EPISODE
SEASON
Beauty and the Beast - Season 1
Beautiful homicide detective Catherine Chandler falls in love with an ex-soldier who goes into hiding from the secret government organization because his condition leads him to turn into a beast when he becomes enraged.
18 December 1979, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
25 May 1970, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
4 January 1999, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
22 January 1968, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
7 May 1985, Los Angeles, California, USA
October 11, 2012
If Beauty and the Beast isn't the worst new show of the fall (and it probably is), it's certainly the silliest.
October 11, 2012
Absent a compelling core romance, and absent a passably beast-like beast, you're left with a sodden police procedural.
October 11, 2012
Beauty and the Beast won't hurt all that much to watch, but the dialogue and plot stretches can add up to a lot of little ows.
October 11, 2012
The pilot fails to offer even a kernel of hope.
October 11, 2012
It's such a natural it's downright devilish. Or, if you will, beastly.
October 11, 2012
Kreuk and Ryan keep their faces straight and their bodies hard, which is what CW shows are mostly about, and all in all, it could be a lot dumber than it is.
October 11, 2012
I'm not sure I have the words to describe just how bad The CW's Beauty and the Beast is. I've only been doing this for 22 1/2 years, after all.
October 11, 2012
There's no scene-to-scene logic, just looking and yearning and styling to sad rock music.
October 11, 2012
It's entertaining enough.
