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Critic Reviews
Aug 5, 2014
Season 1 Review:
With an attitude that is nine parts Northern Exposure and one part Twin Peaks, Maximum Bob qualifies as one of the best hourlong shows that ABC has uncorked since NYPD Blue. [4 Aug 1998, p.1C]
Aug 5, 2014
Season 1 Review:
For all its reptilian quirkiness, there is some maximum enjoyment here. [4 Aug 1998, p.34]
Aug 6, 2014
Season 1 Review:
Maximum Bob is like a consciousness-expanding narcotic transferred to film stock. If it's sometimes too taken with its own sense of wacky, it surely deserves kudos for putting out the effort at all. [3 Aug 1998, p.04]
Aug 6, 2014
Season 1 Review:
[Bob]'s also a wonderful, charismatic character at the middle of several quirky souls that inhabit this delightful and visually refreshing comedy-drama. [4 Aug 1998, p.C10]
Aug 6, 2014
Season 1 Review:
Wonderfully warped...Expect both sly satire and big belly laughs from this summer treat. [4 Aug 1998]
Aug 5, 2014
Season 1 Review:
ABC is as unworthy of "Bob" as it is in desperate need of it - and clueless about how to support and promote it. [4 Aug 1998, p.78]
Aug 6, 2014
Season 1 Review:
Good weird. [3 Aug 1998]
Aug 6, 2014
Season 1 Review:
Maximum Bob maximizes its dark humor in satisfyingly loopy ways. [4 Aug 1998, p.E-1]
Aug 5, 2014
Season 1 Review:
Maximum Bob evokes a little of that quirky show ("Northern Exposure"), with a talented ensemble cast, rich characters, and a script that doesn't write down to viewers. [4 Aug 1998, p.E-01]
Aug 5, 2014
Season 1 Review:
The show, based on the novel by Elmore Leonard, brings us some of the nuttiest backwoods characters since Sheriff Harry S. Truman and Agent Dale Cooper looked into the murder of Laura Palmer. [4 Aug 1998, p.E1]
Aug 6, 2014
Season 1 Review:
Whether it eventually runs out of storytelling steam or becomes a surprise hit like former hot-weather rookie "Northern Exposure," the engagingly bodacious Maximum Bob sure beats another numb summer rerun. Here comes the jive-talking judge! [3 Aug 1998, p.1D]
Aug 6, 2014
Season 1 Review:
The cast is uniformly first-rate, but the real star here seems
to be Sonnenfeld. He brings to Maximum Bob the same gleeful
affection for strange characters and dark humor that enlivened
his movies -- and that will be on display in the fall in his Fantasy
Island update. [4 Aug 1998, p.1D]
Aug 5, 2014
Season 1 Review:
The whole thing is laid out with the comic visual sensibility Sonnenfeld brought to films such as "Raising Arizona" and "Throw Momma From the Train" as a cinematographer and "Men in Black" as a director. It's a welcome change from the cookie-cutter stuff one normally sees in prime-time, but you do sort of wonder what brought Sonnenfeld to TV, a medium not known for its nuance and subtlety. [4 Aug 1998, p.33]
Aug 6, 2014
Season 1 Review:
There's enough to like about this series to hope for its return later in the season. [3 Aug 1998]
Aug 6, 2014
Season 1 Review:
If Maximum Bob can retain the slice 'n' dice edge of its pilot episode - and if ABC has the sense to stick with it as word of mouth spreads - we might have a keeper here. [4 Aug 1998, p.D1]
Aug 6, 2014
Season 1 Review:
A sunny and often funny mix of "Twin Peaks," "Law & Order," and "Flipper." [4 Aug 1998, p.D01]
Aug 6, 2014
Season 1 Review:
What may seem funny and colorfully evocative in the book comes across as smug and snide in the series. [4 Aug 1998, p.C01]
Aug 5, 2014
Season 1 Review:
But by the third episode, Maximum Bob turns into minimal entertainment. The plot contrivances become strained beyond repair, and the farcical edge is blunted. [4 Aug 1998, p.1C]
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