- Network: WB , The WB , TWB , Warner Brothers
- Series Premiere Date: Oct 5, 2003
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[An] enjoyable and not insincere reworking of the much-reworked legend by Edgar Rice Burroughs.
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The 2003 edition has the edge on the 1942 in terms of raw excitement.
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Sexy and stylish. [4 Oct 2003]
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Oddly - and maybe miraculously - Tarzan doesn't go bad. In fact, it's pretty good, and it beats the hell out most of the junk being paraded in front of us this season ("Karen Sisco" excepted, of course!)
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Their escapist capers make for pretty but mindless TV. [5 Oct 2003, p.47]
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Another sumptuous-looking hour based on a famous hero, infused with scads of potential but also some problematic underpinnings. [1 Oct 2003, p.7]
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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]
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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]
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Him Tarzan, me bored. [3 Oct 2003, p.11E]
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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]
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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]
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Despite being underwhelmed by the premiere, I'm not ready to write "Tarzan" off just yet.
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Tarzan isn't as horrifyingly awful as the WB's recent remake of another cultural icon, "The Lone Ranger," but few things are. Even so, it's asking a lot even to wait around [for Lucy] Lawless to show up...Fact is, this "Tarzan" series dies on the vine.
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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]
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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]
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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]
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It's all rather dull. Which might be remedied. Maybe. [4 Oct 2003, p.E08]
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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]
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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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That, friends, is bad TV. [3 Oct 2003, p.E1]
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Me critic. You stink. [3 Oct 2003, p.3]
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