Beggars and Choosers

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Season 1
  • Network: SHOWTIME
  • Series Premiere Date: Jun 19, 1999
Season #: 2, 1
Metascore
57

Mixed or average reviews - based on 17 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8 out of 17
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 17
  3. Negative: 6 out of 17

Critic Reviews

  1. The Hollywood Reporter
    Reviewed by: Barry Garron
    Jun 5, 2015
    90
    Sly, amusing and devilishly clever. [16 June 1999]
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  2. Variety
    Reviewed by: Ray Richmond
    Jun 5, 2015
    90
    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.
  3. Houston Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Ann Hodges
    Jun 5, 2015
    83
    Beggars could be a great one, if they don't waste their time going for sex jokes. [17 June 1999, p.1]
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  5. Philadelphia Inquirer
    Reviewed by: Jonathan Storm
    Jun 5, 2015
    80
    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]
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  6. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Howard Rosenberg
    Jun 5, 2015
    80
    Enjoyably witty.
  7. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Tom Shales
    Jun 5, 2015
    80
    Probably the savviest savage satire of the TV business since Paddy Chayefsky's barnstormer "Network" in 1976. [19 June 1999, p.C01]
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  8. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: David Bianculli
    Jun 5, 2015
    75
    The good news is, Beggars and Choosers has plenty of premise, and plenty of targets for satire. [18 June 1999, p.149]
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  9. Time
    Reviewed by: Ginia Bellafante
    Jul 1, 2013
    70
    Worth watching.