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Ken Tucker

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New York Magazine film critic.

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RoboCop: Season 1 (1994) 76% EDIT “For a cheesy-looking action show, RoboCop boasts scripts that are far more dense and allusive than most of the junk cluttering syndication.” – Entertainment Weekly Mar 11, 2026 Full Review Heartbeat: Season 1 (2016) 16% EDIT “Given the fact that Heartbeat tries to present Alex as a feminist role-model, it's unfortunate that she is defined almost entirely by the men around her.” – Yahoo! TV Nov 4, 2025 Full Review Stephen King's Golden Years: Season 1 (1991) 60% B+ EDIT “The writer’s achievement here is to have provided us with the video equivalent of a good summer read — Golden Years is entertaining and substantial at the same time.” – Entertainment Weekly Oct 22, 2025 Full Review Martin: Season 1 (1992) 29% B+ EDIT “Any given week's plot is nothing special; Lawrence, however, is. He doesn't just give trite jokes a spin, he turns ordinary words into laugh getters.” – Entertainment Weekly Feb 12, 2024 Full Review Degrassi Junior High: Season 1 (1987) EDIT “Degrassi Junior High will have to do a better job of balancing its lessons with interesting drama.” – Philadelphia Inquirer Feb 9, 2024 Full Review A Different World: Season 1 (1987) 11% EDIT “A Different World makes college look like an all-day slumber party. Nonetheless, Bonet offers herself as an idealized portrait of '80s college youth, and does a good job of it.” – Philadelphia Inquirer Feb 9, 2024 Full Review Angel: Season 1 (1999) 91% B+ EDIT “Faced with the job of doing more than delivering a (again, Cordelia’s words) ”crabby scowl,” [David Boreanaz]’s made his character richer, deeper: a flawed, sometimes flummoxed, always agonized good guy. ” – Entertainment Weekly Oct 12, 2022 Full Review Quantum Leap: Season 1 (1989) 74% EDIT “As this series proceeds, Quantum Leap will have to do more than trade on Dean Stockwell's erratic star power, or it'll soon take a quantum leap to cancellation.” – Philadelphia Inquirer Aug 16, 2022 Full Review Freddy's Nightmares: Season 1 (1988) 38% EDIT “If anything, I think television needs more of the sort of aesthetic daring displayed on Freddy's Nightmares.” – Philadelphia Inquirer Jun 1, 2022 Full Review New Monkees: Season 1 (1987) 20% EDIT “The people behind New Monkees seem to have stopped thinking once the casting was over. The new guys aren't given anything amusing to say, and the music is warmed-over Duran Duran pop-rock. ” – Philadelphia Inquirer May 20, 2022 Full Review Millennium: Season 1 (1996) 69% EDIT “Although Millennium hasn't quite found its tone, it's got great visuals and a commanding performance by Henriksen, whose tired eyes and rumbly voice are mood enhancing.” – Entertainment Weekly Oct 14, 2021 Full Review Lonesome Dove: Season 1 (1989) 98% EDIT “Pokey, jokey, smokey, but never hokey, Lonesome Dove is like the longest story anyone ever told you over a campfire, a sustained anecdote about the Old West that's probably the most purely enjoyable miniseries ever made.” – Philadelphia Inquirer Oct 7, 2021 Full Review thirtysomething: Season 1 (1987) 78% EDIT “If you're in your 30s and trying to think of a reason not to have kids, you're gonna love thirtysomething. Never has parenthood looked less appealing.” – Philadelphia Inquirer Mar 2, 2021 Full Review Star Trek: The Next Generation: Season 1 (1987) 91% EDIT “Star Trek has always ben heavy-handed in the message department. The good news is that Star Trek: The Next Generation does its famous precursor proud.” – Philadelphia Inquirer Mar 2, 2021 Full Review St. Elsewhere: Season 6 (1987) 95% EDIT “The show was excessive, self-indulgent and wildly imaginative.” – Philadelphia Inquirer Jan 14, 2021 Full Review Will & Grace: Season 1 (2017) 89% EDIT “The return of Will & Grace after an absence of 11 years is pretty much a success. If you liked it before, you'll probably be pleased with the new episodes, which are well-executed and excellently performed.” – Yahoo! TV Jan 8, 2021 Full Review American Grit: Season 1 (2016) 63% EDIT “American Grit is sluggishly paced, and plays like one of those weeks on Survivor when everyone is just waiting for the visit from their "loved ones" so they can cry and hug a little before the next test of strength.” – Yahoo! TV Nov 18, 2020 Full Review Emily Owens, M.D.: Season 1 (2012) 33% C EDIT “I'd settle for an Emily Owens who acts more like a doctor and less like a 14-year-old.” – Entertainment Weekly Nov 13, 2020 Full Review Rock Center With Brian Williams: Season 1 (2011) 83% EDIT “Rock Center was lively without being crass, disappointing in that it didn't engage much in the news of the day. It could also use a voice other than Williams' - what about some good old fashioned op-ed commentary or cultural criticism?” – Entertainment Weekly Oct 13, 2020 Full Review NY Med: Season 1 (2012) 100% EDIT “There is, in short, one surprise after another on NY Med, and you shouldn't miss any of them.” – Entertainment Weekly Oct 1, 2020 Full Review Beyond Scared Straight: Season 1 (2011) 100% EDIT “Shapiro's high-mindedness now meshes nicely with A&E's low-mindedness, where shows like Hoarders, Heavy, and reruns of Criminal Minds thrive.” – Entertainment Weekly Sep 30, 2020 Full Review Outsourced: Season 1 (2010) 34% EDIT “I said Outsourced was careful -- too careful, probably, to be very funny... I liked Rizwan Manji as Rajiv... I also thought Diedrich Bader did his usual excellent job.” – Entertainment Weekly Sep 10, 2020 Full Review The Marriage Ref: Season 1 (2010) 33% EDIT “I thought The Marriage Ref was silly fun.” – Entertainment Weekly Aug 27, 2020 Full Review The Real Housewives of D.C.: Season 1 (2010) 13% EDIT “Housewives of D.C. is filled with climbers on their way to... where? It's not as though they're striving to become Beltway power-brokers the way the careerists on New York strive in becoming Manhattan media figures.” – Entertainment Weekly Aug 11, 2020 Full Review Kell on Earth: Season 1 (2010) 80% B EDIT “Whether she's dressing down an overdressed underling or trying to find a boyfriend for her "glam, goth, grunge" assistant Andrew, Cutrone is relentless, angry, and funny. Not hellish, just pure Kell-ish.” – Entertainment Weekly Aug 10, 2020 Full Review
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