From John Doyle of the Globe and Mail:

• Motive: A police procedural whose intentions are fuzzy at best
  As it turns out, Motive is slick, a bit silly, very stylish and disappointingly predictable. All that promotional money has been spent on a middling-good network-style series that is just a shade shy of a total misfire. Read more.

From Alex Strachan of Postmedia News:

• TV weekend: Motive, Ripper Street
  It is drizzly and grey on a high-school football field in Vancouver when Motive begins. The stands are packed with cheering supporters, and the players are running their patterns on the field, blocking and tackling to waves of raucous applause. A high-school marching band waits its cue, and the drummer — the de facto loser — is pressed up against the stands at the back, where he’s being showered with abuse from drunken louts in the crowd. The picture freezes and a caption appears: “The Killer.” Read more.

From the Toronto Star:

• TV Tonight: Five worth watching Sunday, Feb. 3
  Speaking of detectives and post-Super Bowl slots, CTV debuts its new crime drama Motive. Viewers learn at the start of each episode whodunit, but gritty Det. Angie Flynn (Kristin Lehman) and her partner Oscar Vega (Louis Ferreira) must piece together the why. New Kid on the Block Joey McIntyre guests in the premiere as a high school teacher found murdered (CTV at 10). Read more.

From Murtz and Inside Pulse:

Interview With Motive‘s Kristin Lehman & Lauren Holly

Motive, CTV – “Creeping Tom”
Detective Angie Flynn (Kristin Lehman) is introduced as a street-smart, intuitive homicide detective whose teenaged son, Manny (Cameron Bright), looks out for her as much as she takes care of him. MOTIVE’s first victim is a well-liked, karaoke-singing, high school science teacher (Joey McIntyre, DANCING WITH THE STARS) who is found murdered in his bedroom. A home invasion gone wrong seems too perfect for Detective Flynn and her partner, Detective Oscar Vega (Louis Ferreira). They follow a plausible lead to an adulterous wife and the motive of a crime of passion, but Angie’s second sense points her in the direction of one of the dead teacher’s students, a serial thief known only as “The Creeper”.

From Mark Leiren-Young of the Vancouver Sun:

• Hollywood North: Bright acts and Brave acts
  Bright plays Manny Flynn, the son of Detective Angie Flynn, played by series star Kristin Lehman (The Killing). “I pop in every once in a while to lighten the show up with some son-mother drama, just like any son would do.” Read more.

From Alex Strachan on Postmedia News:

• B.C.’s Kristin Lehman stars in the Vancouver-based drama Motive
  Eleven of the first 13 episodes are in the can, and Motive is now in the stretch run before its planned end-of-season production in mid-February. Lehman is tired — she’s handling the chores of raising a young son while holding down the lead role in an hour-long weekly crime drama — but the rigours of day-to-day TV production are nothing new to her. Read more.

From Bill Brioux of the Canadian Press:

• Unconventional drama ‘Motive’ gives ID of victim, killer early in each episode
  Viewers may think they’ve seen it all when it comes to crime dramas on TV. A new Canadian series, however, provides one of the biggest shocks of all — giving away the identity of both the victim and the killer in the first few minutes. Read more.