• Network: CBS
  • Series Premiere Date: Sep 25, 2001
Season #: 3, 2, 1
Metascore
55

Mixed or average reviews - based on 27 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9 out of 27
  2. Negative: 4 out of 27
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  1. Reviewed by: Robert Bianco
    Sep 20, 2013
    37
    All of this pressure apparently has left Nick considerably annoyed, since whether solving the murder case or salvaging the corporate deal, one-note peevishness is pretty much all Baker conveys. You could get the impression he had been sentenced to do this show...We, however, are free to watch something else.
  2. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: David Bianculli
    Sep 19, 2013
    37
    If each hour of The Guardian represents one hour of its central character's 1,500-hour community-service sentence, Fallin should be Fallin short by about 1,487 hours. [25 Sept 2001, p.101]
  3. The Detroit News
    Reviewed by: Tom Long
    Sep 19, 2013
    25
    But Nicky Fallin is about as unlikable and uncomfortable a character as television audiences have ever been asked to care for. Maybe he would unfold splendidly over time. But it's doubtful he'll get that time. [25 Sept 2001, p.5B]
  4. Baltimore Sun
    Reviewed by: David Zurawik
    Sep 19, 2013
    20
    I swear I have no idea what The Guardian is supposed to be about. But I don't think the producers or CBS do, either. [25 Sept 2001, p.3E]