La Brea (TV Series)

"[In the first two episodes] 'La Brea' is all breathless narrative momentum (...) The emphasis on plot twists steamrolls the finer character work needed to maintain our interest in the long run." 

"The concept is engaging enough that a writing team could unpack it and produce some fun, B-movie thrills, or they could get weighed down with the thin writing and cheap effects that feel like they constrain the pilot" 

"There’s enough to like about 'La Brea' that will keep viewers watching, despite the show’s more silly and cheesy elements" 

"It just might find a loyal audience of people willing to go with it to the ends of the bizarro earth and back. If it remains determined to take itself very seriously, though, the bland procedural lurking underneath just might swallow it up" 

"There's very little in the premiere that suggests it's a world worth watching" 

"'La Brea' has to be one of the worst pilots I have watched in years. It is so bad that it makes me wonder why NBC is marketing it so hard." 

"An utter disaster about a disaster (...) If you want to see how low network TV has sunk, just watch it. It’s very instructive."