Head Cases
FOX | Release Date: September 14, 2005
CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
43
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 22 Critic Reviews
Positive:
5
Mixed:
7
Negative:
10

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
90
Miami HeraldGlenn Garvin
Season 1 Review: A gaspingly funny show that you ought to watch early and often. Read full review
88
Chicago Sun-TimesDoug Elfman
Season 1 Review: The show's appeal is its breezy verbiage and well-suited cast. Read full review
70
The Hollywood ReporterBarry Garron
Season 1 Review: Part improbable comedy, part unrealistic drama, "Head Cases" is nonetheless a clever series that gets incredible mileage out of its two central characters. Read full review
70
PopMattersSamantha Bornemann
Season 1 Review: The Practice should have been this much fun. Read full review
63
New York PostLinda Stasi
Season 1 Review: A show with a promising premise that could be a winner. Read full review
60
Chicago TribuneSid Smith
Season 1 Review: "Head Cases" might have more of a chance if it gets a little bit sharper, edgier, funnier and surprising. But it's a likable, potentially promising premise, buoyed by the expert casting of its leads. Read full review
60
Kansas City StarAaron Barnhart
Season 1 Review: An uneven but so far entertaining buddy show. Read full review
60
Los Angeles TimesRobert Lloyd
Season 1 Review: It's too schematic by half, the banter rarely ascends to the level and wit, and it contains barely a believable moment... but it is not without a certain energy and cast-based charm. Read full review
60
The New York TimesAlessandra Stanley
Season 1 Review: Mostly, it is a case load borrowed from "L.A. Law" and "Boston Legal." But the two troubled lawyers are amusing. Read full review
50
VarietyBrian Lowry
Season 1 Review: Although the show works a little too hard at being quirky, "Head Cases" does deliver a pair of well-defined protagonists, but initially not the kind of obsessive-compulsive magnetism it will need to flourish in a pretty inhospitable timeslot. Read full review
40
Boston GlobeMatthew Gilbert
Season 1 Review: The marriage of opposites is a simplistic and overused premise for a TV series, and ''Head Cases" doesn't travel very far beyond it. Read full review
40
New York Magazine (Vulture)John Leonard
Season 1 Review: All alone, Goldberg is beside himself, as if Ben Stiller and Adam Sandler struggled for possession of his soul. Read full review
38
USA TodayRobert Bianco
Season 1 Review: O'Donnell is humorless, formless and vacant; Goldberg is manic and grating. Read full review
30
NewsdayDiane Werts
Season 1 Review: Too many moments feel false, overblown or contrived. Read full review
30
Pittsburgh Post-GazetteRob Owen
Season 1 Review: The show is neither funny enough to be a comedy nor dramatic enough to be an engaging drama. Read full review
30
Seattle Post-IntelligencerMelanie McFarland
Season 1 Review: Had "Boston Legal" not perfected the art of office insanity, "Head Cases" ... actually, nope, can't even say it would have a shot in that circumstance. Read full review
25
New York Daily NewsDavid Hinckley
Season 1 Review: "Head Cases" has good leading men but a crushingly bad premise. Read full review
20
Orlando SentinelHal Boedeker
Season 1 Review: One of the more embarrassing new series this season. Read full review
12
San Francisco ChronicleTim Goodman
Season 1 Review: The predictability and triteness of "Head Cases" make it difficult to type even a sentence in favor of any part of this series. Read full review
10
Philadelphia InquirerJonathan Storm
Season 1 Review: The title could have many meanings, but primarily it refers to the people, all 27 of them, who might find something to like in this misfit buddy-lawyer dramedy. Read full review
10
San Jose Mercury News/Contra Costa TimesCharlie McCollum
Season 1 Review: This is David E. Kelley on his worst days with wildly improbable plot developments and much forced humor. Read full review
0
Washington PostTom Shales
Season 1 Review: Most of the shows now on network television, whether repugnant or tolerable or actually worthwhile, are competently and professionally directed, edited and photographed, but "Head Cases" is a mess even as a piece of storytelling. Read full review
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