Three Rivers

Los Angeles TimesMary McNamara

Three Rivers seems to trust the drama of its subject matter, the appeal of its characters and the talent of its cast enough to go gently into this Sunday night.

Chicago Sun-TimesPaige Wiser

The cases are inventive, and the acting is low key. Entertainmentwise, the series is nothing special.

Slant MagazineKatherine Stevens

With run-of-the-mill storylines and likeable doctors, Three Rivers is neither adrenaline-pumping, like NBC's Trauma, nor genre-busting, like House. Instead, the show appears to be a friendly study in hard work and good manners.

Miami HeraldGlenn Garvin

As assembly-line products go, Three Rivers isn't half bad.

Philadelphia InquirerJonathan Storm

These medical shows aren't brain surgery, but most of them are dead on arrival anyway. Three Rivers shows up at least with a healthy pulse.

VarietyBrian Lowry

This is a template as well-worn as "Marcus Welby, M.D.," albeit with greater visual style and an accelerated pace--as well as an underlying "pay it forward" message about organ donation.

USA TodayRobert Bianco

Three Rivers tries to work around the failings of its script through quick cuts and colored gels, but they're a vain attempt to build excitement where none exists.

Pittsburgh Post-GazetteRob Owen

It's not great, it's not awful. It's an adequate, conventional CBS-y medical drama about transplant surgeons set at Pittsburgh's fictional Three Rivers Regional Medical Center.

San Francisco ChronicleTim Goodman

It's not a gratuitous failure and makes enough sense to see to the end.

The New York TimesMike Hale

At this point, everything about it feels generic.

PopMattersLesley Smith

Unlike crime dramas, when the body is usually cleanly dead, by its very nature Three Rivers lingers on the processes of death and near-death at both ends of the story. Just how many poignant farewells can an audience take?

NewsdayVerne Gay

Three Rivers is a masterful send-up of old medical TV show conventions, dating back to the '50s, with a parade of cliches so obviously and hilariously inane that you will laugh until your side aches.

Philadelphia Daily NewsEllen Gray

Three Rivers plays like a show that was put together in one made up of transplant advocates.

TV GuideMatt Roush

The supporting cast is diverse, but uniformly bland. Three Rivers isn’t as laughably awful as NBC’s "Mercy," but it’s possibly more forgettable.

New York Daily NewsDavid Hinckley

For viewers, it's almost impossible to stay awake.

Newark Star-LedgerAlan Sepinwall

The material is so inherently dramatic that there are occasional moments where Three Rivers is affecting despite itself. But it's also a danger sign that one of the premiere episode's story lines has absolutely nothing to do with a patient in need of an organ.

Boston GlobeMatthew Gilbert

Sure, the show will raise awareness of organ donation; but it is certainly not going to raise the profile of good TV drama. Casting and nuanced writing might have helped, but neither are in evidence here.

Hollywood ReporterRandee Dawn

perhaps a segment of CBS' audience will enjoy the sedative-like effects of Three Rivers, which injects sincerity and competence back into the profession with such unabashed ease that it's possible to overlook that this is utter drivel.

New York PostLinda Stasi

Daniel Henney is the new handsomest man on TV and it's a pleasure to watch him walk the halls in scrubs. But even he can't make me believe what Three Rivers is selling. For that, I'd need a brain transplant.