A Man Called Hawk

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Season 1
  • Network: ABC
  • Series Premiere Date: Jan 28, 1989
Metascore
45

Mixed or average reviews - based on 6 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 6
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 6
  3. Negative: 2 out of 6

Critic Reviews

  1. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: John J. O'Connor
    Aug 7, 2014
    60
    The title role of the hourlong show is played with insinuating relish by Avery Brooks. ... Now the series ... has to find some scripts worthy of the character.
  2. San Diego Union-Tribune
    Reviewed by: Robert P. Laurence
    Aug 7, 2014
    40
    Previously icy, menacing, aloof and fascinating, [Hawk] is now mostly noise and bluster, a swaggering, gun-toting pontificator, as ready with an aphorism as with a bullet, a "Shaft" rehash. ... Within the context of "Spenser," there was already a cartoonish aspect to the figure of Hawk. Now all restraint has been dropped, and Hawk has become a parody of himself. Brooks has done better work. [27 Jan 1989]
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  3. Miami Herald
    Reviewed by: Steve Sonsky
    Aug 7, 2014
    40
    It's standard fare, not worth staying home for. [26 Jan 1989]
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