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Lock N' Load: Season 1
  • Network: Showtime
  • Series Premiere Date: Oct 21, 2009
  • Season #: 1
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47 out of 100

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  • Summary: The reality show uses hidden cameras to capture the reasons behind customers' purchases at actor Josh T. Ryan's family-owned gun shop.
  • Genre(s): Reality

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 10
  2. Mixed: 6 out of 10
  3. Negative: 2 out of 10
  1. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Kate Ward
    75
    NRA enthusiasts might be the target audience for this reality show about a Colorado gun shop, but Lock manages to have mainstream appeal, thanks to its focus on the store's quirky customers (a shank-holding old lady, a gun-loving pastor, etc.).
  2. Miami Herald
    Reviewed by: Glenn Garvin
    60
    Watching Logan hand small children assault rifles for inspection will no doubt amuse gun nuts and enrage anti-gun nuts. And both camps are likely to blink at one of the (surprisingly numerous) female customers who--jokingly asked if she's carrying a weapon--whips out three concealed knives.
  3. Newsday
    Reviewed by: Verne Gay
    25
    We get some slightly bent soccer moms and dads debriefed by an impossibly cheery, cheesy, chummy game-show host. Showtime must have thought there would be great humor and irony in the mundane exchanges recorded here. But it miscalculated. Badly.

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  1. skips
    10
    my son and i love the show. josh is a great salesperson. i point out how comfortable he make people feel. my son learns how to deal with people and make them feel important. the guns are secondary. how can i email josh?… Expand
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  2. DanielleB
    10
    Sexy Sexy Sexy. Nothing like a sexy rockabilly with a gun. Being funny is plus too, go SHOWTIME
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  3. royh
    0
    This show is very annoying. As a second amendment supporter, gun owner and nra member I am embarrassed by the way business is conducted in this gun shop. Much of this so called reality show is obviously staged and scripted. The main character or should I say actor is careless and simply looking to make a name for himself. I have purchased firearms in many shops in Pennsylvania and Virginia and it is always done professionally and you never see dealers laying out multiple weapons and letting children play with the guns. If this is how shooters conducts business then they should be shut down. This show makes law abiding gun owners (mostly professional, intelligent people) seem like careless idiots. I truly hope that showtime does not pick up this reality series. Especially since there is absolutely nothing REAL about it!… Expand
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