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88If "Runaway" is a harbinger of things to come, it, er, harbinges very well indeed!
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83A good and likable cast combine with thoughtful writing to make this family/thriller (a new genre?) worth watching.
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70This is an intriguing blend of The Fugitive and The O.C.: half suspense and half intergenerational melodrama.
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70Think The Fugitive meets Beverly Hills 90210 done dark and brooding.
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67Just two episodes in, and this series threatens to rattle down the wrong track. [6 Oct 2006, p.60]
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63Yes, it's "Fugitive ... With Children." But "Runaway"... actually is pretty good, mostly because this family doesn't always get along.
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63You go on the lam, and you find Laguna Beach. [2 Oct 2006, p.45]
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63It's one of those midlevel, decently entertaining dramas you're most inclined to watch when nothing else in the time slot excites you.
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60The real pleasure lies in the adjustment problems of a seemingly normal suburban family leading a terrifying secret life.
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60For adults, the thing plays a little like Fox's Prison Break.
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60"Runaway" is decent, the kind of show some might acknowledge as pretty good while saying, in the next breath, that it probably wouldn't make it.
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60Minor but deftly done.
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60The opening episode is solidly done and pretty entertaining. But a fifth season of "Everwood" would have been a much better fit in the time slot following "7th Heaven."
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60If it keeps its balance and cuts back on some of the more implausible moments in the first hour, this series could be a keeper.
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50We've seen this on-the-lam material many times before, and it offers very familiar family tensions.
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40Runaway is neither credible nor exciting.
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40"Runaway" is passable as far as it goes, which, despite its title, isn't very far.
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40As much as the direction and writing capture appropriate tension in the pilot, they allow it to go slack in the second [episode].
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40"Runaway" is no "Everwood," which featured complex characters and an exploration of social issues. "Runaway" is far more pedestrian -- "The Fugitive" with a family -- but it may not be any better of a fit with its lead-in "7th Heaven."
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38"Runaway" isn't offensively awful. It's passively poor.
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38One of those series that looks great on paper but ends up less-than-thrilling on the screen.
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30"Runaway" begs your interest (who doesn't like a road trip story, even when the Feds aren't on your tail?) before fading for lack of energy, not to mention originality.
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30At times, things veer so far off center that running from the feds seems like a distraction from the more important story of teen romance and angst, just another annoyance like a sudden zit or a dropped call.
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30"Runaway" is like a Frankenstein's monster stitched together from pieces of dead shows from both networks.
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20It's slow. It's dull. It's listless.
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[Anonymous]10Runaway is like the best show ever. It has to come back!!!!!!!!....some how some way it should be put back on the air.....really great show
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MelodyS9