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Critic Reviews
May 16, 2016
Season 1 Review:
This is the longest leap of imagination TV viewers have ever been asked to make, and at first the chasm may look wider than the Grand Canyon. It's a magnificent optical illusion. Your chances of bridging the gap are actually quite good, but it may take more than one try. [26 Sep 1990, p.E1]
May 16, 2016
Season 1 Review:
It's fresh, invigorating and one of the true highlights of the new season. ... Even without the score and choreography, "Cop Rock" is a compelling, well-acted police series that indeed does (as some of its critics charge) echo Bochco's late, great "Hill Street Blues," almost as if he meant it as a homage to his own work.
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May 16, 2016
Season 1 Review:
This is not the most seamless pilot of the season, or the most enjoyable. But nobody whets the appetite for more as well as Bochco. "Cop Rock" is the most exciting program of the fall season. [26 Sep 1990, p.47]
May 16, 2016
Season 1 Review:
So bizarre it must be seen to be disbelieved. [17 Sep 1990, p.D1]
May 16, 2016
Season 1 Review:
"Cop Rock" is less innovation than next logical step (some might even say overdue step) for an increasingly music-conscious medium. [26 Sep 1990, p.1C]
May 16, 2016
Season 1 Review:
As a cop show, it gets down with all the gamy fervor you'd expect from Bochco. ... But as a rock musical, it reeks - of awkwardness, to be sure, but also of an audacious recklessness, at its best exploring a fresh canvas of raucous absurdism or emotionalism. It challenges and sometimes violates your expectations, but more important, it entertains. [26 Sep 1990, p.1D]
May 16, 2016
Season 1 Review:
Even when the transition from music to drama seems abrupt, or the staging of a number a bit too prosaic, "Cop Rock" has the audaciousness and energy of a true original, plus moments of brilliance that are almost blinding. [26 Sep 1990, p.C1]
May 16, 2016
Season 1 Review:
This is as slick as prime-time gets, a clever amalgam of TV drama and
Broadway musical. ... Still, it seems a shame that so much writing, acting and musical talent is being devoted to such tired and simplistic polemics. [26 Sep 1990]
May 16, 2016
Season 1 Review:
Certain scenes are powerful, even exhilarating. Others don't work at all. [23 Sep 1990]
May 16, 2016
Season 1 Review:
Cop Rock is neither a realistic police drama nor a convincing musical. It's an experiment that's rarely arresting. [26 Sep 1990, p.D1]
May 16, 2016
Jun 7, 2013
Season 1 Review:
The songs in the pilot weren't top-notch [Randy] Newman — if you heard them on one of his albums, you'd think he had lost his touch. And if a songwriter as gifted as Newman can't redeem Bochco's concept, how will any of the other, probably lesser, talents that Bochco will employ on future episodes fare any better? It's too bad, because without the music, Cop Rock is a solid cop show.
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Jul 12, 2013
Season 1 Review:
I don't like safe TV. I admire anyone who tries to experiment. But "Cop Rock" doesn't work. [25 Sep 1990]
May 16, 2016
Season 1 Review:
By the time the show ended, I disliked it a lot, but I kept an open mind. ... I watched it a second time. And a third time. I now believe I can praise Bochco and ABC for trying to do something different and, at the same time, say that "Cop Rock" is a bomb of major proportions. [17 Sep 1990, p.1D]
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