Naomi
Season 1 Premiere:
Jan 11, 2022
Metascore
Generally Favorable
72
User score
Mixed or Average
5.2
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72
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Jan 11, 2022
83
Naomi does manage to stand out by virtue of being one of the most character-focused superhero endeavors to date. Presuming it continues on that path, there’s a lot of promise in store.
Jan 11, 2022
80
It does seem like Naomi is going to take its sweet time to explore its main character’s story. And that’s just fine with us, especially if it gives us more time to get to know what seems like an anomaly on TV these days, which is a teenager with her head on straight and a strong desire to find out more about herself.
Jan 5, 2022
80
This one’s a winner thanks to an incredibly likable lead character, skate-boarding, comic book-loving Naomi (a winning Kaci Walfall).
Jan 13, 2022
72
It’s refreshing to see a high-schooler who’s a smart, driven academic success and is also universally liked, and who’s popular but not a queen bee or mean-girl type. Naomi is mighty wholesome, with its pansexual flirtations and warmly supportive, non-competitive central female friendship. But that also makes Naomi feel a bit too perfect to be real.
Jan 11, 2022
70
I’m going to go so far as to say that nothing that happens early in Naomi is really all that fun or interesting. What makes the show work is that all of the central performances are gawky and charming and, for the most part, less CW-polished than I would have expected, in a good way. There isn’t a standout performance, other than Walfall’s appealing lead turn, but the bickering and loose bantering is all quite natural.
Jan 11, 2022
50
Essentially, Naomi joins the list of teen-with-a-destiny dramas -- "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" comes to mind, a relic of the CW's origins -- in which the audience either buys into the soapy aspects or zaps through the at-school diversions to get to the good parts. For those who lean toward the latter, first impressions suggest the series could be a long slog.
Jan 10, 2022
50
“Naomi” still has a lot of road to travel before the effort can be fully measured, but it’s nonetheless admirable how it uses the DC universe to center the story on a Black teen girl, offering a perspective rarely given focus while telling a different kind of superhero story.
User score
Mixed or Average
5.2
40% Positive
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14 Ratings
20% Mixed
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40% Negative
14 Ratings
14 Ratings
Feb 1, 2022
1
Written by the mentally challenged for children under five. There is no continuity for anything. An object will be completely destroyed in one scene, only to be perfectly fine in the next. This happens far too frequently. They claim that personality is something that is teachable at school, as an excuse to continually tell the audience that the main character is perfect. Continuity between episodes is laughable. What is established in one is invalidated or reversed with a single throw-away line in the next. On top the costume department is clearly on drugs, or the budget is so low they are forced to supply from a thrift store.
