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Drive
SERIES: Fox, Monday 8:00p (60 minutes)

Drive
Critic Score
Metascore: 52 Metascore out of 100
User Score  
9.4 out of 10
based on 27 reviews
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Starring Nathan Fillion, Kristin Lehman, Mircea Monroe, Riley Smith, Kevin Alejandro, J.D. Pardo, Emma Stone, and Rochelle Aytes

A group of contestants--some of them coerced--compete in an illegal, mysterious, cross-country road race for a $32 million prize.

GENRE(S): Action / Adventure, Drama
CREATED BY: Tim Minear
Ben Queen
FIRST AIR DATE: April 15, 2007

A special two-hour premiere airs Sun 4/15 at 8:00p; the show shifts to Mondays at 8:00p on 4/16.

What The Critics Said

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75
USA Today Robert Bianco
Sunday's two-hour premiere does a solid job of introducing an intriguing, if not exactly convincing, story and some appealing actors.
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75
Entertainment Weekly Jeff Jensen
With some fine-tuning and bolder steering, Drive could be one souped-up storytelling machine.
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75
People Weekly Tom Gliatto
This is Amazing Race of the damned, with something of the open-ended, Pandora's-box mystery of Lost, and it has the potential for out-there adventure. [23 Apr 2007, p.37]
70
Time James Poniewozik
Drive is an audacious, exhilarating enough concept, and its pace and writing snappy enough, to make you want to believe.
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70
Miami Herald Glenn Garvin
With enough intrigue for a spy thriller and enough careening car chases to satisfy the most deranged Fast and Furious cultists, it's an action series that engages your brain as well as your clutch foot.
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70
Seattle Post-Intelligencer Melanie McFarland
This is TV sugar with an IQ and a pulse -- clever, revved-up, often funny, sometimes devastating.
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70
LA Weekly Robert Abele
Drive quickly asserts itself as an enjoyably diverting peel-out — brainless but not stupid, a well-stirred conspiracy/action mixture in keeping with Fox’s no-seat-belts hits 24 and Prison Break.
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70
Chicago Tribune Maureen Ryan
The kind of well-made brain candy that nearly demands that you watch it with a bowl of popcorn.
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63
New York Post Linda Stasi
All in all, brainless fun.
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60
Newark Star-Ledger Alan Sepinwall
The Sunday premiere has a nice mix of thrills, comedy and pathos, but is there a show here?
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60
Hollywood Reporter Ray Richmond
"Drive" is at once exasperating and mesmerizing, utterly ridiculous if you read too much into it but utterly beguiling on its face.
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60
Los Angeles Times Mary McNamara
Much of "Drive" is unabashedly derivative.... Much of it is also unbelievable... But two episodes in, it doesn't really matter.
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60
San Jose Mercury News Charlie McCollum
There's just enough punch to it that you'll want to stick around for Hour Two.
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60
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Rob Owen
It's TV for a generation of attention deficit disordered kids.
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50
Detroit Free Press Mike Duffy
With too many hints of recycled stock characters and formula thriller cliches, "Drive" sputters off the starting line.
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50
Newsday Diane Werts
"Drive" is less the sort of textured character study we've come to expect than an action-packed joy ride. That's not to say you won't wanna hop in. But it's hardly a journey you've gotta take.
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50
Philadelphia Daily News Ellen Gray
The first hour left me a bit cold, but the second, which arrived yesterday, filled in enough of the blanks to take me as far as Monday.
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50
TV Guide Matt Roush
As fast-paced as it is preposterous.
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40
Variety Brian Lowry
It's a fairly impressive cast (of characters, not cars), albeit one left skidding around on a rather slippery premise.
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40
Wall Street Journal Nancy DeWolf Smith
After just one episode, I was interested enough to make a mental note to watch the final one someday, just to see who won and what the race was all about. People with more time on their hands and a tolerance for utter implausibility may choose to make the whole journey.
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40
Philadelphia Inquirer Jonathan Storm
The twist ending of the first episode just might persuade remaining viewers to stick around for hour No. 2.
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38
New York Daily News David Hinckley
The plot strains credulity so much that even that action-happy audience might reject the show.
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30
Boston Globe Matthew Gilbert
No, "Drive" isn't awful... But the show still lacks the charisma that a serialized story requires to keep viewers coming back for more.
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30
Orlando Sentinel Hal Boedeker
Bad timing and bad taste damage Drive. No repair job can salvage this vehicle.
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25
Chicago Sun-Times Doug Elfman
At least "Lost" and "Heroes" give us a sci-fi excuse to forgive illogical stretches of the imagination.
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10
The New York Times Virginia Heffernan
It’s a television series as a prolonged [car] commercial, and it absolutely crosses the line.
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10
Washington Post Tom Shales
Muddled and befuddled from the outset, "Drive" represents a new kind of automotive hybrid -- a scripted treasure hunt designed to look like a reality show, well-stocked with the worst elements of both. It's basically "The Un-Amazing Race."
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What Our Users Said

Vote Now!The average user rating for this tv show is 9.4 (out of 10) based on 274 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Jessica gave it a10:
Will he ever get his wife back???

Chris G. gave it a10:
Please bring Drive back to Fox. Great show!

Mark R. gave it a10:
I loved this show it always kept me on the edge. House and 24 are just plain boring and they suck. Bring it back NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

camilla S. gave it a9:
Bring it back!

M M. gave it a10:
This is such an awesome show! We are so upset it is not on! there was finally a reason to watch tv on Monday! The whole family loves it! Bring it back! Bring it back Now!

James M gave it a10:
I love this show, and was really excited about it. I'm stunned it was taken off the air after only two episodes. Bring it back! Please!

Tammy W gave it a10:
this is the best show ever so bring it back right now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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