Critic Reviews

It is no small feat to pull off the trick of interweaving so many characters and storylines, but the producers of "Six Degrees"... have accomplished it with admirable smoothness for a series that is just getting under way.

The ABC show... is one of the pleasures of the new season, although it may strike some viewers as too conceptually loose to love.

[The] pilot is cleverly written giving the characters a heady, just-specific-enough mix of mystery, intrigue and charm.

It's a drama of chance with enough charm to roll the dice on.

If the stories aren't entirely convincing, the actors are.

It’s a slender conceit for a television show but also a novel one. And the romantic sense of yearning that infuses “Six Degrees” is refreshing in a TV schedule full of corpses and cops.

Six Degrees starts off almost as an anthology series, with six stories set in six different worlds, each one quite interesting. But as their orbits draw closer, interest rapidly morphs into fascination.

The whole web would unravel if each character weren't so interesting all by his or her own lonesome self.

But the particular stories are not what “Six Degrees” is ultimately about. Instead the show’s forte, for viewers like me who don’t mind piety on television, is its ambience of faith.

New York also offers the gift of its locations, which are used abundantly and give the show a sense of reality its script does not always earn. (The actors take up the rest of the slack.)