Critic Reviews
| 80 |
San Jose Mercury News Charlie McCollum
The show could grow on you quickly because those involved are actually talented and engaging on- and offstage. One upside to Nashville is that it doesn't feel as staged as "Laguna Beach" or, in particular, "The Hills," a spinoff of "Beach." |
| 75 |
New York Daily News David Hinckley
Many of its real-life characters display a lot of talent. They also are so transparent about their emotions, whether sincere or calculating, that their social interactions play more like a scripted soap on fast forward. |
| 70 |
Hollywood Reporter Ray Richmond
It's clear that this new Fox original series has its class act together as it follows singers both on the verge or stardom and just starting out as they chase their dreams in the capital of country music. |
| 40 |
The New York Times Virginia Heffernan
As a self-aware show, perhaps too self-aware, Nashville attends closely to the money-country nexus, mindful that it’s not your daddy’s, nor Robert Altman’s, "Nashville." |
| 30 |
Variety Phil Gallo
The show is as directionless as its stars. |
| 30 |
Newsday Diane Werts
This show is slickly packaged and unchallengingly trite in its slavish reality-show construction. |
| 30 |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer Melanie McFarland
It takes a while to connect to these characters, and those who show up might not be willing to stick around until the melodrama kicks in. |
| 30 |
Washington Post John Maynard
All the slick production values and some decent music in Nashville can't make up for these one-dimensional subjects, and their angst over their fledgling careers grows tiresome. |
| 30 |
Los Angeles Times Jon Caramanica
Almost every scene on Nashville feels ploddingly staged. Every conversation is alarmingly, and unconvincingly, topical; no scene is wasted. |
| 25 |
Chicago Sun-Times Doug Elfman
My name is Clint, and I'm a big stupid doofus from Texas starring in a new "docu-soap" called Nashville, where me and a bunch of other country singers try to become famous, like those girls did on "Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County." |
| 20 |
Chicago Tribune Maureen Ryan
It all seems painfully staged and contrived. |
| 20 |
Miami Herald Glenn Garvin
The show's dialogue feels scripted, its frequent hookups and breakups abrupt and phony, and its scenes from the music business out and out fraudulent. |
| 20 |
Boston Globe Matthew Gilbert
Even if you're a shameless lover of "Laguna Beach" and its spinoff, "The Hills," you should probably avoid this country-flavored iteration of the semi-scripted reality soap formula. It's pretty doggone dull. |
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