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EMAILPRINTSERIES: Fox, Wednesday 9:00p (60 minutes)

Head Cases
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5.8 User Score:

Mixed or average reviews

Based on 22 critic reviews
How did we calculate this?

Based on 8 votes
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Show Info

Genre(s): Comedy, Drama

Created By: Bill Chais

First Air Date: September 14, 2005

Summary

Starring Chris O'Donnell, Adam Goldberg, Rockmond Dunbar, Krista Allen, and Jake Cherry

As frequently happens in real life, two mentally unstable lawyers meet through a shared therapist and go into business together.

What The Critics Said

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...

90

Miami HeraldGlenn Garvin

A gaspingly funny show that you ought to watch early and often.

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88

Chicago Sun-TimesDoug Elfman

The show's appeal is its breezy verbiage and well-suited cast.

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70

Hollywood ReporterBarry Garron

Part improbable comedy, part unrealistic drama, "Head Cases" is nonetheless a clever series that gets incredible mileage out of its two central characters.

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70

PopMattersSamantha Bornemann

The Practice should have been this much fun.

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63

New York PostLinda Stasi

A show with a promising premise that could be a winner.

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60

Kansas City StarAaron Barnhart

An uneven but so far entertaining buddy show.

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60

Los Angeles TimesRobert Lloyd

It's too schematic by half, the banter rarely ascends to the level and wit, and it contains barely a believable moment... but it is not without a certain energy and cast-based charm.

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60

Chicago TribuneSid Smith

"Head Cases" might have more of a chance if it gets a little bit sharper, edgier, funnier and surprising. But it's a likable, potentially promising premise, buoyed by the expert casting of its leads.

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60

The New York TimesAlessandra Stanley

Mostly, it is a case load borrowed from "L.A. Law" and "Boston Legal." But the two troubled lawyers are amusing.

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50

VarietyBrian Lowry

Although the show works a little too hard at being quirky, "Head Cases" does deliver a pair of well-defined protagonists, but initially not the kind of obsessive-compulsive magnetism it will need to flourish in a pretty inhospitable timeslot.

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40

Boston GlobeMatthew Gilbert

The marriage of opposites is a simplistic and overused premise for a TV series, and ''Head Cases" doesn't travel very far beyond it.

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40

New York MagazineJohn Leonard

All alone, Goldberg is beside himself, as if Ben Stiller and Adam Sandler struggled for possession of his soul.

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38

USA TodayRobert Bianco

O'Donnell is humorless, formless and vacant; Goldberg is manic and grating.

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30

NewsdayDiane Werts

Too many moments feel false, overblown or contrived.

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30

Pittsburgh Post-GazetteRob Owen

The show is neither funny enough to be a comedy nor dramatic enough to be an engaging drama.

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30

Seattle Post-IntelligencerMelanie McFarland

Had "Boston Legal" not perfected the art of office insanity, "Head Cases" ... actually, nope, can't even say it would have a shot in that circumstance.

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25

New York Daily NewsDavid Hinckley

"Head Cases" has good leading men but a crushingly bad premise.

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20

Orlando SentinelHal Boedeker

One of the more embarrassing new series this season.

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12

San Francisco ChronicleTim Goodman

The predictability and triteness of "Head Cases" make it difficult to type even a sentence in favor of any part of this series.

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10

San Jose Mercury NewsCharlie McCollum

This is David E. Kelley on his worst days with wildly improbable plot developments and much forced humor.

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10

Philadelphia InquirerJonathan Storm

The title could have many meanings, but primarily it refers to the people, all 27 of them, who might find something to like in this misfit buddy-lawyer dramedy.

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0

Washington PostTom Shales

Most of the shows now on network television, whether repugnant or tolerable or actually worthwhile, are competently and professionally directed, edited and photographed, but "Head Cases" is a mess even as a piece of storytelling.

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What Our Users Said

The average user rating for this show is 5.8 (out of 10) based on 8 User Votes

Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Millie H gave it an8:
This is a good show. Needs to develope the characters but has possibilities.

steve W gave it an8:
I liked this show very much. I am so tired of watching other peoples awful children, swapping of parents and kiddy porn 90210. Bring back television the way it was ment to be watched, with a plot and a story.

Cindy J gave it an8:
Put it back on...take this other crap off.

Joyce M gave it an8:
This was a nice light change from all the blood, gore and rape of the overload of violence on TV.

james c gave it a0:
Got canceled in two episodes shows how it was.

Janis B gave it an8:
Light no brainer relaxing comedy......just what I needed at the end of the day!

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