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Positive:
8
Mixed:
7
Negative:
0
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Critic Reviews
Apr 20, 2014
Season 1 Review:
There's a vibrancy here, and a clarity, that we haven't seen in network sitcoms in ages. The way ABC's "Lost" reconfigured dramatic storytelling, Showtime's Barbershop so invigorates the humor format that we hate to call it a sitcom. It's entirely its own animal. And that's evolution of a kind everyone can get behind. [12 Aug 2005, p.]
Apr 19, 2014
Season 1 Review:
It’s raucously funny in its own right and in its own way. If the first season’s remaining nine episodes are anywhere near as laugh-out-loud hilarious as tonight’s opener, Barbershop: The Series will be nothing less than Showtime’s strongest entry yet in the comedy field. [14 Aug 2005, p.J1]
Apr 16, 2014
Season 1 Review:
Barbershop is inventively edited, consistently funny and decidedly not for kids. [14 Aug 2005, p.3]
Apr 19, 2014
Season 1 Review:
Raucous, bawdily good-natured. [14 Aug 2005]
Apr 20, 2014
Season 1 Review:
Messy, unruly but occasionally quite funny, "Barbershop" doubtless could use a trim here and there, and perhaps a little extra styling. Yet in its unassuming way, the series breezily picks up where the movie and its sequel left off. [12 Aug 2005, p.2]
Apr 20, 2014
Season 1 Review:
What it lacks, unfortunately, is style -- some sense of smart, well-executed, up-to-date design. You can almost see the corners being cut, from the inconsistent casting to the cheap reliance on sex to the blatantly fake back-lot sets that are trying to pass for Chicago. You may not expect originality in a movie transfer, not when familiarity is what's selling the show. But you do expect Barbershop to display enough style of its own to avoid looking like a cheap knockoff.
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