Critic Reviews

Stitchers is cute and so slight in dramatic gravitas that it floats away into the ether.

Even though its premiere suggest both campy sci-fi scenes and creepy murder mysteries, Stitchers is as lifeless as the corpses Kirsten explores. [29 May/5 Jun 2015, p.100]

Harris is saddled with quite a bit of exposition, but his most significant hurdle is the series’ uneven tone. Stitchers oscillates between embracing the premise’s inherent campiness or eschewing it in favor of a more intense quasi-realism.

Kirsten’s way of solving crimes may be complex, but the crimes themselves seem straight out of the CSI franchise.

The audience is expected somehow to understand the range of her abilities, but sorry; we need more clues. That, and a reason to care.

After the first two episodes, the series looks less like a part of that collection, and more like a factory-made knockoff stitched together from pieces of other shows.

There are a few lighter moments here and there--including some played for laughs that seem like they'd play better if they were serious, including the first time Kirsten gets stitched--but mostly Stitchers is a ho-hum procedural with an unlikeably emotionless lead character with daddy issues and the promise of hanky-panky with a not-nerdy scientist

Stitchers is the kind of show that thinks that by having Kirsten make a sarcastically knowing reference to Catwoman, it’s immunized itself from charges of silly sex-objectivism; it hasn’t. I don’t see sci-fi fans putting Stitchers on their radar, or fans of Pretty Little Liars sticking around very long after the PLL premiere.

It's all completely ridiculous and derivative, which Schechter is quick to acknowledge. Indeed, the second-best thing about "Stitchers" is its game if not quite successful attempt to straddle sci-fi and sci-fi satire.... The first-best thing about the show is its cast, who all show promise far beyond the limits of their roles here.

It’s difficult to tell if this flawed system of telling-not-showing is simply bad writing and storytelling, or if it’s a result of trying to dumb the show down for a teen audience.