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John J. O'Connor

John J. O'Connor's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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Stephen King's Golden Years: Season 1 (1991) 60% EDIT “"Golden Years" promises to have a grand old time, in a fingernail-biting sense.” – New York Times Oct 22, 2025 Full Review Shogun: Season 1 (1980) 79% EDIT “Shogun faced a formidable problem with language. It failed to discover a workable solution. The use of untranslated Japanese is a ludicrous impediment to comprehension.” – New York Times Feb 27, 2024 Full Review New York Undercover: Season 1 (1994) 56% EDIT “The strength of this show is in the characters of Williams and Torres. Mr. Yoba and Mr. DeLorenzo have wasted no time getting perfectly on target.” – New York Times Feb 12, 2024 Full Review E/R: Season 1 (1984) 68% EDIT “E/R is a fairly standard sitcom, tumbling over one-line jokes that don't quite come off when matters of life and death are hovering in the immediate vicinity.” – New York Times Oct 11, 2022 Full Review Square Pegs: Season 1 (1982) 81% EDIT “Spicing a Facts of Life concoction with fistfuls of Fame, the situation comedy provides a nice, often sharp collection of school types.” – New York Times Jul 21, 2022 Full Review Buffalo Bill: Season 1 (1983) 84% EDIT “Mr. Coleman is at the top of his form in portraying the ever-so-slightly demented Buffalo Bill. A towering monument to self-love, Bill is too serious to be anything less than hysterical. ” – New York Times Jul 18, 2022 Full Review Duck Factory: Season 1 (1984) 70% EDIT “With Mr. Burns and Mr. Reynolds at the controls, the pacing is kept at the kind of perfect amble that keeps the characters and situations from tripping over each other. ” – New York Times May 24, 2022 Full Review Together We Stand: Season 1 (1986) 17% EDIT “The soundtrack audience is reduced to drawn-out ''aaaws.'' Groans would be more in order.” – New York Times Apr 18, 2022 Full Review Everybody Loves Raymond: Season 1 (1996) 77% EDIT “Mr. Romano has a knack for hilariously obsessing on life's most ordinary details. He's made for prime-time comedy, and Everybody Loves Raymond would seem to be his perfect vehicle.” – New York Times Oct 26, 2021 Full Review Saturday Night Live: Season 1 (1975) 89% EDIT “NBC has found itself a source for legitimate pride, a commodity in scarce supply at any network these days.” – New York Times Oct 6, 2021 Full Review Kung Fu: Season 1 (1972) 80% EDIT “Given the established format of the TV western, the new series is attempting a new direction, away from the "eye for an eye" brand of confrontation.” – New York Times Oct 5, 2021 Full Review Hogan Family: Season 1 (1986) 61% EDIT “It is always a pleasure to watch Miss Harper do wonders with her sense of timing in delivering a gag line, but this time around she is forced to prop up a somewhat limp situation almost single-handedly.” – New York Times Sep 23, 2021 Full Review The Waltons: Season 1 (1972) 77% EDIT “The Waltons deserve an audience. Competing with Mod Squad and The Flip Wilson Show at the same hour, it won't get one easily. If nothing else, it will be interesting to see if the public has any appetite for good family entertainment.” – New York Times Sep 15, 2021 Full Review Gloria: Season 1 (1982) 35% EDIT “Mr. Meredith, a wily acting veteran, can make a little energy go an awfully long way. Miss Struthers is, as usual, a problem.” – New York Times Sep 15, 2021 Full Review Webster: Season 1 (1983) 21% EDIT “Miss Clark and Mr. Karras work happily enough together to keep Webster moving along with acceptable zip.” – New York Times Aug 26, 2021 Full Review Hardcastle & McCormick: Season 1 (1983) 19% EDIT “The relationship between the two, which is the only new element this action contraption has going for it, will be crucial for survival. The start is at least promising.” – New York Times Aug 26, 2021 Full Review CHiPs: Season 1 (1977) 40% EDIT “Somewhere between a sanitized Starsky and Hutch and a Police Story concocted for adolescents, CHiPs is standard formula gambling on fluke success.” – New York Times Aug 24, 2021 Full Review Lou Grant: Season 1 (1977) 93% EDIT “The series gives every indication of being an affable addition to the schedule. It doesn't take itself too seriously, and yet it manages to convey a modicum of truth about the newspaper business.” – New York Times Aug 18, 2021 Full Review T.J. Hooker: Season 1 (1982) 15% EDIT “In its own manipulating way, T.J. Hooker is a fascinating creation.” – New York Times Aug 16, 2021 Full Review T.J. Hooker: Season 2 (1982) EDIT “Hooker is a street cop, a kind of Joseph Wambaugh ''blue knight".... In the world of television oversimplification, that much is minimally acceptable. But the weekly series seems to be veering quickly toward tired business-as-usual gimmicks.” – New York Times Aug 16, 2021 Full Review Remington Steele: Season 1 (1982) 67% EDIT “The premiere is curiously lifeless and drab, almost as if the entire project was done cheaply, which is unusual for a product coming out of MTM Enterprises.” – New York Times Aug 12, 2021 Full Review Murder, She Wrote: Season 1 (1984) 83% EDIT “Not taking itself very seriously, 'Murder, She Wrote' is a pleasant, almost old-fashioned entertainment, and it does not require a single screeching car chase. It deserves best wishes.” – New York Times Aug 3, 2021 Full Review The Love Boat: Season 1 (1977) 20% EDIT “Each vignette has its own separate writer and director, and that may account for a certain lumpiness of execution in the dreadful porridge of a conception.” – New York Times Aug 3, 2021 Full Review Trapper John, M.D.: Season 1 (1979) 22% EDIT “Constructed around treating victims of an office‐building fire, the first episode walks a thin line between being funny and tasteless.” – New York Times Jul 28, 2021 Full Review Knots Landing: Season 1 (1979) 18% EDIT “The characters run to easily identifiable types -- nice guys versus nasties. The situations are elementary -- sex, money and ambition. And the resolutions are inevitably comforting. Knots Landing has few pretensions to profundity or even subtlety.” – New York Times Jul 21, 2021 Full Review
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