Gideon's Crossing

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Season 1
  • Network: ABC
  • Series Premiere Date: Oct 10, 2000
Metascore
78

Generally favorable reviews - based on 27 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 23 out of 27
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 27
  3. Negative: 0 out of 27

Critic Reviews

  1. Orlando Sentinel
    Reviewed by: Hal Boedeker
    Aug 9, 2014
    60
    Though slickly photographed, Gideon's Crossing is a rickety star vehicle. Braugher doesn't have much support from the musicians, the writer or the supporting actors. [10 Oct 2000, p.E1]
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  2. Cleveland Plain Dealer
    Reviewed by: Mark Dawidziak
    Aug 9, 2014
    50
    There is one depressing symptom noticeable throughout tonight's opener. Even with the dialogue blazing by us, we can't help noticing how tired cliches, awkward observations and anemic lines are seriously reducing the script's overall vitality...What this show needs is an emergency transfusion of fresh writing. It needs scripts as strong as the acting and directing. Without that, Gideon's Crossing will remain this simmering cauldron of potential - a potent mixture waiting to be brought to full boil. [10 Oct 2000, p.9E]
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  3. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Tom Shales
    Aug 9, 2014
    40
    Seems too self-consciously and schematically a vehicle for the actor, a vehicle that sputters and stalls when one wants it to zoom. [10 Oct 2000, p.C01]
  5. Boston Globe
    Reviewed by: Matthew Gilbert
    Aug 6, 2014
    40
    Gideon's Crossing is soulful and serious. It's also heavy-handed and ponderous, the equivalent of an hour with a philosophy grad student who just won't lighten up. [10 Oct 2000, p.C1]
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