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Positive:
10
Mixed:
3
Negative:
2
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Critic Reviews
Jun 17, 2015
Season 1 Review:
What And the Band Played On needs more of are not good actors, obviously, but characters who have depth and texture as well as sheen, for, at its worst, And the Band Played On appears to congeal disparate elements into a single gelatin. The AIDS-fighting good guys are so uniformly good and rigidly conventional that they present a sort of monolithically pastel image that undermines their believability.
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Jun 17, 2015
Season 1 Review:
The most discouraging aspect of the film is the fact that we can never latch onto these characters in any warm, intimate or sympathetic way. They stand as ciphers in the larger steely drama. [10 Sept 1993, p.]
Jun 16, 2015
Season 1 Review:
The storytelling is too diffuse. At times, it's a medical mystery, with Matthew Modine the outspoken lead researcher manning an obstacle course of financial and bureaucratic Catch-22s. Other times, it's obvious agitprop targeting an uncaring Reagan administration and, in a devastating character assassination, self-promoting Dr. Robert Gallo (Alan Alda).[10 Sept 1993, p.1D]
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