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88"Daniel" is not that controversial, but is really pretty damned, oops, darned good.
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88Witty, earnest, intelligent, overdone, overly ambitious, wildly entertaining and superbly cast.
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80Darkly comedic and richly entertaining.
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75A well-written and well-cast, if broadly drawn, show.
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75A program that gets stronger as we get to know its characters better, and the quality of the cast helps tremendously.
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75An offbeat treat worth rooting for.
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70While the story and drama aren't always successful, and occasionally border on the cloying or trite, "Daniel" is something fresh, mildly provocative and amusingly performed.
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70Borders on terrific at times and falters in others.
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70Whimsical and busy, "Daniel" is overly ambitious but highly watchable, with an interlocking web of smart-ass, squabbling but ultimately loving characters.
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70Thankfully, we are spared the misty earnestness of "Seventh Heaven."
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70"The Book of Daniel" turns out to be something rare to network television these days. It is a rich family drama that isn't afraid of dealing with real issues in a real way and with humor, falling somewhere between "Six Feet Under" and the late, lamented "Once and Again."
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60The cast is heavenly in The Book of Daniel; the writing isn't.
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60It yearns to be an HBO-worthy drama that reckons with heady moral issues, but it can't resist the temptation of prime-time gloss and melodrama.
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60You may feel the faith-and-family themes could be handled better on cable--mainly because they have been.
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60These actors help save the show from pure whimsy and excess.
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60A well-intentioned drama with a few comedic quirks but without depth or greater purpose.
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60Quinn radiates enough sincerity to make us keep reading this uneven book, just to see how it shapes up.
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60It's disappointing that Kenny felt the need to make this series so far over the top, because at its core, there's a great family show worth watching.
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50This is a series that throws so much lunacy into the plotlines that even the writers on "Dynasty" must be hissing.
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50The Book of Daniel is different and ambitious enough to bear watching at least for a little while.
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30Despite a fine cast... in the end it works neither as comedy, satire, drama nor soap opera.
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30The real mark against "The Book of Daniel" is not any antipathy it might show toward the family or sympathy for the devil. The real objection is that it's just not very good.
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0I cannot recall a series in which a greater number of characters seemed so desperately detestable -- a series with a larger population of loathsome dolts. There ought to be a worse punishment than cancellation for a show that tries this hard to be offensive and, even at that crass task, manages to fail.
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Positive: 66 out of 142
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Mixed: 3 out of 142
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Negative: 73 out of 142
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LCrisholm2Tom Shales said it best: Tries desperately to be as incessantly offensive as often as possible on every subject possible -- and fails even at that.
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MarthaR10Refreshing - crazy like life - I should know - I'm a Bishop's daughter!
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MJohnson10