| 75 |
New York Daily News David Hinckley
After one hour, we not only care about the patients - but care quite a bit about the doctors. |
| 60 |
Philadelphia Daily News Ellen Gray
[3 Lbs.], as medical shows go, is pretty, full of the kind of light-show graphics the "CSIs" and "House" have led us to expect. |
| 60 |
The New York Times Alessandra Stanley
The question is not whether "3 Lbs" is familiar and predictable, but whether "3 Lbs" is entertaining. It is, and mostly because it is so familiar and predictable. |
| 50 |
Hollywood Reporter Barry Garron
Although competently produced, the series about doctors who specialize in brain maladies lacks a dramatic spark. Characters aren't fully formed; stories aren't arresting. Sometimes it even seems like the show was created from the transplanted organs of other series. |
| 50 |
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Rob Owen
Make no mistake, "3 Lbs." is a show that will better appeal to the CBS audience than "Smith" did, but it's a pretty generic show. |
| 50 |
San Francisco Chronicle Tim Goodman
It never finds a compelling vision while inside those heads to suggest it will be anything more than a good, but not great, hospital drama. |
| 50 |
Entertainment Weekly Gillian Flynn
[A] House wannabe. |
| 50 |
TV Guide Matt Roush
Like on House, we go inside the body, zooming from nerve endings to the mind's exotic landscape, where surreal images convey mystery maladies. If only 3 LBS were as provocative. |
| 50 |
Detroit Free Press Mike Duffy
There's nothing remotely fresh or original about "3 Lbs." But it is well made, reasonably diverting and lucky to be on CBS. |
| 50 |
New York Post Linda Stasi
This show could use some brain surgery itself. |
| 40 |
Los Angeles Times Robert Lloyd
While it's quite watchable if you don't expect much from it, and while even though the cast is good company... the show is not vivid or daring enough to overcome one's sense of having seen it all before. |
| 40 |
Variety Brian Lowry
It's hard to escape the sense we're watching the bastard child of the union between "Shark" and "House." |
| 40 |
Chicago Tribune Maureen Ryan
What’s depressing about “3 lbs” is that there’s no passionate spark behind it; it’s a doctor drama made by committee. |
| 37 |
USA Today Robert Bianco
The most important lesson from tonight's premiere is that there isn't a single plot point this yawn-a-minute show won't feel the need to hammer home. |
| 30 |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer Melanie McFarland
You'll see nothing that hasn't been done on other networks and with higher skill, energy and imagination. |
| 30 |
LA Weekly Robert Abele
3 Lbs. seems like microwaved leftovers. |
| 30 |
San Jose Mercury News Charlie McCollum
As hard as Tucci tries -- and he tries very hard -- he can't make Dr. Doug Hanson into Dr. Gregory House. It's not his fault; the writers simply don't give him the dialogue and depth that Hugh Laurie gets to play with on "House.'' |
| 30 |
Boston Globe Matthew Gilbert
If they can emphasize the science over the tiresome characters, they might add a few ounces to this lightweight copycat. |
| 30 |
Kansas City Star Aaron Barnhart
A forgettable amalgam of "House", "CSI", and every hospital soap opera ever made. |
| 30 |
Newark Star-Ledger Alan Sepinwall
Who wants to watch a less funny, vaguely cuddlier House impersonator? |
| 20 |
Newsday Diane Werts
There's perverse fun to be had in watching "3 lbs." Count the groans as you spot yet another trite piece of formula. |
| 20 |
Miami Herald Glenn Garvin
Stuffed with incomprehensible medical jargon and grisly shots of exposed brains, 3 Lbs. would be a major annoyance even if it had an original thought in its seriously underweight head. |
| 20 |
Philadelphia Inquirer Jonathan Storm
3 Lbs. is the most boring new show this season. |
| 20 |
Washington Post Tom Shales
Hanson might be enough to fill a few paragraphs in an old Reader's Digest "Most Unforgettable Character" featurette, but the thought of spending an hour with him every week is about as attractive as having (place name of your least favorite medical procedure here) with the same frequency. |
