From IGN:

• The Listener: I’m An Adult Now Review
  “After watching the premiere episode, I’m an Adult Now, I was reminded more of the cult CBS series Early Edition than of any superhero programming” Read more.

From TV Squad:

• The Listener – An early look
  “The producers of The Listener, a new NBC semi-supernatural drama created in Canada, seemingly spent too much time “listening” to moody, do-gooder predecessors such as Medium or Ghost Whisperer. The end result is just a little too familiar to generate much excitement.” Read more.

From Ginia Bellafante of the New York Times (second item):

• Reading Minds, Healing Millionaires
  “The Listener is plagued by the same gloomy lack of urgency that afflicts Flashpoint, the S.W.A.T.-team series also with a CTV lineage, on CBS. What’s happening to Canadian television?” Read more.

From Daniel Carlson of the Hollywood Reporter:

• TV Review: The Listener
  “The problem is that Toronto is used as a location substitute for everywhere because it doesn’t look like anywhere, which means that setting a drama series there — even one as fanciful as Listener — saddles the story with an unshakable tone of alienation. Distributed overseas via Fox International Channels, Listener is a serviceable supernatural drama with legitimate narrative potential that’s undercut by its visually bland presentation and geographically nonspecific execution. ” Read more.

From Rick Porter at Zap2It:

• ‘The Listener’ review
  “The Listener will be the last drama to air at 10 p.m. Thursdays on NBC for a long time. That’s not the show’s fault — it’s just holding the fort till Jay Leno comes along in September.” Read more.

From John Doyle of the Globe and Mail:

• The Listener is nice, but bland
  “This brings me to The Listener (CTV, 10 p.m.; NBC, Thursday, 9 p.m.) which is awfully nice but unbelievably bland. This is a pity, because it’s the second Canadian-made series in recent times to make the breakthrough and land on a U.S. network in prime time.” Read more.

From the New York Post:

• WISH YOU WERE HEAR
  “For reasons too mysterious for the viewers to know — in the first two episodes, at any rate — said telepathy man keeps his extraordinary gift completely secret. Why? We don’t know, but seriously, with a talent like that, he could get his own TV show. Instead, the guy works as an EMS paramedic who rides around Toronto all day with an idiotic partner, aka ‘the comic relief.'” Read more.