Critic Reviews
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Baltimore Sun David Zurawik
"Landmark" barely starts to describe it. |
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Boston Globe Matthew Gilbert
The 17 episodes on the DVD set are extraordinary, with few false notes among them -- and more than enough good notes to compensate. |
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LA Weekly Robert Abele
Overlapping dialogue, countless characters, envelope-pushing humor, adult relationships, smartly observed dialogue, a sun-up-to-sundown time frame per episode -- Hill Street Blues forever made a particular brand of good guys/bad guys hour instantly ancient, willfully disrupting the purity of a cops-and-robbers consciousness that had been the calcified norm in prime time. |
| 100 |
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Barbara Vancheri
Its chaotic roll call, its use of handheld cameras, its grittiness, its layered stories and its talented cast of regulars are timeless. |
| 80 |
IGN Filip Vukcevic
If you are a television-lover, no matter what your favorite genre, decade, or creator, you owe it to yourself to watch this show. |
| 80 |
Amazon.com Donald Liebenson
Once daring, Hill Street Blues seems almost quaint today... But the human dramas at the heart of Hill Street still make for arresting television. |
| 75 |
Entertainment Weekly Ken Tucker
HBO and Bochco's own subsequent series NYBD Blue have rendered Blues' innovations tame. [3 Feb 2006, p.59] |
| 70 |
Newsday Noel Holston
Freed from expectations of realism, "Hill Street" now plays as funny as the best sitcoms of its era. |
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Kansas City Star Aaron Barnhart
After “Cops,” “Hill Street Blues” may be the funniest police show ever made. |
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