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Standoff

Summary Matt Flannery and Emily Lehman are top-ranked crisis negotiators in the FBI's Crisis Negotiation Unit who are trained to talk their way through volatile situations. They make an outstanding team professionally, but their relationship is a bit more precarious off the job. The series advances the fundamental idea that in life and in love "...

Created By: Craig Silverstein

  • 2006
  • TV-14
  • FOX
  • 2006
  • TV-14
  • FOX

Standoff

Season 1 Premiere: 2006
Metascore Generally Unfavorable Based on 20 Critic Reviews
37
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Summary Matt Flannery and Emily Lehman are top-ranked crisis negotiators in the FBI's Crisis Negotiation Unit who are trained to talk their way through volatile situations. They make an outstanding team professionally, but their relationship is a bit more precarious off the job. The series advances the fundamental idea that in life and in love "...

Created By: Craig Silverstein

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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable Based on 20 Critic Reviews
37
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2 Reviews
40% Mixed
8 Reviews
50% Negative
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Generally Unfavorable Based on 20 Critic Reviews
37
10% Positive
2 Reviews
40% Mixed
8 Reviews
50% Negative
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75
Standoff doesn't recreate the genre, but it certainly refreshes it. [15 Sep 2006, p.64]
By Gillian Flynn FULL REVIEW
50
From start to finish, "Standoff" is slickly contrived, formulaic crime drama nonsense.
By Mike Duffy FULL REVIEW
40
"Standoff" does seem to emerge miraculously out of the fumes of '70s TV - a near-perfect reformulation of every bone-weary cliche, every hackneyed piece of cop chatter (Dan Tanna lives!) that last-century TV glorified in.
By Verne Gay FULL REVIEW
38
If Matt and Emily blow up, the show doesn't get a second episode. Because they'll be dead. Keep your fingers crossed.
By Doug Elfman FULL REVIEW
30
The tonal dissonance in "Standoff" is deafening, like pairing up, say, Jewel and Meat Loaf for a duet.
By Matthew Gilbert FULL REVIEW
20
The series premiere suffers from a catalog of problems longer than most demand lists.
By Barry Garron FULL REVIEW
10
An awkward pairing of adult relationship drama and procedural cop show, "Standoff" bombs on both counts.
By Phil Gallo FULL REVIEW

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Production Company:
  • 20th Century Fox Television
  • Sesfonstein Productions
Initial Release Date: 2006
Number of seasons: 1 Season
Rating: TV-14
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Primetime Emmy Awards
• 1 Nomination
Il Festival Nazionale del Doppiaggio Voci nell'Ombra
• 1 Nomination

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