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Positive:
8
Mixed:
3
Negative:
6
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Critic Reviews
Jun 5, 2015
Season 1 Review:
Sly, amusing and devilishly clever. [16 June 1999]
Jun 5, 2015
Season 1 Review:
Beggars has the earmarks of a savage gem in its own right, slashing as it does sacred cows and spoofing TV's executive culture with wickedly sophisticated abandon. It's the best kind of farce in that, like "Sanders," it keeps reality percolating just underneath the surface while nearly always defying expectations.
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Jun 5, 2015
Season 1 Review:
Beggars could be a great one, if they don't waste their time going for sex jokes. [17 June 1999, p.1]
Jun 5, 2015
Season 1 Review:
Like The Larry Sanders Show, Beggars and Choosers makes riotous and cutting fun of network television and will be a hit in Los Angeles, but it also has a humanity and warm humor that should appeal to folks who don't work in showbiz. [17 June 1999, p.E01]
Jun 5, 2015
Jun 5, 2015
Season 1 Review:
Probably the savviest savage satire of the TV business since Paddy Chayefsky's barnstormer "Network" in 1976. [19 June 1999, p.C01]
Jun 5, 2015
Season 1 Review:
The good news is, Beggars and Choosers has plenty of premise, and plenty of targets for satire. [18 June 1999, p.149]
Jul 1, 2013
Jun 5, 2015
Season 1 Review:
If you watched "The Larry Sanders Show," you'll find that Beggars and Choosers is weak tea. [18 June 1999, p.E-10]
Jun 4, 2015
Season 1 Review:
The problem with Beggars and Choosers is that it's all too familiar, and too safe. It relies on a generic cynicism about the media, seemingly unaware that 23 years after "Network," we fully understand the ironies inherent in the TV industry. [19 June 1999, p.A14]
Jun 5, 2015
Season 1 Review:
Beggars and Choosers has moments of high laughter and inside-y insight. Ultimately, though, it's a downer that dwells more on the cliches than the truths. [17 June 1999, p.59]
Jun 5, 2015
Season 1 Review:
A dull, plodding and predictable letdown. Apart from showing us some very lovely breasts, it squanders the freedom of pay-cable by going for obvious gags and even more obvious plot developments. [17 June 1999, p.55]
Jun 5, 2015
Season 1 Review:
Everything else that's supposed to be a shock is telegraphed well in advance. Everything meant to surprise falls hopelessly flat. [18 June 1999, p.44]
Jun 5, 2015
Season 1 Review:
[A] sad-sack parody. [18 June 1999, p.F4]
Jun 4, 2015
Season 1 Review:
It pulls its punches and takes cheap shots. [19 June 1999, p.1C]
Jun 5, 2015
Season 1 Review:
Tasteless. [18 June 1999, p.12E]
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