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Positive:
8
Mixed:
6
Negative:
13
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Critic Reviews
Apr 18, 2014
Season 1 Review:
The procedural elements of the medical drama hum along nicely, but it's Reilly's performance outside the operating room that makes this show worth watching. [28 Apr 2014]
Apr 18, 2014
Season 1 Review:
Ms. Reilly, who is otherwise appealing, brings an all-too-steady intensity to the role of Catherine--a kind that makes it hard to tell, on occasion, whether the doctor is on her medication or off it. That aside, and despite some madly improbable adventures in the hospital's brain-surgery unit, creator Amy Holden Jones and team have delivered a Black Box whose content is both smart and seductive.
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Apr 15, 2014
Season 1 Review:
The exposition-packed pilot at times resembles Rob Corddry's medical spoof Childrens Hospital. [18/25 Apr 2014, p.102]
Apr 24, 2014
Season 1 Review:
Reilly, who is British but who has a convincing American accent, is a sturdy lead. She nicely holds her own in her confrontational scenes with Redgrave. She projects an intelligence that is essential to her role, and in her manic scenes--dancing alone on a balcony ledge or becoming hypersexual--she manages to keep from sliding into full-on caricature. But the writing is too often lazy.
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Apr 22, 2014
Season 1 Review:
With lame flashbacks (her mother really wanted to kill herself--just you watch her say it, repeatedly) and crazy-people re-enactments, Black Box is just beyond silly. Add in Reilly’s ill-fitting performance and a need to spin around like a ballerina--free from those restrictive pills!--and you’ve got a recipe for never wanting anyone to find this Black Box let alone watch it.
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