- Network: CBS
- Series Premiere Date: Sep 28, 2012
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As schematic and derivative as it is, as invested in piling on the feel-good moments past the point even of suspended disbelief, there is something quite likable about Made in Jersey.
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Think "Legally Blonde" meets "Working Girl." Kyle MacLachlan plays Martina's perceptive boss in this series, promising for its deft plotting and, perhaps above all, its high spirits.
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Jersey may just be competent, at best--but that's better than the incompetence that marks so many of the season's new offerings.
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Made In Jersey feels curiously half-dressed.
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It's a drama that takes the wretched New Jersey caricature created by trashy shows like "Jersey Shore" and uses it as a force for good, or at least for reasonably good courtroom tales.
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It's more closely a cross between "My Cousin Vinny" and "The Good Wife," with Janet Montgomery ("Entourage") a dull stand-in for Oscar winner Marisa Tomei.
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Made in Jersey looks reasonably polished, without doing much to plant its hook particularly deep.
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Surface fashion styling can't cloak the underlying framework of yet another CBS procedural.
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It's a thoroughly ordinary series on what's increasingly an inconsequential night in the not-so-grand broadcast network scheme of things.
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Jersey's painfully familiar but easy-to-take act, which plays like a USA Network show on auto-pilot, feels "Made for Fridays."
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Made in Jersey is lame and clichéd, but it's far from the bottom of the barrel on network TV.
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Made in Jersey is only sporadically engaging.
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For all its predictable moments, however, Made in Jersey is still more or less watchable, thanks to Montgomery, who is an effortlessly appealing actress.
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In the new drama Made in Jersey, Working Girl meets Erin Brockovich, and together they leap into the CBS pit of blandness and drown.
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The predictability is out in force on this series, and despite CBS' ability to make a hit out of pretty much anything it films, this one doesn't really stand up and make a case for itself.
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[A] ridiculous rendition of a plucky, working-class gal (Janet Montgomery) who shows 'em all how it's done at a fancy-pants Manhattan law firm.
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The concept is ridiculous, the murder case not even remotely intriguing, the script for the pilot is amateurish, and the whole Jersey thing is so phonied up, you'd actually welcome a cameo by Snooki just to add some verisimilitude.
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[A] morass of vanilla quirk and stereotype whack-a-mole. [28 Sep 2012, p.66]
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She's all pluck and stilettos, and when the day is done, she returns to her typical big Italian family--who might as well be cardboard cutouts eating Ragu out of the jar.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 13 out of 24
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Mixed: 0 out of 24
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Negative: 11 out of 24
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