The Good Cop
Netflix | Release Date: September 21, 2018
CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
53
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 15 Critic Reviews
Positive:
3
Mixed:
12
Negative:
0
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
83
Entertainment WeeklyKristen BaldwinSep 17, 2018
Season 1 Review: Good Cop blends the cheerful silliness of Brooklyn Nine-Nine with the tidy storytelling of Breckman’s other crime comedy, Monk, and it elevates the familiar police-show formula with a strong ensemble cast. Read full review
80
TV GuideMalcolm VenableSep 17, 2018
Season 1 Review: The Good Cop is a cop procedural that follows its own sort of formula, one that injects some warmth, some innocence and breezy, goofy delight into this typically testosterone-filled space. Where's the crime in that? Read full review
70
Los Angeles TimesLorraine AliSep 20, 2018
Season 1 Review: The Good Cop is a solid, traditional detective sitcom for viewers seeking the solace of a simpler time, before cable and disruptive streaming services altered the landscape with weird shows like “Stranger Things.” And ironically, it’s brought to you by Netflix. Read full review
60
Boston GlobeMatthew GilbertSep 21, 2018
Season 1 Review: The old-school show is easy to take, but the denouements can be seen from miles away, and Danza continues to have the kind of intensity that you either love or hate. Read full review
58
The A.V. ClubPilot ViruetSep 21, 2018
Season 1 Review: The Good Cop is all over the place, which often makes it amusing to watch, though perhaps not in the way the creator intended. ... But, there is something almost... pleasant about The Good Cop. It’s light, sometimes fun, and casually watchable. Read full review
58
Uncle BarkyEd BarkSep 20, 2018
Season 1 Review: There’s nothing wrong in aspiring to be purely entertaining. Good Cop is quite good at that in Episode 1, but pretty much falls on its face in the second hour. Each story ends with a newspaper headline teasing the next one. Read full review
50
Vox.comKaren HanSep 21, 2018
Season 1 Review: In the end, the show never quite proves its case as worth watching. It’s fine enough, but it will need to make a stronger case for itself going forward--just as Caruso Jr. needs to step out of his father’s shadow--in order to bring audiences back for a second season. Read full review
50
New York Magazine (Vulture)Matt Zoller SeitzSep 21, 2018
Season 1 Review: [Danza's] not an especially deep actor, and neither he nor the show seem inclined to do anything that’ll really rattle us and make us ask if it’s okay to like this guy and think of him as an essentially good-hearted eccentric who has many useful things to teach us if only we’d listen. Read full review
50
NewsdayVerne GaySep 19, 2018
Season 1 Review: The show doesn't demand to be binged, but sampled. It could air on USA just as easily. Danza, who doesn't break from type, is another steady reminder of TV past, specifically his own. Why this is on Netflix is a mystery bigger than any the Carusos will tackle this season. Read full review
45
CNNBrian LowrySep 21, 2018
Season 1 Review: Feels too much like the third or fourth best series on USA network. Read full review
42
IndieWireBen TraversSep 21, 2018
Season 1 Review: The Good Cop never aims to be anything more than an amiable distraction. ... Danza is a big personality filling a character with a big personality. Groban is the opposite for both, and no matter how great Danza gets, the odd couple dynamic doesn’t work when one guy’s doing all the work. Read full review
40
The New York TimesMike HaleSep 21, 2018
Season 1 Review: Why does “The Good Cop” feel so much more dull, clunky and antiquated than “Monk” did? The obvious, and at least partly correct, answer is that some things that worked in 2009 no longer work in 2018. But the more immediate lesson is the difference one actor can make. Read full review
40
The Hollywood ReporterTim GoodmanSep 20, 2018
Season 1 Review: Thoroughly (maddeningly?) vanilla in so many devious ways that even the font for the logo and the manipulatively easy theme song and background music feel like a kind of manufactured nostalgia to sedate the masses. Read full review
40
RogerEbert.comBrian TallericoSep 19, 2018
Season 1 Review: This is at the root of the problem with The Good Cop--it could have been called “The Dumb Cop.” Every episode hinges on one of the Tonys, or often both, not seeing something that’s staring them in the face. The supporting cast doesn’t lessen the disappointment. Read full review
40
VarietyDaniel D'AddarioSep 17, 2018
Season 1 Review: A show with frustratingly little on its mind, The Good Cop quickly establishes its two leads as familiar personality types and then reiterates who they are, over and over, for ten episodes, with little modulation or development. Worse, for a show that sets up and solves a new mystery every episode, the show relies on the utter lack of intelligence of both its two leads and everyone around them. Read full review
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