Shark

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Season 1
  • Network: CBS
  • Series Premiere Date: Sep 21, 2006
Season #: 2, 1
Metascore
60

Mixed or average reviews - based on 26 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 11 out of 26
  2. Mixed: 15 out of 26
  3. Negative: 0 out of 26
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Critic Reviews

  1. Detroit Free Press
    Reviewed by: Mike Duffy
    80
    Feels like a hit show about to happen.
  2. Miami Herald
    Reviewed by: Glenn Garvin
    80
    Shark works some of the same ground as Fox's new legal drama Justice, but with far more wit and style.
  3. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Tom Shales
    80
    "Shark" is one of the season's best and fastest-moving new dramas.
  5. People Weekly
    Reviewed by: Tom Gliatto
    75
    Woods is every bit as entertaining as he strives to be. [25 Sep 2006, p.43]
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  6. USA Today
    Reviewed by: Robert Bianco
    75
    Nothing about this cookie-cutter courtroom drama is really up to Woods' talent, but given his head and a lot of room, he makes it work.
  7. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: David Hinckley
    75
    The series... is pure formula, but it's a formula that works.
  8. Newsday
    Reviewed by: Diane Werts
    70
    Good actors can get away with glib, and Woods is one of the best, persuasive enough to have you spotting freshness in the familiar and wisdom in cliches.
  9. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
    Reviewed by: Rob Owen
    70
    "Shark"... is clearly a "House" imitator, but a pretty crisp copy.
  10. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Alessandra Stanley
    70
    Mr. Woods has found a television role that suits his gift and runs away with it.
  11. Chicago Sun-Times
    Reviewed by: Doug Elfman
    63
    "Shark" now looks like above-average, workaday TV with promise.
  12. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Linda Stasi
    63
    The show is not as good as Woods makes it, but not as bad as some of the new shows.

Awards & Rankings

47
#47 Best TV Season of 2006
60
#60 Most Discussed TV Season of 2006
34
#34 Most Shared TV Season of 2006

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User Score
7.9

Generally favorable reviews- based on 57 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 45 out of 57
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 57
  3. Negative: 9 out of 57
  1. JoshW
    Sep 9, 2007
    1
    This show is ridiculous and contains the most unbelievable cases. Judges allow things that would never work in an actual courtroom. Absurd.
  2. BONNIEH.
    Aug 29, 2007
    10
    Go Shark!! He is "yards" better than watching/hearing about spoiled sports stars and their millions abusing drugs and wives; or otherwise Go Shark!! He is "yards" better than watching/hearing about spoiled sports stars and their millions abusing drugs and wives; or otherwise breaking the law. Maybe they are exempt from our laws!! ?? Get'm Shark!!!… Full Review »
  3. BillM
    Jul 30, 2007
    0
    Does it not bother anyone else that Shark, while working for the public, has committed acts which should have had him disbarred not to Does it not bother anyone else that Shark, while working for the public, has committed acts which should have had him disbarred not to mention sent to jail? The Dial M for Monica was the worst case of an unscrupulous lawyer.… Full Review »
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