- Network: NBC
- Series Premiere Date: Oct 2, 2014
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Walsh is a fantastic actress with a wide range of talents, including comedy, but none of them were on display here. While there is potential in the concept of a respected judge on the bench who is a hard-partying reprobate in her personal life, NBC failed to find it in this dud.
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Bad Judge is a bad show, though it has a pretty solid cast.
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What you're left with is a show that reeks of too many cooks, and one Walsh seems ill-equipped to save.
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A premiere that has almost no laughs at all.
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The pilot is not that funny as it trades in predictable gags about a woman who's competent at the office but a mess in her personal life.
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Until the show figures out how to make sitcom slapstick and inner-beauty melodrama work, it’s kind of a mess.
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It’s trite, boring, has almost no movement or believability and, outside of Walsh’s legs, has not one thing to recommend.
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A toxic concoction of smarm and schmaltz. ... Bad Judge is the sort of bad TV show that makes you despair of the future of comedy.
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Walsh’s gifts--put to great use recently on “Fargo”--aren’t the only ones going to waste. Ryan Hansen as an expert medical witness and the judge’s booty-call-who-wants-more, and Ryan McPartlin as a dim-witted fireman, are given little to work with. No matter what the crime, no TV viewer should be sentenced to watch Bad Judge.
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Yes, Walsh’s Judge Rebecca Wright is an unapologetic party gal, and a self-described “workaholic freakshow.” Yet in the reworked premiere--which has managed to make the show inoffensive, but not good--she’s not even really that bad.
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It keeps resorting to broad gags and dopey jokes, and, just to mix things up, every so often it lunges at sincerity. None of it lands, unfortunately.
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The original Bad Judge pilot wasn't all that funny, but a show with the guts (and the appropriate channel placement) to go full "Bad Santa" with her as the lead could work very well. Instead, Bad Judge has been noted into oblivion. She's no longer quite so bad, but she's also not anything else. She's just... there.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 19 out of 36
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Mixed: 5 out of 36
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Negative: 12 out of 36
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