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38Is there anything here that Bruce Springsteen hasn't already sung about? [19 Mar 2007, p.39]
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30Here, I guess, is a dude's version of an ABC chick show.
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30[It] feels like a Hallmark movie stretched into series form.
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25A rote TV drama.
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25A sort of perfect storm of bad writing.
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25The acting is OK, but not so OK that you can overlook their model-good-looks. I mean, no town can be that full of perfect specimens. But you would have thought Hollywood couldn't be so full of bad writers either.
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25An appalling combination of precious and pretentious.
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20I kept waiting for the unexpected beat, the surprising plot riff, the inverted cliche , but they never came.
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20The stories trudge along like a semi on a steep uphill grade. Taken as a whole, the show looks more like something pasted together for potential demographic appeal than anyone's dramatic vision.
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20All of the characters speak in the same exposition-heavy voice; their individual quirks... are too calculated to be interesting; and the soundtrack is both too on-the-nose... and, for the most part, 10-15 years too old for the characters.
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20"October Road" is perhaps one of the most clumsily plotted, illogical drama pilots to be produced in years.
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12It's a coming-of-age story so overwrought and emotionally predictable, it's -- what's the word here? -- unwatchable.
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10It almost seems to thrive on triteness and lack of cohesion.
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10The series... exists as the kind of bad soap opera that quickly allows you to see what makes a good one.
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10[It] can pack more cliches into 10 minutes than bad old WB dramas had in an hour.
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10The show is as commercial and mechanical as an entry-level Mercedes, but not as emotionally involving.
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10There's nothing unexpected here, and certainly no adventure, just who's sleeping with whom, and who's the daddy, and why they're still so juvenile, and how Tom Berenger ended up in this soapy soup.
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0This wretched show not only features a lead character who is an unredeemable nitwit but dialogue that manages to be leaden, preposterous and pretentious all at once.
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0To put it mildly, and succinctly, it's appalling.
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0The woeful sub-Dawson's Creek dialogue caused me actual pain.
User score distribution:
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Positive: 91 out of 104
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Mixed: 1 out of 104
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Negative: 12 out of 104
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EmmieS10This is the most realistic show on television. I can relate to the characters as if they were my friends back home.
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TracyR.10
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AliW10