Critic Reviews
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People Weekly Tom Gliatto
The show isn't all that different from Bravo's recent Real Housewives of Orange County, although the production values are much higher--everything has an expensive, carefully lit feminine gloss that perfectly matches the homemakers. [19 Jun 2006, p.37] |
| 60 |
San Jose Mercury News Charlie McCollum
Strangely engrossing. |
| 50 |
Chicago Sun-Times Doug Elfman
"Tuesday Night Book Club" has the effect of making viewers wish to live somewhere less petty and self-destructive than America, or at least the Scottsdale of this show. |
| 50 |
Detroit Free Press Mike Duffy
Some will find it appalling. Others just may find it appallingly addictive. |
| 40 |
Orlando Sentinel Hal Boedeker
This show isn't diverting enough to be a guilty pleasure, but it has a professional sheen that makes it more like a drama than a reality series. |
| 33 |
Entertainment Weekly Alynda Wheat
Book club? Please. These Scottsdale, Ariz., women don't read. They whine, they shop, and they obsess over the way they look. [16 Jun 2006, p.71] |
| 30 |
Hollywood Reporter Barry Garron
"Book Club" is one of those "wink, wink, nudge, nudge" series. You know, the kind that promote themselves as giving unvarnished looks into real-life issues facing women in a variety of situations but that mostly exist to exploit them. |
| 25 |
New York Daily News David Hinckley
Since these "Book Club" women do not seem inclined either to read or discuss their books, my advice is to follow their example - and neither watch nor discuss "Tuesday Night Book Club." |
| 25 |
New York Post Linda Stasi
A line-for-line ripoff of Bravo's not-terribly successful "The Real Housewives of Orange County." |
| 10 |
Chicago Tribune Allison Benedikt
Going above and beyond what is miserable about most reality television, "Tuesday Night Book Club" on CBS is a deeply depressing show. |
| 10 |
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Rob Owen
One of the more awful projects to hit CBS prime time in years. |
| 10 |
Variety Brian Lowry
This is strictly a cheap knockoff for those who can't survive a summer hiatus from housewives married to, and often equipped with, oversized boobs. |
| 0 |
Boston Globe Matthew Gilbert
Every moment of this repugnant product is absolutely precious, if you have a fetish for counterfeit emotions, Tupperware cheeks, ice-pick fingernails, and "real women" who can cry on cue -- without spoiling their makeup. |
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