The Client

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Season 1
  • Network: CBS
  • Series Premiere Date: Sep 19, 1995
Metascore
50

Mixed or average reviews - based on 15 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 15
  2. Mixed: 8 out of 15
  3. Negative: 3 out of 15

Critic Reviews

  1. USA Today
    Reviewed by: Matt Roush
    May 29, 2014
    37
    Say what literary critics will about John Grisham's best sellers, they're not dull. And dull is about the best you can say of the series derived from John Grisham's The Client. [15 Sept 1995, p.3D]
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  2. Denver Post
    Reviewed by: Joanne Ostrow
    May 29, 2014
    30
    The pilot only feels like it's three hours long. [17 Sept 1995, p.E01]
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  3. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Howard Rosenberg
    May 29, 2014
    20
    As TV's gold-hearted Reggie, the capable JoBeth Williams is undermined by a script with plot holes wide enough to drive the Atlanta Braves and their families through. The plodding, convoluted, unnavigable story has her resourceful 11-year-old client -- the court has made her his legal guardian -- gaining possession of $1 million in stolen loot, putting both of them in conflict with some murderous types.