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Cane
SERIES: CBS, Tuesday 10:00p (60 minutes)
Starring
Jimmy Smits,
Hector Elizondo,
Nestor Carbonell,
Rita Moreno,
Paola Turbay,
Eddie Matos,
Michael Trevino,
and
Lina Esco
Jimmy Smits lands in a sugar-cane dynasty. Will there be cat fights?
| GENRE(S): |
Drama,
Soap Opera
|
| CREATED BY: |
Cynthia Cidre
|
| FIRST AIR DATE: |
September 25, 2007 |
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
88
New York Post Linda Stasi
A terrifically cast, intriguing series.
80
Variety Brian Lowry
Well cast, with a sturdy central presence in Jimmy Smits as the adopted son handed the keys to the kingdom.
80
Philadelphia Inquirer Jonathan Storm
Cane, at 10 p.m., stars ever-hunky Jimmy Smits and a huge cast that ranges from a 12-year-old to Hector Elizondo and Rita Moreno, in a tale of--what else?--lust, money, romance and family intrigue. We've seen it all before, but never this appealingly.
80
Miami Herald Glenn Garvin
The show's intricate plotting and finely rendered characters will engage your brain, but there's plenty of below-the-shoulders action, too.
75
Detroit Free Press Mike Duffy
Bitter family power struggles, corporate rivalries and a touch of murder highlight a promising, if overly tangled and busy series premiere.
75
San Francisco Chronicle Tim Goodman
It's a big soapy epic that allows you to turn off your brain late at night, but it ultimately carries no gravitas, minority hiring or not. As long as we're clear on that, there's nothing wrong for applauding what the series gets right, given the constraints of the genre.
70
PopMatters Cynthia Fuchs
The soap operatic set-up is both efficient and florid, laying out both familial continuity and class distinctions.
70
Philadelphia Daily News Ellen Gray
But Cane--and, yes, I'd say you're also supposed to think of it as "Cain"--has a darker purpose, and one that might not fit as easily on crime-and punishment-oriented CBS, whose viewers may not all be ready to see Smits as a guy with more than a touch of Tony Soprano. I want to believe, but I'm not there yet.
70
Hollywood Reporter Ray Richmond
A slick and earnest soap about rival families in South Florida.
67
Entertainment Weekly Josh Wolk
The drama all feels a bit familiar, as if someone used the find/replace function to trade "oil" with "sugarcane" on an old "Dallas" script. [28 Sep 2007, p.100]
63
Slant Magazine Ed Gonzalez
The all-star cast, which includes Hector Elizondo as the patriarch of the Duque family and Jimmy Smits as the adopted son who inherits principal control of the old man's sugar cane business in a contentious handover, bring authenticity to what is otherwise a hysterical, Dynasty-style vision of Cuban-American experience set in and around kitschy Miami.
60
Los Angeles Times Robert Lloyd
Notwithstanding the novelty of the setting, the nice Latin music and good individual work by the cast--Walker is especially notable in a role made to notice--Smits is the engine that drives the ship; he gives Cane at least an illusion of speed and substance and soul.
60
Newsday Verne Gay
Cane" is not a bad show, and it's sporadically a good one. Merely, great expectations have not been met.
60
Boston Globe Matthew Gilbert
It's a plot-driven, multi-generational melodrama, which feels particularly shallow at a time when shows such as "Friday Night Lights," "Mad Men," "Dexter," and "Nip/Tuck" are pushing their narrative reach.
50
New York Daily News David Bianculli
It presents a mouthwatering cast and a tasty premise, then fails to generate a succulent premiere.
50
USA Today Robert Bianco
As much as CBS may yearn for the days of J.R. and Bobby Ewing, those days have passed, and you certainly can't bring then back with a show that feels more dated than "Dallas."
40
Chicago Tribune Maureen Ryan
Despite being set in lively, colorful Miami, this saga is as sluggish as can be.
40
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Rob Owen
Cane is probably the most traditional of these soaps. Unfortunately, it's also hampered by a muddled pilot episode with ham-fisted character introductions and an ending that's likely to put off some viewers.
40
The New York Times Alessandra Stanley
Manichaean characters work on soap operas as long as they come with plenty of machinations. Unfortunately, there are no J. R.’s in sight on Cane, and the one Samuels with Alexis Carrington potential, Ellis, is played by a surprisingly subdued Polly Walker.
40
Newark Star-Ledger Alan Sepinwall
It's a watered-down, TV version of the familiar tale, as bland and inoffensive as possible.
40
San Jose Mercury News Charlie McCollum
All Cane has going for it now is the cast. In tonight's opening episode, the tone is all over the place
38
Chicago Sun-Times Doug Elfman
It's sleek and mildly epic-looking. But qualitywise, I'm wondering where the storyline is going other than just the soapy family fights.
30
Kansas City Star Aaron Barnhart
The first hour’s writing, pacing and storylines were too pedestrian for me to recommend Cane.
30
Seattle Post-Intelligencer Melanie McFarland
You'd expect Cane to follow in the tradition of "Dallas" by giving viewers a potboiler to look forward to each week, but there are too many subplots knotted together in the opening episode, and none of them is particularly interesting.
20
Washington Post Tom Shales
One of those slack, campy throwbacks that really ought to be thrown out, Cane, premiering on CBS tonight at 10, tries to bring grand-opera soap opera back to prime time and ignominiously fails.
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