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Positive:
5
Mixed:
9
Negative:
4
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Critic Reviews
May 20, 2014
Season 1 Review:
Clueless pulls off the balancing act of being bright and sophisticated while remaining almost squeaky-clean. [20 Sept 1996, p.1E]
May 20, 2014
Season 1 Review:
Blanchard is lovely and plays Cher so well that you'll never miss Silverstone. Many of the key supporting actors from the movie reprise their roles in the TV series, but the chief saving grace is the clever script. [20 Sept 1996, p.3E]
May 20, 2014
Season 1 Review:
Lighthearted lessons are learned all around. It's all very sweet. [20 Sept 1996, p.10E]
May 20, 2014
Season 1 Review:
Yet tonight's pilot retains the supporting cast and all else that made Amy Heckerling's film a delight, especially its unexpectedly tangy one-liners and eye-candy production values. This sitcom looks as if it were shot through Kool-Aid, and is, in sips, just as refreshing. [20 Sept 1996, p.D10]
May 20, 2014
Season 1 Review:
Rachel Blanchard plays Cher (Emma), and while she still isn't up to Alicia Silverstone's standard for merging self-involvement and philanthropism she does a much better job with the new, stronger material, tonight dispensing bad advice in a guest stint as her school paper's Ann Landers. [20 Sept 1996, p.1]
May 20, 2014
Season 1 Review:
Fans of the movie should beware. Tonight's opener feels like a vague replay of the film. [20 Sept 1996, p.E1]
May 20, 2014
Season 1 Review:
The painfully blank Blanchard may look like Silverstone, but she has none of her flair or personality. It's like watching a copy of a copy of a copy. All she does is make you appreciate how good Silverstone was in the original. [20 Sept 1996, p.28]
May 20, 2014
Season 1 Review:
It's slight, but sweet. Maybe that's all that's necessary. [20 Sept 1996, p.3D]
May 20, 2014
Season 1 Review:
It's unfortunate that while Clueless looks fabulous, much of the fizzy comic energy of the film's bright teenybopper satire has been lost. [20 Sept 1996, p.9D]
May 20, 2014
May 20, 2014
Season 1 Review:
Blanchard was witless and charmless in the original -- and so far unaired -- pilot program. But her performance as pampered Cher has improved in "As If a Girl's Reach Should Exceed Her Grasp,' tonight's debut episode. [20 Sept 1996, p.39]
May 20, 2014
Season 1 Review:
Cute, but frothy, and not nearly as charming as it thinks it is (or as the movie was). Rachel Blanchard tries as Cher, but she's no Alicia Silverstone...This one could grow on you, but I doubt it. [20 Sept 1996, p.8E]
May 20, 2014
Season 1 Review:
The insights, the connections to Jane Austen's Emma are lost in this watered-down version. As if! [19 Sept 1996, p.1C]
May 20, 2014
Season 1 Review:
Clueless is meant to be a spoof of spoiled and petulant teen-age girls. But even at that, Clueless comes up, like, seriously shallow. [20 Sept 1996, p.E-6]
May 20, 2014
Season 1 Review:
So way unfunny and charmless...A big reason is that Blanchard hasn't nearly the glow or acting skill of Silverstone, whose spark--that aura of huggable sweet innocence shining through the superficiality--isn't transferred to the small screen. Blanchard blends with her pastels instead of standing out.
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May 20, 2014
Season 1 Review:
This is lame-brained - if relatively harmless - junk. [20 Sept 1996]
May 20, 2014
Season 1 Review:
A weak situation comedy that has little situation or comedy and basically brokers in silliness and bosh. [20 Sept 1996]
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