Z Nation
SyFy | Release Date: September 12, 2014
CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
48
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 11 Critic Reviews
Positive:
3
Mixed:
5
Negative:
3
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
75
The A.V. ClubLaToya FergusonSep 11, 2014
Season 1 Review: Z Nation is the show you watch if you want to see zombie guts splattered across the screen--and there’s nothing wrong with that. Read full review
70
Pittsburgh Post-GazetteRob OwenSep 9, 2014
Season 1 Review: Overall, Z Nation is pretty grounded and also manages to surprise viewers with the characters it chooses to sacrifice in its pilot episode. Read full review
67
Uncle BarkyEd BarkSep 10, 2014
Season 1 Review: Although the acting can be a bit mechanical, Syfy’s Z Nation may have enough pop, intrigue and indispensable gore to serve as more than a mere placeholder for AMC’s The Walking Dead. Read full review
60
The Hollywood ReporterTim GoodmanSep 15, 2014
Season 1 Review: As a B-level entry it’s at least entertaining, and if some of the sillier aspects of the pilot can be improved on could be one of those mindless entertainment options we all need now and again. Read full review
50
The New York TimesMike HaleSep 11, 2014
Season 1 Review: It most closely resembles the assembly-line Hollywood westerns that provide the model for the zombie genre.... The mundanely self-aware screenplay includes references to the zompocalypse and lines like “God, I hate moral dilemmas.” Read full review
50
Boston HeraldMark A. PerigardSep 11, 2014
Season 1 Review: Gore-hounds will find a couple of visual shots fascinating, but there’s little here for anyone to justify the hour investment. Read full review
50
VarietyBrian LowrySep 10, 2014
Season 1 Review: While the series incorporates a specific quest element in the form of its possible “last, best hope to save humanity,” there’s just not enough to distinguish it from the other programs dealing more inventively with similar material, including “Dead” and this summer’s FX entry “The Strain.” Read full review
40
Philadelphia InquirerDavid HiltbrandSep 11, 2014
Season 1 Review: If you'll take zombies any way you can get 'em, Z Nation will hold you over. More discriminating fans may want to wait until next month, when The Walking Dead rumbles back to life. Read full review
33
Entertainment WeeklyJeff JensenSep 5, 2014
Season 1 Review: We resent the storytelling for not maximizing the sublime ridiculousness of a rabid zombie baby hunting the adult heroes. [12 Sep 2014, p.58] Read full review
30
TV Guide MagazineMatt RoushSep 12, 2014
Season 1 Review: While Z Nation (or as I prefer to think of it, The Running Dead) doesn't exactly play the gory low-budget mayhem for campy laughter, it's hard not to roll, or possibly cover, one's eyes at something this familiar and deeply shallow, with casting mostly so generic--with the exception of Lost's Harold Perrineau as a Delta Force soldier barking orders--that they're all so much chum in this kill-or-be-eaten apocalypse. Read full review
0
San Francisco ChronicleDavid WiegandSep 10, 2014
Season 1 Review: Even for SyFy, this is Grade Z television. Read full review
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