is not deep or thorough, but it is not without value. The news comes in pieces now; to get the full picture, you have to assemble it yourself. Read full review
70
SalonWilla PaskinApr 5, 2013
Season 1 Review: Despite showing some very gruesome imagery--a real decapitated head, for example--and having a swaggy, “we’re so hip we send our reporters into dangerous places looking like they just rolled out of bed” self-aggrandizement, Vice is fundamentally earnest. Read full review
60
New York Daily NewsDavid HinckleyApr 5, 2013
Season 1 Review: Vice tries to go where other news, documentary and magazine shows do not. That’s okay, though it does at times overstate its pioneering prowess. Read full review
60
Washington PostHank StueverApr 4, 2013
Season 1 Review: Vice seems to be in search of some sweet spot between “60 Minutes” and “Jackass,” and there’s enough here to suggest that such a spot may exist. The concept could work, especially if Smith and his correspondents were more inclined to point the cameras away from themselves. Read full review
30
The Huffington PostMaureen RyanApr 5, 2013
Season 1 Review: It's the sloppy approach to context and the tabloid-y aspects of Vice that are ultimately harder to take than the self-aggrandizing bro-ness of it all. Read full review
30
The New York TimesMike HaleApr 4, 2013
Season 1 Review: The problem with Vice isn’t its insistent aggrandizement but its excessive softheadedness. It’s journalism at the intersection of shallow and gullible, where they meet, high-five and compare tattoos. Read full review
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