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Jul 20, 2017
83
A surprisingly assured supernatural saga with at least a little something for everyone, plus non-stop eye candy for one and all.
Jul 24, 2017
80
If NBC’s new fantasy series (which debuts Monday) sounds like a jumble of every paranormal trope from Ed Wood’s “Night of the Ghouls” to HBO’s “True Blood,” that’s because it is, and wonderfully so.
Jul 24, 2017
67
Like “True Blood,” the cheese factor is high here, but that’s what made the HBO series so fun.
Jul 24, 2017
63
It will undoubtedly seem tame to staunch "True Blood" fans. But a few winks of humor and some good scares make Midnight, Texas more than you'd expect from a summer series on broadcast TV.
Jul 20, 2017
60
Midnight has a way to go to become TV's most bewitching hour, but it shows enough strange promise to merit a visit. [24 Jul - 6 Aug 2017, p.15]
Jul 23, 2017
60
It's too loud and dumb to be really called good, but any fan of vampires, were-tigers or gaseously bloated corpses is going to have a fine time with it.
Jul 24, 2017
50
Midnight, Texas could have been called “True Blood: The Next Generation” or even more precisely “True Blood: The Low-Budget Network Reboot.” Either way, it can’t shake a fang at the original.
Jul 24, 2017
42
The entire enterprise plays like a first draft rushed into production—too obvious to possess enough depth to keep viewers interested, and too weirdly unaware of its own goofy missteps to realize it should be in on the joke.
Jul 20, 2017
40
Star Francois Arnaud, who plays psychic bad boy Manfred (everyone on the show has a silly name), is bland and affectless, and even a supporting cast that also includes an angel, a witch and some sort of international assassin can’t liven up the hodge-podge of elements from better supernatural dramas (including True Blood).
Jul 21, 2017
40
Little touches of character-driven darkness toward the end of the five episodes I watched maybe hinted at better things ahead for Midnight, Texas. I just don't see the pieces in place at the center of the cast or in the creative aspirations for Midnight, Texas to be anything more than a PG-rated version of what ought to be a decadent and overblown summer guilty pleasure.
