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Critic Reviews
Jul 10, 2013
Season 1 Review:
This season's best series. ... It's extremely well-written, and the operating scenes are so realistic that you may cover your eyes. It's life-and-death
drama but leavened with a little dark humor. And it works. [17 Sep 1994]
Jul 10, 2013
Season 1 Review:
An engrossing, emotional drama full of intriguing characters. [15 Sep 1994]
Jul 10, 2013
Season 1 Review:
The characters in "Hope" are slightly more interesting [than those in "ER"]. Even though they are working in a high-powered hospital and have God-like powers, you can see what's going on behind their masks beyond their eyes. [18 Sep 1994]
Jul 10, 2013
Season 1 Review:
By telling one or two stories well, from beginning to end, "Chicago Hope" gets a tighter grip on the viewer's emotions [than "ER"]. [22 Sep 1994]
Jul 10, 2013
Season 1 Review:
It is exciting and involving; its leads are charismatic; and most of all, it feels fresh. [18 Sep 1994]
Jul 10, 2013
Season 1 Review:
Like St. Elsewhere grafted onto L.A. Law, this is in the slick but endangered tradition of ensemble dramas showing heroes on the cutting edge of their vocation while personal lives entangle and unravel. [16 Sep 1994]
Jul 10, 2013
Season 1 Review:
Attains often-sublime lucidity by its second episode. [16 Sep 1994]
Jul 10, 2013
Season 1 Review:
With Chicago Hope, Kelley demonstrates again that he can create memorable characters quickly and plunge them into arresting situations. [17 Sep 1994]
Jul 10, 2013
Season 1 Review:
Chicago Hope is an affecting, involving series solidly anchored by Mr. Patinkin. [18 Sep 1994]
Jul 10, 2013
Season 1 Review:
Elevate[s] the state of TV drama with fine writing, convincing acting and compelling stories. [16 Sep 1994]
Jul 10, 2013
Season 1 Review:
Bristling with promise. [17 Sep 1994]
Jul 10, 2013
Season 1 Review:
Those who have seen "Picket Fences" should have a good idea about what "Hope" offers: moral crisis and guilt trips. [18 Sep 1994]
Jul 10, 2013
Season 1 Review:
Kelley has a great gift for establishing his plots quickly, and for bringing them to powerful conclusions. Like '[L.A.] Law' and '[Picket] Fences,' however, 'Hope' is an oddly self-contained universe -- despite the show's reliance on social issues, it's hard to imagine any of these people actually functioning in the real world. [17 Sep 1994]
Jul 10, 2013
Season 1 Review:
Down deep, however, this is the old, highly workable stuff, tidily refurbished. [12 Sep 1994]
Jul 10, 2013
Season 1 Review:
The doctors of Chicago Hope Hospital, a gleaming surgical palace with all the cutting- edge gizmos, tend to pontificate. [18 Sep 1994]
Jul 10, 2013
Season 1 Review:
Very slick and very shiny, full of impassioned confrontations and noble utterances. [17 Sep 1994]
Jul 10, 2013
Season 1 Review:
Somber and uncompromising. ... Despite its high-powered actors (Adam Arkin and Hector Elizondo also work at this hospital) and highfalutin executive producer, David E. Kelley (Picket Fences, L.A. Law), the show's a storehouse of cliches. [15 Sep 1994]
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