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Critic Reviews
Jul 12, 2013
Season 1 Review:
A work of TV art. ... It's a major, major series - a masterpiece, with great characters. The writing is textured, deep, rich. [26 Apr 1988]
Jul 24, 2014
Season 1 Review:
A mature, beautifully realized piece of drama, it shows little evidence of the neutering, sanitizing process that usually compromises television storytelling. ... "China Beach" is "M*A*S*H" seen through a darker, bloodier lens. [26 Apr 1988]
Jul 24, 2014
Season 1 Review:
Ambitious, adult and sexually sophisticated, another signpost along the road toward increasingly serious, and much more personal television. [26 Apr 1988]
Jul 24, 2014
Season 1 Review:
While fitfully entertaining, not only is "China Beach" derivative, but the series... suffers from a leading lady who is not particularly likable, as well as an overabundance of strained humor and forced-march poignance. [26 Apr 1988]
Jul 24, 2014
Season 1 Review:
The China Beach premiere has its ups and downs. The downs are mostly in its too pat and predictable dramatic choices. It takes the easy road too often in its resolutions. Its bag of storytelling tricks is trite, undermining a greater potential that might have been tapped with less telegraphed, less easy calls. But there is much to admire as well. The acting and characterizations are uniformly splendid. [26 Apr 1988]
Jul 24, 2014
Season 1 Review:
The results are decidedly mixed in tonight's two-hour pilot, but this is a fairly serious effort that succeeds in stimulating interest because it tries to look at the war from a feminine (feminist?) perspective. [26 Apr 1988]
Jun 7, 2013
Season 4 Review:
China Beach's idea of switching back and forth in time might finally have given the series some true originality and style, but the device hasn't been smoothly executed; even devotees of the series have complained that these days, the shows tend to be confusing, choppy, and annoying.
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