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Positive:
7
Mixed:
13
Negative:
7
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Critic Reviews
Nov 21, 2019
Season 1 Review:
It boasts an appealing star, a colorful ensemble cast, clever writing and no shortage of laughs. It is, in short, what good character comedy should be. [23 March 2000]
Nov 21, 2019
Season 1 Review:
The comedy here is anything but “The Sopranos” lite or neo-"Barney Miller,” much of its success resulting from Perkins’ easy, unmannered way with her likably nasty character. Although comedy begins with writing, Perkins doesn’t need much of a line to be funny, whether spinning sarcasm or lamenting being “up to my ears in hookers.”
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Nov 21, 2019
Season 1 Review:
Battery Park shines brighter, thanks to punchier writing and a better ensemble. But it, too, suffers from sitcomitis: the urge to give viewers another version of something they've already seen. [23 March 2000]
Nov 21, 2019
Season 1 Review:
Battery Park isn't awful. Goldberg is too skilled at putting together slick ensemble comedies for that. It actually does click some of the time. But it's not quite charged up to the level of "Barney Miller," the gold standard for this type of show. [23 March 2000, p.49]
Nov 21, 2019
Season 1 Review:
Bland at first but better next week, this new spring collection of plainclothes cops has an outside chance to fit in and maybe even wear well. [23 March 2000]
Nov 21, 2019
Season 1 Review:
Not one of the performers looks like anything beyond a pretty young performer biding his or her time until a better break comes along. [23 March 2000]
Nov 21, 2019
Season 1 Review:
Although terribly familiar in design and execution, Battery Park does manage stretches when it amiably spins along in a Big Appleish "Spin City" sort of way. Goldberg's touch hasn't completely deserted him. [23 March 2000, p.6E]
Nov 21, 2019
Season 1 Review:
The mostly forgettable "Battery Park"? It's strictly DOA -- Dull On Arrival. [23 March 2000]
Nov 21, 2019
Season 1 Review:
If you find that humorous -- and the annoyingly cranked-up laugh
track sure did -- then you're set. If not, well, the lines don't
get much better. [23 March 2000]
Nov 21, 2019
Season 1 Review:
It's an attempt to do a 1970s comedy like "Barney Miller" - but without the laughs. [22 March 2000]
Nov 21, 2019
Season 1 Review:
Unfortunately, Battery Park is a precinct I don't care enough about to come back for more. [23 March 2000]
Nov 22, 2019
Season 1 Review:
The comedy is stale; it's as if the writers were trying to make the funniest show of 1982. [23 March 2000, p.1E]
Nov 21, 2019
Season 1 Review:
The usually reliable producer Gary David Goldberg ("Spin City," "Brooklyn Bridge," "Family Ties") has imitated the props, plot devices and characters from the original ("Barney Miller"), but duplicating wit, mood and casting chemistry have proven more elusive.[23 March 2000, p.E-5]
Nov 21, 2019
Nov 21, 2019
Season 1 Review:
The feel is "Barney Miller," but the jokes and characters aren't. Gary David Goldberg, of "Family Ties" and "Spin City" fame, is behind this sitcom, so it's fair to hope for and expect very good things...In the case of this pilot, though, you don't get them. [23 March 2000]
Nov 21, 2019
Season 1 Review:
The real pathos is supplied by the network that has the gall to recycle this rickety relic in the first place. [23 March 2000, p.C01]
Nov 21, 2019
Season 1 Review:
It's aimless, stereotypical and runs out of juice pretty fast. [23 March 2000]
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