A Man Called Hawk

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Season 1
  • Network: ABC
  • Series Premiere Date: Jan 28, 1989
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  1. Positive: 1 out of 6
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 6
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  1. Newsday
    Reviewed by: Marvin Kitman
    Aug 7, 2014
    80
    The new show is very violent, in bursts, in between all the poetry and music. I don't know why, but violence bothers me less when its mixed with lyrical scripts like in "A Man Called Hawk." It's like Shakespeare on TV. ... Any script becomes Shakespeare when Brooks gets his vocal cords around it; pearly words float out of the TV. [27 Jan 1989]
  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]
  3. 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.
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