EPISODE
SEASON
Walker - Season 1
A widowed father returns to Austin after two years, attempting to reconnect with his children, navigate clashes with his family, and find common ground with his new partner, while growing increasingly suspicious of his wife's death.
7 May 1972, Rochester, New York, USA
8 September 1993, Lagos, Nigeria
1 December 1987, Biddeford, Maine, USA
8 January 1981, San Francisco, California, USA
January 15, 2021
With so many characters, there's not as much time for busting up bad guys, so this isn't your grandfather's "Walker." It's clearly The CW's cookie cutter iteration.
January 19, 2021
Gone is Norris and his single emotional on-screen note, primal bloodlust. This time around the role is filled by the hunky and charismatic Jared Padalecki... And his presence alone keeps Walker interesting while it sorts out what it wants to be.
January 20, 2021
The moral grayness of Walker will give the show's writers no end of material, especially since the series seems positioned to be family friendly, moralistic, vaguely Christian and averse to the kind of mayhem [of its predecessor].
January 20, 2021
The worst part of the first episode of this bland retread is just how darn slow and forgettable the whole thing feels by the end credits.
January 18, 2021
Walker is a hokey, old-fashioned cop show, and giving it a slightly woke facelift and putting it on The CW doesn't change that.
January 19, 2021
It's startling to say that this version feels like it's even shallower and more simplistic than the one with the star of Delta Force 2: The Colombian Connection.