A facile but likable send-up of how things (don't) work in Hollywood.
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05/10/07
The TV Set (2007)
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Reviews Counted:25
Fresh:17
Rotten:8
Average Rating:6.4/10
Consensus: Offering both broad and insider jokes, The TV Set is a sharp satire that will please both the average moviegoers and pop culture aficionados.
Theatrical Release:Apr 6, 2007 Limited
Box Office: $34,531
Synopsis: Go to any bar in Hollywood and you're sure to find a hard-done-by writer who is drowning his or her sorrows after being chewed up and spat out by the network television system. In THE TV SET, Mike... [More]
Starring: David Duchovny, Sigourney Weaver, Ioan Gruffudd, Judy Greer
Director: Jake Kasdan
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Reviews for The TV Set
Top CriticThis satire settles for simply restating the obvious.
05/05/07
Top CriticA somewhat cold and calculated film that apparently unconsciously exemplifies that which it intends to criticize.
05/04/07
Top CriticWhile some of the gags may be a little too inside baseball, anyone who has seen Broadcast News or reads the occasional issue of 'Entertainment Weekly' will have no problem understanding and enjoying Kasdan's chomp on the hand that once fed him.
05/04/07
Top CriticBland and compromised, it feels as if it's been fine-tuned and focus-grouped within an inch of its life.
04/27/07
Top CriticWriter-director Jake Kasdan has been through his share of meetings with production executives eager to share their ideas on improving his ideas, and in The TV Set, we see that dynamic play out from beginning to corrosive end.
04/27/07
Top CriticEveryone already knew showbiz is ridiculous, but the funniest example Kasdan can come up with is a manager who has never seen Taxi Driver.
04/27/07
Top CriticKasdan wisely doesn't make this about the big, bad bosses vs. the creative geniuses who won't compromise. It's a well-balanced look at a process, which, from the outside seems arbitrary and convoluted, but from the inside makes sense.
04/27/07
Top CriticVarious news stories have noted the movie's accuracy, which I don't doubt, but the blanket antipathy makes for a wearying and predictable story.
04/27/07
Top CriticThe TV Set, written and directed by Jake Kasdan, often possesses the gimlet-eyed wit of The Player or the mock docs of Christopher Guest.
04/23/07
Top CriticA tart, smart, closely observed satire of the television industry.
04/20/07
Top CriticA wickedly funny satire about the vast wasteland takes the position that shows aren't born dumb. They get that way because of network meddling and a widely held assumption that audiences prefer pabulum.
04/20/07
Top CriticCall me crazy, but there's a lot more going on in The TV Set than first meets the eye. You'll have major fun at this movie. But what makes it something special is the way [director] Kasdan laces the laughs with a sting.
04/13/07
Top CriticThe TV Set isn't in the same league with Network or The Player, but it's very good, and its cast is accomplished.
04/12/07
Top CriticThe TV Set skewers the television industry in a manner that occasionally feels familiar and at other times is humorously incisive.
04/09/07
Top CriticThe jokes are things people shooting a pilot might actually say; the telling episodes of vanity or stupidity are entirely believable.
04/09/07
Top Critic... wickedly funny ...
04/09/07
Top Critic... the movie deserves attention because of its sunlit graces, droll subtleties, terrific performances and soft-boiled rue.
04/09/07
Top CriticThe satire is unrelenting but not too broad; it stays close to common observation.
04/09/07
Top CriticVery smart, very funny movie about the making of a network sitcom is a cut-glass gem of a showbiz conceit.
04/05/07
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