Lock N' Load

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Season 1
  • Network: SHOWTIME
  • Series Premiere Date: Oct 21, 2009
User Score
8.4

Universal acclaim- based on 18 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 16 out of 18
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 18
  3. Negative: 2 out of 18

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  1. royh
    Nov 4, 2009
    0
    This show is very annoying. As a second amendment supporter, gun owner and nra member I am embarrassed by the way business is conducted in this gun shop. Much of this so called reality show is obviously staged and scripted. The main character or should I say actor is careless and simply looking to make a name for himself. I have purchased firearms in many shops in Pennsylvania and This show is very annoying. As a second amendment supporter, gun owner and nra member I am embarrassed by the way business is conducted in this gun shop. Much of this so called reality show is obviously staged and scripted. The main character or should I say actor is careless and simply looking to make a name for himself. I have purchased firearms in many shops in Pennsylvania and Virginia and it is always done professionally and you never see dealers laying out multiple weapons and letting children play with the guns. If this is how shooters conducts business then they should be shut down. This show makes law abiding gun owners (mostly professional, intelligent people) seem like careless idiots. I truly hope that showtime does not pick up this reality series. Especially since there is absolutely nothing REAL about it!… Expand

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#94 Best TV Season of 2009
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#88 Most Discussed TV Season of 2009

Critic Reviews

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Metascore
46

Mixed or average reviews - based on 10 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 10
  2. Mixed: 6 out of 10
  3. Negative: 2 out of 10
  1. Boston Globe
    Reviewed by: Joanna Weiss
    70
    Lock ’n Load treats Wayne and many fellow customers as curiosities, and occasionally smacks of condescension. (The “Amazing Grace’’ sequence, in particular, crosses a line.) But the series also takes pains to avoid making judgments, and offers a parade of gun owners so vast that we end up with a broad view.
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  2. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Kate Ward
    75
    NRA enthusiasts might be the target audience for this reality show about a Colorado gun shop, but Lock manages to have mainstream appeal, thanks to its focus on the store's quirky customers (a shank-holding old lady, a gun-loving pastor, etc.).
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  3. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Robert Lloyd
    50
    Ryan prompts the patrons to talk, but the stories don't really develop into much; and although the arms-buying demographic is indeed wider than one who has not spent much time in a gun store might imagine, their reasons for buying tend to be variations on the same few themes: I was robbed; I don't want to be robbed; guns are fun to collect and shoot.
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