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The New York Times ' Caryn James says it undermined the whole episode, making "Ambush" "something the show has never been before and isn't likely to be again: terminally dull."
One of four new law-and-crime dramas set in New York, this one--starring NYPD Blue 's David Caruso--wins praise as "a smartly conceived genre piece" (Caryn James, the New York Times ). Writer-producer Nicholas Pileggi ( GoodFellas ) gets credit for the show's verisimilitude.
Newcomer Freddie Muniz plays Malcolm, a gifted 9-year-old, and is "that rare thing, an uncloying child actor" (Caryn James, the New York Times ). Many critics compare the show to Fox's best-known half-hour comedy, The Simpsons , saying it shares the same sense of the absurd (mother shaves father's back at the breakfast table, etc.) with an "undercurrent of love and gentle support" (Ramin Zahed, Variety ). (Click here to find out more about the show at Fox's official site.)
Not only is it full of cursing, ethnic jokes, prostitution, and the like, but it dares to have no laugh track and a bastard as the protagonist: "the show is truly subversive and daring in its scabrous attitude" (Caryn James, the New York Times ). A few minor complaints: 1) The show is "a little in love with its own transgressiveness" (James Poniewozik, Time ). 2) The show relies on "humiliation humor" and Entertainment Weekly 's Ken Tucker predicts that the unlikability of star Jay Mohr will sink the show.
A minority praises Jeremy Irons' portrayal of Humbert Humbert--the middle-age professor obsessed with his adolescent stepdaughter--as sufficiently smarmy, and call the film "rich beyond what anyone could have expected" (Caryn James, the New York Times ). (Read Louis Menand's review in Slate .)
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