Lights Out
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Universal acclaim- based on 37 Ratings
- Summary: An FX drama project sees a former boxing champion struggling with the beginning of dementia take a job as a collector. The project is penned by feature film writer of The Bucket List Justin Zackham.
- Genre(s): Sports, Drama, Sports
- Show Type: Ended
- Season 1 premiere date: Jan 11, 2011
- Episode Length: 60
- Air Time: 10:00 PM
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Positive: 22 out of 25
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Mixed: 3 out of 25
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Negative: 0 out of 25
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100Beneath the grit, this is a tale of chivalry. [31 Jan 2011, p.40]
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80If many of these plot and character elements are straight off the bargain shelf at the Boxing Melodrama R Us superstore, Lights nonetheless gives them new life--partly thanks to a superlative cast and partly because the show resists the biggest cliche of all: the boxer as innocent victim of poverty and circumstance.
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80Lights Out starts slower but has an even more intriguing anti-hero dad: Patrick "Lights" Leary (in a beautiful and subtle performance by Holt McCallany), a retired heavyweight champion with itchy fists.
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60Though deliberately and even artfully paced, Lights Out also feels protracted. It has difficulty establishing momentum in its first few episodes, even with a smattering of intriguing subplots and story lines, and no one character exerts that intangible ability to make us keep watching.
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Positive: 11 out of 12
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Negative: 1 out of 12
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