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Critic Reviews
Jun 11, 2013
Season 2 Review:
In the last third of the season, NYPD Blue was as good as it's ever been: more action to go with the already terrific dialogue; more unexpected twists from a show that could have easily let up on its twisting in its second season. ... If you tuned away from NYPD when [David] Caruso left, now's the time to catch up.
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Apr 3, 2013
Season 1 Review:
Yet another explosively compelling police drama -- not to mention a controversy that seems certain to guarantee a big audience for the program. [21 Sept 1993, p.D1]
Apr 3, 2013
Season 1 Review:
A compelling and sometimes harrowing hour of high-tension urban trauma, different from Bochco's "Hill Street Blues" and at least as good as any other drama series now on the air. It delivers a good, stiff shock now and then, and what's wrong with that? It's surely preferable to shows that lull you into numbness. [21 Sept 1993, p.D1]
Apr 3, 2013
Season 1 Review:
Even the smaller parts are skillfully sculptured. James McDaniel, trailing outstanding stage performances in "Six Degrees of Separation" and "Someone Who'll Watch Over Me," is quietly controlled as the police lieutenant who must cope with Sipowicz's racist outbursts, among other things. And Nicholas Turturro, John's kid brother, is engaging as a young and eager policeman named Martinez.
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Apr 3, 2013
Season 1 Review:
Take away the nude lovemaking scene, the revolutionary level of potent cussing, the curiosity-stirring controversies surrounding Steven Bochco's premeditated shock elements, and NYPD Blue remains one helluva cop show. [21 Sept 1993, p.35]
Apr 3, 2013
Season 1 Review:
In Franz, the show has an actor who is to TV cops what Walter Cronkite was to anchormen. It seems as if I've seen Franz try on about a thousand TV cop outfits. This one fits perfectly - tattered, soiled but real...Caruso is a revelation. Given the history of TV redheads - Red Skelton, Lucy, Howdy Doody - one doesn't expect to find a carrot-topped tough guy. But Caruso is convincing, engaging and fully of New York City. [21 Sept 1993, p.T1]
Apr 3, 2013
Season 1 Review:
NYPD Blue is a very good cop drama, often edging its way into superb...It is intense and powerful, peopled with intriguing characters. And it addresses issues in remarkably human, real terms, especially for television. [21 Sept 1993, p.C1]
Apr 3, 2013
Season 1 Review:
Amy Brenneman, as Licalsi, is the dark-haired, more visceral contrast to Kelly's wife, Laura, played by Sherry Stringfield. Both women add depth to the drama, as do James McDaniel as the precinct commander, Nicholas Turturro as the new kid in the cop shop and Tom Towles as the guy from the Organized Crime Squad.
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Apr 3, 2013
Season 1 Review:
NYPD Blue is telling a tough, engrossing story about several fascinating characters...Chief among them is the grimly determined but not humorless Kelly, played by David Caruso with an irresistibly cool, understated intensity. Caruso's performance is the perfect counterpoint to that of Dennis Franz as the constantly fuming, embittered Detective Andy Sipowicz, Kelly's partner. [19 Sept 1993, p.TV-6]
Apr 3, 2013
Season 1 Review:
A striking, crisply edited show. The raw language, the series' other point of controversy, gives NYPD Blue an authentic flavor. Here is a series about bruised people, seemingly beyond redemption. This is the way they would talk. [21 Sept 1993, p.E1]
Apr 3, 2013
Season 1 Review:
The acting is strong. The music is urgent. The on-location
shooting - with many exteriors - has a gritty Gotham
authenticity. And the directorial style is crisp and
energized. [21 Sept 1993, p.H1]
Jun 13, 2013
Season 8 Review:
There's still enjoyment to be gleaned from Blue — the crime-scene segments are still top-notch, and Schroder just keeps getting better. (May I make a freakin' obvious suggestion? More interrogation scenes and fewer bedroom ones, please.) But taking two episodes to wrap up last season's boring plot about long-gone Jill Kirkendall suggests that the pace is way too slow.
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Jun 13, 2013
Season 7 Review:
Unfortunately, neither of these [early] subplots is very nourishing, which is too bad. Having waited so long to begin its season, the show has the rare luxury of a nice, long run of first-run episodes, and it does build nicely on this momentum—in a few weeks ... But right now Andy's scenes with Theo verge on the eye-avertingly awful.
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Apr 3, 2013
Season 1 Review:
While the music of Mike Post makes its insistent point, complementing Franz's fine crafting of a hyper-real portrait of a public servant that's effective in a heightened way, NYPD's overall impact is all too self-consciously wrought to engender quieter, deeper aspects that would truly flesh out the fictional lives assayed here. [21 Sept 1993]
Apr 3, 2013
Season 1 Review:
In no way does NYPD Blue even approach the brilliance of Barry Levinson's police drama, "Homicide," which aired briefly last spring and still could return. So if you exercise your right to change the channel when it comes on, you won't be missing greatness. [19 Sept 1993, p.7F]
Jul 12, 2013
Season 4 Review:
"NYPD Blue" is no longer cutting-edge TV. ... It has become a soap. [14 Oct 1996]
Apr 3, 2013
Season 1 Review:
Watchable but disappointing. [21 Sept 1993, p.F1]
Apr 3, 2013
Season 1 Review:
The show is a mixed bag. The story line is formulaic, but the
dark tone is skillfully shaded in gray. The approach to sex is
basically gratuitous, sexist, and tiresome - more banal male
fantasies. The handling of violence is at least concerned with
consequences. There are too many stock characters, and the speedy
pace is manipulative, but the camera work is excellent in the
pilot, and the character development of the show's protagonist is
one of the most interesting ever created for a weekly cop show. [21 Sept 2003, p.13]
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