ABC's Reef Break is wildly unserious, making it refreshing summer TV

Variety

"Unmoored from reason or shame and buoyed by its willingness to be as silly as it wants to be, the new ABC drama Reef Break is a wildly unserious piece of television," Daniel D'Addario says of the Poppy Montgomery-led crime drama. "In that, it’s a bit refreshing — a network series that embraces its network-iness, that has absolutely no ambition beyond evoking a smile. Reef Break, about a thief-turned-fixer who finds herself involved in fighting crime on a Pacific idyll, is not particularly distinguished, but as an example of a particular sort of television-making, it’s better-done than it might be." ALSO: Reef Break fully embraces its escapist identity, dispensing with the pesky exposition and logic.