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Critic Reviews
Aug 7, 2014
Season 1 Review:
Sexy and stylish. [4 Oct 2003]
Aug 7, 2014
Season 1 Review:
Their escapist capers make for pretty but mindless TV. [5 Oct 2003, p.47]
Aug 7, 2014
Season 1 Review:
Another sumptuous-looking hour based on a famous hero, infused with scads of potential but also some problematic underpinnings. [1 Oct 2003, p.7]
Aug 7, 2014
Season 1 Review:
Tarzan seems like such an iffy premise for a series. Our hero is evidently going to help Jane with her caseload, proving he can make it you-know-where and be top of the heap. Don't we have enough police in prime time so Tarzan can be himself? [5 Oct 2003, p.4]
Aug 7, 2014
Season 1 Review:
Silly as it is, the show works as pop-mythic eye candy. The pilot alone a motherlode of iconic pictures. [3 Oct 2003, p.53]
Aug 7, 2014
Season 1 Review:
Him Tarzan, me bored. [3 Oct 2003, p.11E]
Aug 7, 2014
Season 1 Review:
The WB is hoping you'll be so agog over the atmospherics and Aussie underwear model Travis Fimmel's sculpted pecs and abs that you don't notice the story's a little thin in this New York update of the old Edgar Rice Burroughs tale. [3 Oct 2003, p.49]
Aug 7, 2014
Season 1 Review:
The real strain is in trying to turn Tarzan into a crime fighter like Spider-Man, complete with the gravity-defying leaps and whoosh-wham special effects. [4 Oct 2003, p.E6]
Aug 7, 2014
Season 1 Review:
As for story, Tarzan will remain trapped in monotony unless the writers can get him out of the city sometime (at least to the Catskills or Poconos), or bring in wild and bizarre comic book characters like the Batman series did. [5 Oct 2003, p.TV6]
Aug 7, 2014
Season 1 Review:
It's hard to imagine anyone over the age of 15 being able to watch this series with a straight face after seeing Tarzan go sniffing through Midtown like a bloodhound, but maybe that's the audience the WB is after. As we said, Fimmel does have great pecs. [3 Oct 2003, p.B47]
Aug 7, 2014
Season 1 Review:
It's all thin melodrama and B-grade action steeped in generic nighttime city scapes. All the while, there's the serious Fimmel, doing his workout with a jut in his jawline and a grunt on his lips. [3 Oct 2003, p.D16]
Aug 7, 2014
Season 1 Review:
It's all rather dull. Which might be remedied. Maybe. [4 Oct 2003, p.E08]
Aug 7, 2014
Season 1 Review:
Much of Tarzan feels more like a marketing strategy than a show, and it seems to have a few flaws that "Smallville" doesn't. Chief among them is the incoherent plotline, which, in the pilot at least, does little to explain the motivations of Pileggi's character. [4 Oct 2003, p.D01]
Aug 7, 2014
Season 1 Review:
It's one thing that Fimmel can't act (but boy, he puts a lot of heart into that grunting, and he does that thing where he just seethes, which allows the camera to get close to his face for long, long periods of time), it's another that the script is flat-out stupid and the rest of the cast isn't exactly pulling a De Niro.
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Aug 7, 2014
Season 1 Review:
That, friends, is bad TV. [3 Oct 2003, p.E1]
Aug 7, 2014
Season 1 Review:
Me critic. You stink. [3 Oct 2003, p.3]
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