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"Huff" is one of the best dramas on TV and easily the best one airing currently on pay cable.
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The unique amalgam of a show that "Huff" has been -- a sort of sampler platter of hyperbolic though realistic, sympathetic but often self-sabotaging characters -- retains its balance and tone quite well this season.
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Against everything else available to viewers, "Huff" is premium cable-grade content without the "wows" that justify the extra expense.
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The language in "Huff" is still graphic and foul. What redeems it, as always, is the artful acting and occasional small scenes of quiet beauty.
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[It is] a mess of unconvincing drama, and the acting veers from magnificent to quite poor.
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"Huff" got too heavy, and too predictable in its moroseness. Lying on the couch for more seems unnecessarily depressing.
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The second flight of episodes shares much with year one -- showy [performances] tethered to uneven writing and a less-defined premise than those of other top pay TV dramas.
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It feels less like Freud's fun house than an opportunity for one performer after another to launch into frenzied, vituperative speeches. [24 Apr 2006, p.39]
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Despite the storylines' incessant emotional and psychological delvings, the result is an inert if not annoying muddle among unpleasantly profane people whose prospective salvation isn't worth wading toward.
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Huff is stubbornly inert, going all over the place tonally while going nowhere emotionally.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 16 out of 19
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Mixed: 0 out of 19
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Negative: 3 out of 19
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katieMay 14, 2007
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lynnwFeb 23, 2007Extremely entertaining.
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JuanJan 28, 2007Splendid.