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Critic Reviews
Sep 19, 2013
Season 1 Review:
It is also stunning, compelling and thoroughly, empathetically human. [14 Apr 2000, p.11E]
Sep 19, 2013
Season 1 Review:
A striking six-week miniseries delivering one of the rawest, truest, most provocative and involving dramas ever beamed to Americans. And one of the most important, defining a seedy, destructive junkie subculture in vivid, aching detail in the tradition of such theatrical films as "Panic in Needle Park," "Drugstore Cowboy" and "Trainspotting." [14 Apr 2000, p.F1]
Sep 19, 2013
Season 1 Review:
An unflinching and deeply affecting portrait of American tragedy. [14 Apr 2000, p.4F]
Sep 19, 2013
Season 1 Review:
Relentlessly intense and depressing, ferociously written and spectacularly acted. [14 Apr 2000, p.135]
Sep 19, 2013
Season 1 Review:
While The Corner may sound like just more preachy TV cliches about drug abuse and African-American self-destruction, it is so much more than that. It is about the life and death forces at war in that inner-city staple, The Corner, and it is a jarring introduction to the people behind the statistics and the cliches. I hope it finds an audience, despite its rawness. No one ever said great drama had to be pretty. [14 Apr 2000, p.D1]
Sep 19, 2013
Season 1 Review:
The Corner is strong, solid storytelling, but it's more than that. It's an act of enlightenment, raw and shattering and strangely, inexplicably, beautiful. [15 Apr 2000, p.C01]
Sep 19, 2013
Season 1 Review:
An astonishing achievement, a miniseries that manages to put human faces on the drug culture in American neighborhoods. [16 Apr 2000, p.F9]
Sep 19, 2013
Season 1 Review:
The Corner is a marvel - a powerful testament to the crumbling inner city, the Catch-22 of urban social services, and the strengths and vulnerabilities of the human spirit. [16 Apr 2000, p.K-09]
Sep 19, 2013
Season 1 Review:
But what's amazing, maybe even revolutionary, about The Corner is this: as its narrative plays out in six laid-back, detail-packed, one-hour installments, you come to see that all the major characters don't belong in this place, in this life. [16 Apr 2000, p.1]
Sep 19, 2013
Season 1 Review:
By opening up the drug world, transforming political constructs into complex, fascinating human beings as lovable (and hateful) as you and me, The Corner does compelling public service. It should be required viewing for public officials. [16 Apr 2000, p.101]
Sep 19, 2013
Season 1 Review:
The Corner, which is more daring than "The Sopranos," deserves some of the critical hosannas showered on the mob series. [16 Apr 2000, p.F1]
Sep 19, 2013
Season 1 Review:
Powerful stuff. [16 Apr 2000]
Sep 19, 2013
Season 1 Review:
Despair and hopelessness form the intersection at which Charles Dutton studies a drug-addled world that's painfully real and overwhelming. [17 Apr 2000, p.37]
Sep 19, 2013
Season 1 Review:
Human beings live on the corner, and "The Corner" makes us care about them. [16 Apr 2000, p.D15]
Sep 19, 2013
Season 1 Review:
Even to an audience growing increasingly used to gritty televised fare,it's a tough look, indeed. [26 Apr 2000, p.3E]
Sep 19, 2013
Season 1 Review:
One could build a college sociology course around whether The Corner does more harm than good. Either side could make a strong case...At last check, though, this is still a free country. And HBO is both unbeholden to skittish advertisers and seemingly impervious to pressure groups. On broadcast networks, that combination has spurred the quick demise of provocative series such as Nothing Sacred; The PJs; God, the Devil and Bob; and Wonderland...For better or worse, television has never seen anything quite like it. [16 Apr 2000, p.1C]
Sep 19, 2013
Season 1 Review:
A powerful, engrossing yet sometimes hard to watch six-hour elegy. [14 Apr 2000, p.39]
Sep 19, 2013
Season 1 Review:
Assuming the perspectives of its characters, the series avoids cliches and condescension; the performances are remarkably free of the cheap mannerisms actors often resort to when playing addicts. But this insiders' view is still undermined by the tone of a cautionary tale. The fact that the series makes a plea to understand the characters' humanity, rather than a judgment about them, doesn't make it less didactic.
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