From Joel Rubinoff of the Waterloo Record:

• MVP: Proudly Canadian, anything but desperate
  “CBC drama skates between melodrama, hot sex with realism and sweetness.” Read more.

From Alex Strachan of CanWest Media Services:

• Fine Tuning
  “It’s a good-looking, homegrown TV drama that won’t win any awards, but succeeds at what it sets out to do: entertain on a superficial level, and make one forget one’s troubles for an hour or so.” Read more.

From the Toronto Star:

• Hot box: TV to talk about
  “9 p.m. MVP, CBC’s all-Canadian take on Footballers’ Wives, debuts, somewhat ironically, opposite a fresh episode of Friday Night Lights (NBC and Global) and the original Friday Night Lights movie on MuchMusic.” Read more.

From Denis McGrath at Dead Things on Sticks:

• Can MVP make it to the third period?
  “For what it gets right, MVP is a positive step forward for CBC. Let the stick-in-the-muds wail and cluck — soapy fun on Friday night is just what the Doctor ordered for our sickly national broadcaster.” Read more.

Patrick White of the Globe and Mail ties MVP to real-life sports gossip:

• Gossipmongers going online for the real thing
  “Hunger for the scandalous details of the lives of hockey stars is the fuel behind a new CBC drama. But gossipmongers – especially women – are going online for the real thing.” Read more.