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Drive
SERIES: Fox, Monday 8:00p (60 minutes)
Starring
Nathan Fillion,
Kristin Lehman,
Mircea Monroe,
Riley Smith,
Kevin Alejandro,
J.D. Pardo,
Emma Stone,
and
Rochelle Aytes
A group of contestants--some of them coerced--compete in an illegal, mysterious, cross-country road race for a $32 million prize.
| GENRE(S): |
Action / Adventure,
Drama
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| CREATED BY: |
Tim Minear
Ben Queen
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| FIRST AIR DATE: |
April 15, 2007 |
A special two-hour premiere airs Sun 4/15 at 8:00p; the show shifts to Mondays at 8:00p on 4/16.
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
75
USA Today Robert Bianco
Sunday's two-hour premiere does a solid job of introducing an intriguing, if not exactly convincing, story and some appealing actors.
75
Entertainment Weekly Jeff Jensen
With some fine-tuning and bolder steering, Drive could be one souped-up storytelling machine.
75
People Weekly Tom Gliatto
This is Amazing Race of the damned, with something of the open-ended, Pandora's-box mystery of Lost, and it has the potential for out-there adventure. [23 Apr 2007, p.37]
70
Time James Poniewozik
Drive is an audacious, exhilarating enough concept, and its pace and writing snappy enough, to make you want to believe.
70
Miami Herald Glenn Garvin
With enough intrigue for a spy thriller and enough careening car chases to satisfy the most deranged Fast and Furious cultists, it's an action series that engages your brain as well as your clutch foot.
70
Seattle Post-Intelligencer Melanie McFarland
This is TV sugar with an IQ and a pulse -- clever, revved-up, often funny, sometimes devastating.
70
LA Weekly Robert Abele
Drive quickly asserts itself as an enjoyably diverting peel-out — brainless but not stupid, a well-stirred conspiracy/action mixture in keeping with Fox’s no-seat-belts hits 24 and Prison Break.
70
Chicago Tribune Maureen Ryan
The kind of well-made brain candy that nearly demands that you watch it with a bowl of popcorn.
63
New York Post Linda Stasi
All in all, brainless fun.
60
Newark Star-Ledger Alan Sepinwall
The Sunday premiere has a nice mix of thrills, comedy and pathos, but is there a show here?
60
Hollywood Reporter Ray Richmond
"Drive" is at once exasperating and mesmerizing, utterly ridiculous if you read too much into it but utterly beguiling on its face.
60
Los Angeles Times Mary McNamara
Much of "Drive" is unabashedly derivative.... Much of it is also unbelievable... But two episodes in, it doesn't really matter.
60
San Jose Mercury News Charlie McCollum
There's just enough punch to it that you'll want to stick around for Hour Two.
60
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Rob Owen
It's TV for a generation of attention deficit disordered kids.
50
Detroit Free Press Mike Duffy
With too many hints of recycled stock characters and formula thriller cliches, "Drive" sputters off the starting line.
50
Newsday Diane Werts
"Drive" is less the sort of textured character study we've come to expect than an action-packed joy ride. That's not to say you won't wanna hop in. But it's hardly a journey you've gotta take.
50
Philadelphia Daily News Ellen Gray
The first hour left me a bit cold, but the second, which arrived yesterday, filled in enough of the blanks to take me as far as Monday.
50
TV Guide Matt Roush
As fast-paced as it is preposterous.
40
Variety Brian Lowry
It's a fairly impressive cast (of characters, not cars), albeit one left skidding around on a rather slippery premise.
40
Wall Street Journal Nancy DeWolf Smith
After just one episode, I was interested enough to make a mental note to watch the final one someday, just to see who won and what the race was all about. People with more time on their hands and a tolerance for utter implausibility may choose to make the whole journey.
40
Philadelphia Inquirer Jonathan Storm
The twist ending of the first episode just might persuade remaining viewers to stick around for hour No. 2.
38
New York Daily News David Hinckley
The plot strains credulity so much that even that action-happy audience might reject the show.
30
Boston Globe Matthew Gilbert
No, "Drive" isn't awful... But the show still lacks the charisma that a serialized story requires to keep viewers coming back for more.
30
Orlando Sentinel Hal Boedeker
Bad timing and bad taste damage Drive. No repair job can salvage this vehicle.
25
Chicago Sun-Times Doug Elfman
At least "Lost" and "Heroes" give us a sci-fi excuse to forgive illogical stretches of the imagination.
10
The New York Times Virginia Heffernan
It’s a television series as a prolonged [car] commercial, and it absolutely crosses the line.
10
Washington Post Tom Shales
Muddled and befuddled from the outset, "Drive" represents a new kind of automotive hybrid -- a scripted treasure hunt designed to look like a reality show, well-stocked with the worst elements of both. It's basically "The Un-Amazing Race."
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