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It's a terrific idea. But it doesn't quite measure up to its potential.
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The show, from Greg Berlanti and Nicolas Wootton, does a good job of making Clark both appealing and overly ambitious.... What doesn’t work at all in the first two episodes of Golden Boy is the more familiar procedural material.
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We quickly care what happens to these characters, which gets any show off to a strong start. Just as quickly, though, the time-jumping makes the story feel more complicated than it needs to.
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Golden Boy’s half-bakedness--part totally competent TV show, part lazily executed one--permeates throughout.
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An ambitious character-driven drama over-enamored from the get-go with its tricky structure and coy premise.
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Nicholas Wootton's uniformly by-the-book series quickly eradicates itself of any authentic tension by unwisely depicting its hero alive and well (despite a slight limp that has yet to be thoroughly explained) seven years in the future.
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It’s just another police procedural pretending to be something bigger, and I don’t feel all that compelled to stick around and watch this golden boy grow up.
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Golden Boy is a smoothly made but entirely generic show that rides the squad-room-as-family metaphor hard.
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Golden Boy is a passable new cop show from CBS that relies on a flash-forward gimmick to set it apart from other TV cop shows.
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Beyond the pilot, though, it appears to be a blandly generic precinct drama. [5 Mar 2013]
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Other than the unspooling of the ghost of policework past, Golden Boy is so formulaic as to be instantly forgettable.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 21 out of 34
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Mixed: 7 out of 34
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Negative: 6 out of 34
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Mar 20, 2013
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Mar 19, 2013Golden Boy is a Japanese anime series based around the comedic flavors of Great Teacher Onizuka. This is not the same Golden Boy.
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Apr 23, 2013