The Big Easy

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Season 1
  • Network: USA
  • Series Premiere Date: Aug 11, 1996
Season #: 2, 1
Metascore
52

Mixed or average reviews - based on 13 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 13
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 13
  3. Negative: 4 out of 13
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  1. Philadelphia Inquirer
    Reviewed by: Lee Winfrey
    May 29, 2014
    90
    It is rollicking fun. [11 Aug 1996, p.K01]
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  2. San Diego Union-Tribune
    Reviewed by: John Freeman
    May 29, 2014
    88
    There are delicious slices of French Quarter partyin' and plot twists that don't seem too contrived. [9 Aug 1996, p.E-8]
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  3. Houston Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Ann Hodges
    May 29, 2014
    75
    There's enough humor in this escape route entertainment to bring you back for more. [11 Aug 1996, p.1996]
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  5. The Hollywood Reporter
    Reviewed by: Irv Letofsky
    May 29, 2014
    70
    Inspired by the 1987 feature film, also steamy, with Dennis Quaid and Ellen Barkin, the pilot is dense but awkward while we pick through the accents and try to figure all the twisty relationships among the twisty characters. But there's a nice bounce to the strong cast and a fresh and delicious (and steamy) locale. [7 Aug 1996]
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  6. Seattle Post-Intelligencer
    Reviewed by: John Levesque
    May 29, 2014
    70
    The style of The Big Easy is slick: good camera work, great music, fast pacing. Its script isn't as intelligent yet as some of the big cop dramas on the big networks, but there are glimmers of hope in the City that Hope Forgot. [9 Aug 1996, p.24]
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