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Big Shots matches affecting characters with genuinely funny stories and dialogue.
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A light-hearted, comedic drama about four wealthy guys with women troubles and work problems.
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One of television’s rare examples of successful farce.
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Shots has some potential. The leads - Michael Vartan ("Alias"), Dylan McDermott ("The Practice"), Joshua Malina ("The West Wing"), Christopher Titus ("Titus")--have chemistry, and there are some funny lines and situations.
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Jon Harmon Feldman’s naughty script doesn’t develop much chemistry among the guys.
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Terrific cast, some fun, but overall the writing is often as dead as Walter.
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Big Shots isn't brilliant. And despite that attractive, well-matched male ensemble, the so-so series premiere lacks sufficient creative zing.
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Big Shots tries way too hard to be shocking and raunchy. The actors resemble kiddies at school trying to impress one another with the latest naughty word learned in gym class.
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The hunk quotient is pretty high. But that doesn't overcome the fact that the show is dumb and uninvolving.
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It suffers from too much gloom and glam.
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The problem with Big Shots is that the men don't sound like anyone at all, male or female.
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We're all for handsome guys exploring their feminine side, but we want posters of them holding babies, not being them.
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When all is said and done, the series feels less like Wisteria Lane than "Stand By Me" channeled through Danielle Steel.
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The worst offense is that it seems to have been pitched as the male version of you-know-what without any real interest in speaking to the notion of what it means to be a man or, if you'd like, what men think, feel and say.
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Big Shots is a big waste.
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It's just awful.
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Big Shots, an obnoxious waste of time that's likely the season's worst new show.
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Feldman has created a quartet of rich guys so insufferable, self-centered and whiny that they make the men of feminist masterwork "The Golden Notebook," or even "The Nanny Diaries," look positively heroic.
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Big Shots is an extremely unflattering showcase for these actors, particularly McDermott, whose overacting as the show’s bad boy puts the mug in smug.
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There's nothing funny about tonight's Big Shots.
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No matter where the goofy "Desperate Housewives" goes, it's not into the toilet, which is where Big Shots spends its time both literally and figuratively.
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I'd prefer you'd forget that one, and in coming years, I'll bet stars Dylan McDermott, Christopher Titus and Michael Vartan will hope to forget it, too. It's not worth your time or theirs.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 77 out of 90
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Mixed: 0 out of 90
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Negative: 13 out of 90
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TorrenceM.Jan 26, 2008
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LindaK.Jan 18, 2008You get a good show and then u take it away.
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TerriDJan 17, 2008