- Network: FOX
- Series Premiere Date: Sep 14, 2005
Critic Reviews
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A gaspingly funny show that you ought to watch early and often.
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The show's appeal is its breezy verbiage and well-suited cast.
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Part improbable comedy, part unrealistic drama, "Head Cases" is nonetheless a clever series that gets incredible mileage out of its two central characters.
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The Practice should have been this much fun.
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A show with a promising premise that could be a winner.
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"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.
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An uneven but so far entertaining buddy show.
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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.
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Mostly, it is a case load borrowed from "L.A. Law" and "Boston Legal." But the two troubled lawyers are amusing.
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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.
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The marriage of opposites is a simplistic and overused premise for a TV series, and ''Head Cases" doesn't travel very far beyond it.
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All alone, Goldberg is beside himself, as if Ben Stiller and Adam Sandler struggled for possession of his soul.
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O'Donnell is humorless, formless and vacant; Goldberg is manic and grating.
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Too many moments feel false, overblown or contrived.
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The show is neither funny enough to be a comedy nor dramatic enough to be an engaging drama.
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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.
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"Head Cases" has good leading men but a crushingly bad premise.
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One of the more embarrassing new series this season.
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The predictability and triteness of "Head Cases" make it difficult to type even a sentence in favor of any part of this series.
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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.
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This is David E. Kelley on his worst days with wildly improbable plot developments and much forced humor.
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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.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 6 out of 8
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Mixed: 0 out of 8
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Negative: 2 out of 8
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MillieHNov 21, 2005This is a good show. Needs to develope the characters but has possibilities.
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steveWNov 10, 2005
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CindyJNov 2, 2005Put it back on...take this other crap off.