The Beast
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Universal acclaim- based on 18 Ratings
- Summary: Patrick Swayze is a veteran FBI agent training his rookie partner in the art of deep undercover work.
- Genre(s): Drama, Action & Adventure
- Show Type: Ended
- Season 1 premiere date: Jan 15, 2009
- Episode Length: 60
- Air Time: 10:00 PM
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Positive: 6 out of 25
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70Patrick Swayze’s performance as an ungoverned F.B.I. man in The Beast, a new crime drama beginning on Thursday on A&E, is impressive for its resistance to cliche and remarkable for the mere fact of its execution.
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60It’s this credibility that makes The Beast go. Even when the show trots out cliches (rainy nights, junkie informants and strippers, a pretty blond neighbor/love interest for Ellis [Rose, played by Lindsay Pulsipher]), Charlie is compelling, his many performances jaggedy and surprising, his rhythms weird, his sense of humor entertainingly bleak.
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60While it follows the current cable pattern of taking dramas a little further than traditional broadcast shows, The Beast essentially serves up familiar cop fare.
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37Clearly, the show is aiming for urban grit. But that's hard to achieve when you're constantly distracting us with a ludicrous plot.
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