- Network: Peacock
- Series Premiere Date: Sep 5, 2024
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“Fight Night” flirts with a variety of styles — blaxploitation, police procedural, social drama, the buddy-cop movie — which are successful on their own terms but don’t easily cohere. And as the series gets closer to its conclusion, the plot runs farther and farther from the facts, sacrificing historicity and even plausibility for genre-film excitement and culminating with a sting that catapults matters out of the real and into the ridiculous.
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It takes a little too long to get to Cheadle and Hart’s inevitable and ultimately rewarding team up, with the middle episodes lagging as they tread water ahead of the final confrontation. A six-episode order instead of eight might have solved most of this, but the three-episode premiere provides momentum out of the gate.
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At least two or three episodes too long—to the point of raising the question of why the series exists at all. The story it tells is indeed fascinating, but at heart, its intent is to prove that A-list actor and stand-up Kevin Hart has a secret well of dramatic talent. And in that respect, it’s a miss.
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