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Tarzan

Summary This thrilling, contemporary twist on the timeless legend of Tarzan turns the popular tale into an urban adventure, an intriguing mystery and, most of all, an unconventional crime drama. Two decades ago, young John Clayton's parents died in a plane crash and left him alone in the African jungle, where he grew up among apes and other wild...

  • WB
  • Oct 5, 2003
  • WB
  • Oct 5, 2003
Tarzan
Season 1
Season Premiere: Oct 5, 2003
Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 21 Critic Reviews
45
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Summary This thrilling, contemporary twist on the timeless legend of Tarzan turns the popular tale into an urban adventure, an intriguing mystery and, most of all, an unconventional crime drama. Two decades ago, young John Clayton's parents died in a plane crash and left him alone in the African jungle, where he grew up among apes and other wild...

Season Episodes

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Episode 1 • Oct 5, 2003
Pilot
The beginning of Tarzan and how he came to live in the deep jungle along side the surprisingly accepting gorillas.
Episode 2 • Oct 12, 2003
Secrets and Lies
Jane has to fend off her suspicious cop boyfriend while trying to track down a group of masked attackers in Central Park.
Episode 3 • Oct 19, 2003
Wages of Sin
Jane and Tarzan team-up to look for a kidnapped child.
Episode 4 • Oct 26, 2003
Rules of Engagement
A vigilante sniper is prowling the rooftops of New York City but he makes a big mistake when he puts Tarzan's girlfriend in his sights.
Episode 5 • Nov 2, 2003
Emotional Rescue
Jane's sister gets Tarzan to help free her best friend from the clutches of a possible serial killer.
Episode 6 • Nov 9, 2003
Surrender
The cat is out of the bag and now a citywide manhunt is looking for Tarzan. Jane is brought in for questioning.
Episode 7 • Nov 16, 2003
For Love of Country
On the run from the police Jane and Tarzan hide out in Sam's cabin in upstate New York. Two fellow police officers attempt to track them down.
Episode 8 • Nov 23, 2003
The End of the Beginning
Tarzan and Jane return to the city to face Richard Clayton and the murder charges they've been running from.

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 21 Critic Reviews
45
24% Positive
5 Reviews
33% Mixed
7 Reviews
43% Negative
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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 21 Critic Reviews
45
24% Positive
5 Reviews
33% Mixed
7 Reviews
43% Negative
9 Reviews

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70
Aug 7, 2014
[An] enjoyable and not insincere reworking of the much-reworked legend by Edgar Rice Burroughs.
By Virginia Heffernan FULL REVIEW
63
Aug 7, 2014
Oddly - and maybe miraculously - Tarzan doesn't go bad. In fact, it's pretty good, and it beats the hell out most of the junk being paraded in front of us this season ("Karen Sisco" excepted, of course!)
By Linda Stasi FULL REVIEW
50
Aug 7, 2014
Silly as it is, the show works as pop-mythic eye candy. The pilot alone a motherlode of iconic pictures. [3 Oct 2003, p.53]
By Matt Zoller Seitz FULL REVIEW
40
Aug 7, 2014
The real strain is in trying to turn Tarzan into a crime fighter like Spider-Man, complete with the gravity-defying leaps and whoosh-wham special effects. [4 Oct 2003, p.E6]
By Mark Dawidziak FULL REVIEW
37
Aug 7, 2014
As for story, Tarzan will remain trapped in monotony unless the writers can get him out of the city sometime (at least to the Catskills or Poconos), or bring in wild and bizarre comic book characters like the Batman series did. [5 Oct 2003, p.TV6]
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30
Aug 7, 2014
Much of Tarzan feels more like a marketing strategy than a show, and it seems to have a few flaws that "Smallville" doesn't. Chief among them is the incoherent plotline, which, in the pilot at least, does little to explain the motivations of Pileggi's character. [4 Oct 2003, p.D01]
By Chuck Barney FULL REVIEW
20
Aug 7, 2014
Me critic. You stink. [3 Oct 2003, p.3]
By Steve Johnson FULL REVIEW

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