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Critic Reviews
Jan 9, 2025
Season 1 Review:
Amazon Prime’s “On Call,” the latest drama from executive producer Dick Wolf, is so intent on selling audiences on the idea that police are unfairly maligned and in danger every moment, of every day, that it forgets to tell a coherent or even fitfully entertaining story.
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The Daily BeastJan 10, 2025
Season 1 Review:
It’s clear that On Call wants to pay tribute to the complexity of this profession, without falling victim to either pure copaganda or abolish-the-police sermonizing. But the changes it makes from familiar formulas are almost insultingly cosmetic, and the serialized portion of its storyline is soapy and cartoonish.
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LooperJan 9, 2025
Season 1 Review:
Ultimately, these brief moments of lightning-rod right-wing moralism are the only memorable parts of this series. Riddled with clichés and uninspired in its criminal underworld narrative, it's as boring as this genre gets — the episodes may only be half an hour, but they feel a hell of a lot longer.
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