| 75 |
Entertainment Weekly
Fans of the Pretty Woman shopping-montage scene... will be pleased with Windfall for sprinkling in splurges both decadent and dutiful... But... Windfall is smart enough to tighten the screws immediately. |
| 75 |
Christian Science Monitor Gloria Goodale
"Windfall" proves you don't need to be marooned on a remote South Sea island to be lost. |
| 70 |
The New York Times Alessandra Stanley
It's an enjoyable, intriguing look at what can happen to a group of ordinary, cash-strapped people who wake up one day as multimillionaires. |
| 70 |
Washington Post John Maynard
An addictive frolic for summertime. |
| 63 |
New York Post Linda Stasi
"Windfall" is not the greatest show to hit the summer circuit, but not the worst either. |
| 50 |
Los Angeles Times Robert Lloyd
It's a decent enough show, a soap opera essentially, playing around with heavy themes and life-changing events but lightweight enough not to make you think too hard or keep you glued to the television when you decide you want something from the refrigerator — the TV equivalent of a beach book. |
| 50 |
USA Today Robert Bianco
Seldom has a set of characters worn out their welcome more quickly. |
| 50 |
People Weekly Tom Gliatto
It's a gauge of how much reality programming has changed TV that I kept thinking that Mark Burnett could come in, push some situational hot buttons and produce a better show. [12 Jun 2006, p.39] |
| 50 |
Detroit Free Press Mike Duffy
A breezy summertime soap opera. |
| 40 |
Variety Brian Lowry
Most of the beats suffer from a been-there quality, and there's a glut of interlocking storylines that might be less of an issue, admittedly, if two or three really merited attention. |
| 40 |
LA Weekly Robert Abele
I hope future episodes don’t feel as if somebody took three hours of material and reduced it to one. |
| 38 |
New York Daily News David Hinckley
For every story line that intrigues, and every character that sparks some interest, there are several others that don't. |
| 30 |
Slate Troy Patterson
A shrewdly silly show offering something lovingly hackneyed for everyone. |
| 30 |
Philadelphia Inquirer Jonathan Storm
[A] silly new soap. |
| 30 |
Chicago Tribune Maureen Ryan
"Windfall's" interlocking plots are mostly predictable and bland. |
| 20 |
Hollywood Reporter Barry Garron
The characters have the depth of a dollar bill, and their predicaments produce few surprises. It's not that the stories lack potential -- well, some maybe. Mostly it's that the level of drama rarely goes beyond daytime fare. |
| 20 |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer Melanie McFarland
"Windfall's" concept becomes increasingly muddled. Is it a bad soap opera, or a sluggish thriller? |
| 20 |
Salon Heather Havrilesky
There's an attempt at darkness here that the writers don't pull off; instead each negative turn of events just feels depressing. |
| 10 |
TV Guide Matt Roush
An unsatisfying and predictable jumble. |
