"Associated Press" critic Fred Rothenberg echoed the sentiment, writing ""Whiz Kids" does not make a whimper on the sex-and-violence scale, yet it may be more dangerous to children than anything on television this season. ur adolescent heroes – sort of Hardy Boys high on silicon chips – engage, willy-nilly, in assorted illegal activities: computer tampering, driving without licenses and grave-robbing. Even though some of this law-breaking may be construed as adolescent pranks, and all of it is done in the name of crime-fighting, none of it serves well as TV role model behavior."