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Head Cases
SERIES: Fox, Wednesday 9:00p (60 minutes)


5.8

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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.

GENRE(S):	Comedy, Drama
CREATED BY:	Bill Chais
FIRST AIR DATE:	September 14, 2005
LAST AIR DATE:	September 21, 2005

"Head Cases" became the first of the new Fall 2005 shows to be cancelled, airing just two episodes before Fox pulled the plug.

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...

Miami Herald Glenn Garvin

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

Chicago Sun-Times Doug Elfman

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

Hollywood Reporter Barry Garron

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

PopMatters Samantha Bornemann

The Practice should have been this much fun.

New York Post Linda Stasi

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

Kansas City Star Aaron Barnhart

An uneven but so far entertaining buddy show.

Los Angeles Times Robert 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.

Chicago Tribune Sid 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.

The New York Times Alessandra Stanley

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

Variety Brian 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.

Boston Globe Matthew 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.

New York Magazine John Leonard

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

USA Today Robert Bianco

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

Newsday Diane Werts

Too many moments feel false, overblown or contrived.

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Rob Owen

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

Seattle Post-Intelligencer Melanie 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.

New York Daily News David Hinckley

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

Orlando Sentinel Hal Boedeker

One of the more embarrassing new series this season.

San Francisco Chronicle Tim Goodman

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

San Jose Mercury News Charlie McCollum

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

Philadelphia Inquirer Jonathan 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.

Washington Post Tom 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.

The average user rating for this tv 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!

Head Cases SERIES: Fox, Wednesday 9:00p (60 minutes)

Head Cases
SERIES: Fox, Wednesday 9:00p (60 minutes)