 The review aggregator website Metacritic calculated a score of 77 from a possible 100 for season one, based on 27 reviews, making it the third-best reviewed show of the 2006 fall season.This score includes four 100% scores (from the "New York Daily News", "San Francisco Chronicle", "Chicago Sun-Times" and "People Weekly").Brian Lowry, who had written one of the three poor reviews Metacritic tallied for the show, recanted his negative review in a year-end column for the trade magazine "Variety", after watching the full season.