SummaryMatt Flannery and Emily Lehman are top-ranked crisis negotiators in the FBI's Crisis Negotiation Unit who are trained to talk their way through volatile situations. They make an outstanding team professionally, but their relationship is a bit more precarious off the job. The series advances the fundamental idea that in life and in love "Everythin... Read More
Created By:Craig Silverstein
Standoff
Season 1 Premiere:
2006
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Standoff doesn't recreate the genre, but it certainly refreshes it. [15 Sep 2006, p.64]
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From start to finish, "Standoff" is slickly contrived, formulaic crime drama nonsense.
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"Standoff" does seem to emerge miraculously out of the fumes of '70s TV - a near-perfect reformulation of every bone-weary cliche, every hackneyed piece of cop chatter (Dan Tanna lives!) that last-century TV glorified in.
38
If Matt and Emily blow up, the show doesn't get a second episode. Because they'll be dead. Keep your fingers crossed.
30
The tonal dissonance in "Standoff" is deafening, like pairing up, say, Jewel and Meat Loaf for a duet.
20
The series premiere suffers from a catalog of problems longer than most demand lists.
10
An awkward pairing of adult relationship drama and procedural cop show, "Standoff" bombs on both counts.
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