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Movie Review for TV Set, The
Movie Review for
TV Set, The
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TV Set, The | | |
| Also known as: | The Television Set |
57 Reviews total.
Release date: 4/6/2007
Run length: 87 mins.
Categories:
Comedy
Summary:
Mike Klein is an idealistic writer who tries to navigate his TV pilot down the mine-laden path from script through production to the madness of prime-time scheduling - all while trying to stay true to his vision. Along the way he has to juggle the agendas of a headstrong network president, volatile young stars, a pregnant wife and an ever-optimistic personal manager.
Reviews of TV Set, The
By
Eleanor Ringel Gillespie
of Atlanta Journal-Constitution (8/0)
...facile but likable...
By
Eleanor Ringel Gillespie
of Atlanta Journal-Constitution (8/0)
A facile but likable send-up of how things (don't) work in Hollywood.
By
Toddy Burton
of Austin Chronicle (8/0)
Yes, it’s funny because it’s true. But it’s also sad for just the same reason.
By
Ty Burr
of Boston Globe (8/0)
...a terrific little film.
By
Fred Topel
of Can Magazine (8/0)
An inside Hollywood comedy for people over whose head 30 Rock goes. Those people won't even under...
By
Rob Thomas
of Capital Times (Madison, WI) (8/0)
"The TV Set" feels a little underdone and half-realized, as if it were the pilot episode for a sh...
Reviews of TV Set, The
By
Sid Smith
of Chicago Tribune (8/0)
For all its bright writing, TV Set is contrived and predictable...
By
Cole Smithey
of ColeSmithey.com (8/0)
Director Jake Kasdan's not-so-scathing satire of the slimy underbelly of television program devel...
By
Emanuel Levy
of EmanuelLevy.Com (8/0)
A familiar satire of the entertainment industry, the film is enlivened by some sharp observations...
By
Lisa Schwarzbaum
of Entertainment Weekly (8/0)
...very smart, very funny...
By
Eric D. Snider
of EricDSnider.com (8/0)
The TV Set is therapy for actors and writers, and other people's therapy is almost always fun to ...
By
Kam Williams
of EURWeb (8/0)
An eye-opening satire which makes a powerful statement about television's tendency towards very c...
Reviews of TV Set, The
By
Erica Abeel
of Film Journal International (8/0)
David Duchovny as the writer delivers a turn so listless and bland, you want to goose him with a ...
By
Chris Cabin
of filmcritic.com (8/0)
Whatever it is, the film is at the very least interesting.
By
Chris Cabin
of filmcritic.com (8/0)
if Kasdan's point was to use the film as metaphor, its attitude towards the audience is spiteful ...
By
Telly Davidson
of FilmStew.com (8/0)
Kasdan has the narrative vision (and the b*lls) to let most of the fun derive from what isn’t the...
By
Scott Foundas
of L.A. Weekly (8/0)
At its best, The TV Set is wry and even laugh-out-loud funny about the messy tangle of art, comme...
By
Evan Henerson
of Los Angeles Daily News (8/0)
The TV Set, written and directed by longtime tube toiler Jake Kasdan, gets it both right and funn...
Reviews of TV Set, The
By
Kevin Crust
of Los Angeles Times (8/0)
... wickedly funny ...
By
Ron Wilkinson
of Monsters and Critics (7/1)
Wavering between dark humor and the anguish of the creative soul, this look at the self-destructi...
By
Jack Mathews
of New York Daily News (8/0)
Writer-director Jake Kasdan has been through his share of meetings with production executives eag...
By
David Edelstein
of New York Magazine (8/0)
It’s deftly calibrated and acted with relish: [writer-director] Kasdan is really good!
By
A. O. Scott
of New York Times (8/0)
When telling behind-the-scenes tales about network television, there¿s not much exaggeration nee...
By
David Denby
of New Yorker (8/0)
The satire is unrelenting but not too broad; it stays close to common observation.
Reviews of TV Set, The
By
Frank Swietek
of One Guy's Opinion (8/0)
A weak satire of network television programming, telling you nothing you don't already know and d...
By
Tasha Robinson
of Onion AV Club (8/0)
... a well-acted and generally funny comedy that doesn't bog down in emotion even when it bogs do...
By
Jason Ferguson
of Orlando Weekly (8/0)
David Duchovny, Justine Bateman, Ioan Gruffudd and Sigourney Weaver star in this biting look at t...
By
Aaron Hillis
of Premiere Magazine (8/0)
[Kasdan's] execution can sometimes be laugh-out-loud clever... It isn't broad enough to expose wh...
By
Gary Goldstein
of Reel.com (8/0)
Much like the television pilot it revolves around, the pale satire The TV Set doesn't quite know ...
By
Andrew O'Hehir
of Salon.com (8/0)
Kasdan should have the expertise to write a backstage exposé of the TV industry. This one simply ...
Reviews of TV Set, The
By
Ruthe Stein
of San Francisco Chronicle (8/0)
...a wickedly funny satire...
By
Sean Axmaker
of Seattle Post-Intelligencer (8/0)
The moral is simple: television is no place for a creative artist.
By
Jeff Shannon
of Seattle Times (8/0)
What's missing here is the sense that anything truly vital is at stake -- like, say, our cultural...
By
Ed Gonzalez
of Slant Magazine (8/0)
What with its utter lack of passion, it's difficult to say if the film wants to be taken as satir...
By
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
of Spirituality and Practice (8/0)
A clever satire on the dynamics of prime-time television in America with its sleazy programs and ...
By
Andrew Wright
of The Stranger (Seattle, WA) (8/0)
Doesn't win any points in the originality department (television executives suck, apparently), bu...
Reviews of TV Set, The
By
Mark Holcomb
of Time Out New York (4/4)
Airlessly insidery and only sporadically funny ...
By
Tony Medley
of tonymedley.com (8/0)
This doesn't rise to the level of awful. Like priests condemned to Dante's Inferno, there is a lo...
By
Claudia Puig
of USA Today (8/0)
...sometimes the satire is just too inside to resonate with mass audiences.
By
Joe Morgenstern
of Wall Street Journal (8/0)
The TV Set isn't in the same league with Network or The Player, but it's very good, and its cast ...
By
Ann Hornaday
of Washington Post (8/0)
The TV Set, written and directed by Jake Kasdan, often possesses the gimlet-eyed wit of The Playe...
By
Steven Snyder
of Zertinet Movies (7/0)
Is it a travesty? A farce? Utterly preposterous? Exactly.
Reviews of TV Set, The
By
Chuck Barney
of Contra Costa Times (4/5) Login Required (Login Required)
A mostly lightweight endeavor that never builds any genuine emotional traction. And you have to w...
By
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul)
of St. Paul Pioneer Press (4/5) Login Required (Login Required)
There's a smugness to TV Set that undercuts the humor. The movie is so confident of its artistic ...
By
John P. McCarthy
of Boxoffice Magazine (3/5) No reference
The conclusion of Kasdan's snarky, low-budget glimpse behind the small screen is appropriately cy...
By
John P. McCarthy
of Boxoffice Magazine (3/5) No reference
The conclusion of Kasdan's snarky, low-budget glimpse behind the small screen is appropriately cy...
By
J. R. Jones
of Chicago Reader (4/4) No reference
Various news stories have noted the movie's accuracy, which I don't doubt, but the blanket antipa...
By
Teresa Budasi
of Chicago Sun-Times (7/1) No reference
Kasdan wisely doesn't make this about the big, bad bosses vs. the creative geniuses who won't com...
Reviews of TV Set, The
By
Jeff Vice
of Deseret News, Salt Lake City (7/1) No reference
This very inside but modestly amusing show-business satire doesn't seem too far-fetched or exagge...
By
Terry Lawson
of Detroit Free Press (5/3) No reference
While some of the gags may be a little too inside baseball, anyone who has seen Broadcast News or...
By
Tom Long
of Detroit News (5/3) No reference
A somewhat cold and calculated film that apparently unconsciously exemplifies that which it inten...
By
Edward Havens
of FilmJerk.com (4/4) No reference
[Except for Sigourney Weaver] everyone else looks so damn solemn, it's as if neither they nor the...
By
Pete Hammond
of Maxim (3/5) No reference
It gets high ratings for razor sharp writing and direction as well as a wonderful ensemble cast d...
By
Mike Russell
of Oregonian (7/1) No reference
Savage little morality tale.
Reviews of TV Set, The
By
Carla Meyer
of Sacramento Bee (7/1) No reference
Kasdan goes too far over the top on occasion. But he mostly straddles the line between reality an...
By
Harvey S. Karten
of Compuserve (7/1) Not Reachable
While it's no 'Network,' this pic is frequently quite funny as a character study of people who de...
By
Connie Ogle
of Miami Herald (6/1) Not Reachable
Honestly, isn't it a little late to be bemoaning sleazy reality TV?
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