Bill Cosby: Far From Finished
Comedy Central | Release Date: November 23, 2013
CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
75
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 11 Critic Reviews
Positive:
9
Mixed:
2
Negative:
0

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
NewsdayVerne GayNov 20, 2013
Season 1 Review: It's homage of the highest form, but comedy of the highest form, too. Cos quite obviously is far from finished. Read full review
80
Los Angeles TimesRobert LloydNov 25, 2013
Season 1 Review: There are also familiar dialogues between the brain and the body (golden) and a bit of hand-in-the-Jello-bowl mugging (not so golden), but all in all, the special lives up to its name. Neither finished, nor diminished. Read full review
80
The New York TimesNeil GenzlingerNov 22, 2013
Season 1 Review: Just when the crowd thinks it knows where he’s going, he jerks the string and sends things in a different direction, to great effect. It’s a gimmick that takes a refined sense of timing and a mastery of misdirection, and Mr. Cosby, who is 76, shows that he still has both. Read full review
80
TV Guide MagazineMatt RoushNov 22, 2013
Season 1 Review: Cosby is in fine form as he mugs with that expressive face and riffs in his distinctive voice on his favorite topics of love, marriage and family. His timing is masterful. Read full review
80
New York Magazine (Vulture)Matt Zoller SeitzNov 19, 2013
Season 1 Review: Far From Finished isn’t an instant classic on the order of Bill Cosby: Himself or his stand-up albums Revenge, Why Is There Air?, and Wonderfulness. It’s more like a pencil sketch by a master painter or a late film by Woody Allen or Clint Eastwood. Read full review
80
VarietyBrian LowryNov 19, 2013
Season 1 Review: There’s admittedly nostalgia in seeing Cosby perform again after a 30-year TV standup special hiatus, but he still delivers some of the old wonderfulness. Read full review
75
New York Daily NewsDavid HinckleyNov 21, 2013
Season 1 Review: He shuffles onstage more slowly than he used to. But he’s still Cosby the comedian, and to underscore that point, he’s even on the same subject where he left off whenever you last saw him. Read full review
75
Entertainment WeeklyClark CollisNov 19, 2013
Season 1 Review: Without the benefit of Bill Cosby's timing and avuncularity, the spouseribbing gags featured in the comedy legend's first televised concert in 30 years would come across as simply mean-spirited. Read full review
70
Washington PostHank StueverNov 22, 2013
Season 1 Review: What we get for most of the show’s 90 minutes, is a mostly funny, often charming and occasionally unsettling account of a man whose diet and whereabouts are under his wife Camille’s constant surveillance. Read full review
58
The A.V. ClubJosh ModellNov 20, 2013
Season 1 Review: He’s still funny and charming--but also, given that the stand-up world has grown up around him, dated and occasionally dull. Far From Finished couldn’t be safer. Read full review
50
New York PostMichael StarrNov 21, 2013
Season 1 Review: Cosby’s gentle humor is a bit long-in-the-tooth. Read full review
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