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Critic Reviews
Jan 8, 2020
Season 1 Review:
Viewers are not accustomed to finding programs of this caliber on Fox, and they certainly will not expect it right after the tawdry "Melrose Place." But make the effort. You'll be glad you did. [11 Sept 1994, p.TV-17]
Jul 12, 2013
Season 1 Review:
A socially responsible, heartwarming, beautifully made, written and acted series. [8 Sep 1994]
Jan 8, 2020
Season 1 Review:
In less capable hands, the show might have turned into a
far-fetched teen fantasy about life without parental restrictions...Here, it is a touching and finely crafted exploration of what it
means to grow up without either the rules or the loving guidance of
parents. [10 Sept 1994]
Jan 8, 2020
Season 1 Review:
For one thing, the cast was stellar. To play the four oldest siblings, Keyser and Lippman found Matthew Fox, Scott Wolf, Neve Campbell, and Lacey Chabert, all of whom would go on to have significant careers elsewhere and all of whom almost immediately started acting like a semi-functioning family unit.
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Jan 8, 2020
Season 1 Review:
Chris Keyser and Amy Lippman, former writers and executive producers on NBC's "Sisters," manage to transcend an off-putting concept by making their young characters quite credible and likable as they encounter the obstacles of growing up...The cast is exceptionally attractive; the characters are unusually affecting.
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Jan 8, 2020
Season 1 Review:
The best, warmest, most immediately satisfying contemporary family drama since ABC's Life Goes On. May this one have as long a run. It will certainly have as steep an uphill battle. [12 Sept 1994, p.8D]
Jan 8, 2020
Season 1 Review:
The orphans-hang-together story is hokey in places, but it also addresses important issues that rarely come up in usual network fare, like handling money and responsibility for and to each other. [12 Sept 1994]
Jan 8, 2020
Season 1 Review:
Party of Five is easily Fox's best new series this season...The young actors, especially Wolf, give heartfelt performances, and when they talk about their departed parents, the pain comes through. There are some Fox touches -- the knockout new nanny, for one -- but Party of Five is far from being a life-without-parents fantasy. [12 Sept 1994, p.C1]
Jan 8, 2020
Season 1 Review:
Critics keep saying that this doesn't look like a Fox show, and they mean that as a compliment. Sure, the cast is attractive enough to guest star on Beverly Hills, 90210, but with a subject ripe for overwrought treatment, Party of Five holds back just enough. [11 Sept 1994, p.11C]
Jan 8, 2020
Season 1 Review:
This melancholy premise results in a rather uncomfortable mix for a coming-of-age show. There's the comedic, with "humor" arising from the family's slobbery dog and the baby's poopy diapers. Then there's the maudlin, with scenes that are summed up by 11-year-old Claudia (Lacey Chabert) early on. [12 Sept 1994, p.27]
Jan 8, 2020
Season 1 Review:
"Death to the parents" in prime time is an interesting notion for a cultural essay. But it makes for a fairly uninspired drama tonight on Fox when all that seems to matter is money, money, money. [12 Sept 1994]
Jan 8, 2020
Season 1 Review:
This new Fox drama is all about the cloyingly sensitive, a treatment of innocence and loss that is over-the-top contrite. Indeed, a pinch of corrosive cynicism might have rescued the total undertaking from the terminally coy. Instead, we get ever more labored business. [12 Sept 1994]
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