The Guardian

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Season 1
  • 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. Mixed: 14 out of 27
  3. Negative: 4 out of 27
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  1. 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]
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  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]
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  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]
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  5. USA Today
    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.