• Network: CBS
  • Series Premiere Date: Sep 16, 1987
Season #: 4, 3, 2, 1
Metascore
56

Mixed or average reviews - based on 7 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 7
  2. Negative: 2 out of 7
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Critic Reviews

  1. Newsday
    Reviewed by: Marvin Kitman
    Jul 12, 2013
    100
    Had something special about it from the start: the mood, the writing, the acting. All the great series establish a mis-en-scene, a special environment that you can cut with a knife. I felt I was in a different place watching "Wiseguy." [30 May 1988]
  2. Miami Herald
    Reviewed by: Steve Sonsky
    Feb 5, 2014
    90
    It's a simple idea with deceptively intriguing permutations. Plus, it's extremely well- made, to boot -- if, occasionally, inevitably, cliche-crazed. But hey -- it is TV. [16 Sept 1987, p.D1]
  3. Chicago Tribune
    Reviewed by: Clifford Terry
    Feb 5, 2014
    80
    Coming from Cannell, Wiseguy is, of course, all sweat and swagger, bullets and babes, breeziness and bravado. Men's bowling teams are advised to schedule their nights around this one.[16 Sept 1987, p.7C]