Huff - Season 1 Reviews

2004

Rated:
70
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Set in Portland, Oregon, Huff centers on the life of 40-something good-guy psychiatrist Dr. Craig "Huff" Huffstodt (Hank Azaria) suffering from a midlife crisis. Huff's world includes his lovely but complicated wife, Beth (Paget Brewster), a teenage son named Byrd (Anton Yelchin) who is mature beyond his years, and Huff's .. Read more

Starring	Hank Azaria, Paget Brewster, Anton Yelchin, Blythe Danner
Genres	Television

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Critics' reviews of Huff - Season 1
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First rate... a terrific show; funny, emotionally complex and surprising... The cast is wonderful
- Newsweek
- Posted 08 Oct 2007
Most helpful members' reviews (3) of Huff - Season 1
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9 out of 9 people found this review helpful

Excellent

This series is dark, disturbing and outstanding. Hank Azaria is wonderful as the lead role and his supporting cast, especially Oliver Platt make this enthralling viewing. The script is intelligent and I can't wait for the release of the second series.
- - A customer from Essex, England
  - Posted 15 Jul 2006 15:28
5 out of 5 people found this review helpful

Give it a go - you'll get hooked!

The pilot is a bit of a slow burner so do give this more than 20 minutes - it will be worth it, I promise! If you like Sopranos, Carnivale, Dead Like Me, Six Feet Under or other series of this ilk then this is definitely one that will suck you in.
- - A customer from leeds
  - Posted 28 Mar 2006 09:28
5 out of 5 people found this review helpful

fanatastic!!!

If you havnt seen this intelligent and enjoyable comedy drama, you have to see it now. Great performances mixed with pacey and witty scripts make this the must see of the year.
- - stephen simmons from Glasgow
  - Posted 04 Apr 2006 20:43
Most recent members' reviews (2) of Huff - Season 1
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1 out of 1 person found this review helpful

Addictive viewing

If you have watched the previous 3 discs of the series you will be totally sucked in to these characters and story. What a cliff hanger !! Can't wait for the next series.
- - A customer from Doncaster
  - Posted 19 Apr 2006 11:10
5 out of 5 people found this review helpful

fanatastic!!!

If you havnt seen this intelligent and enjoyable comedy drama, you have to see it now. Great performances mixed with pacey and witty scripts make this the must see of the year.
- - stephen simmons from Glasgow
  - Posted 04 Apr 2006 20:43

9 out of 9 people found this review helpful

Excellent

This series is dark, disturbing and outstanding. Hank Azaria is wonderful as the lead role and his supporting cast, especially Oliver Platt make this enthralling viewing. The script is intelligent and I can't wait for the release of the second series.
- - A customer from Essex, England
  - Posted 15 Jul 2006 15:28
5 out of 5 people found this review helpful

Give it a go - you'll get hooked!

The pilot is a bit of a slow burner so do give this more than 20 minutes - it will be worth it, I promise! If you like Sopranos, Carnivale, Dead Like Me, Six Feet Under or other series of this ilk then this is definitely one that will suck you in.
- - A customer from leeds
  - Posted 28 Mar 2006 09:28
5 out of 5 people found this review helpful

fanatastic!!!

If you havnt seen this intelligent and enjoyable comedy drama, you have to see it now. Great performances mixed with pacey and witty scripts make this the must see of the year.
- - stephen simmons from Glasgow
  - Posted 04 Apr 2006 20:43
3 out of 3 people found this review helpful

So much more than Moe

Hank Azaria, better known as Moe in The Simpsons, steps out of the world of animation and in to the starring role of this series which has yet to hit the screens here in the UK.

His character, Huff, is a self-obsessed psychiatrist with a problem family and an imaginary Polish hobo in tow. Home life is a tangle of rasping relationships between a demanding WASPish Mother, an increasingly career-minded wife and a scarily mature son. Oliver Platt is brilliant as the revolting, but charming, drug-taking, beer-swilling family lawyer-cum-best friend and Lara Flynn Boyle puts in a great cameo as a seriously disturbed beauty.

Masterful stuff - if only we were producing shows this great in the UK these days!
- - Emma from Heswall
  - Posted 01 Apr 2006 10:23
3 out of 3 people found this review helpful

Best American series for years

Lose Lost, ditch Desperate Housewives and sacrifice Smallville, Huff! is the best series to come out of America in a long time. You may have missed this as it was only aired on satelite but get that mouse over the ‘Rent Now’ button immediately!

Dr (Huff) Huffstodt (Hank Azaria) is a successful psychiatrist to the rich and screwed up until a young patient commits suicide in his office throwing his life into disarray. As well as coming to terms with his feelings of guilt he has to cope with a dysfunctional family and an out of control best friend throwing away his law career. Huffs brother is an institutionalized schizophrenic; his wife is bored catering cocktail parties for the rich LA crowd and his precocious son Byrd is experimenting with sex. If that isn’t enough to cope with his own sub conscious keeps haranguing him in the guise of an eastern European immigrant!

Huff! Is by turns witty, emotional, thought provoking and laugh out loud hysterical, the latter mainly due to the insanity of Huffs best friend, lawyer Russell Tupper (the brilliant Oliver Platt) the drunkest, most pill popping, whoremongering excuse for a best friend ever to grace the small screen.

All performances are fantastic, and with probably the best final episode ever (yes, I am counting series 1 of Desperate Housewives!) With the second (and final) series just drawing to a close on FX, now is the perfect time to rent this fantastic series.
- - DrAndyP from Canterbury
  - Posted 02 Oct 2006 22:28
3 out of 4 people found this review helpful

Can't see the point

Interesting concept but limited substance. I wouldn't recommend it.
- - A customer from London
  - Posted 29 Apr 2007 10:06
2 out of 2 people found this review helpful

Good, not great

Decent enough, well acted drama (although the son really bugs me to the point where I hope never to see him in anything again) sometimes it get a little too sentimental usually signaled by that horrible ‘emotional’ piano music you sometimes get on American television, you can tell it’s been influenced a lot by six feet under and the sopranos, it’s just not near as good as either of those.
- - A customer from one of the smaller moons of Jupiter
  - Posted 14 Aug 2006 16:31
1 out of 1 person found this review helpful

Enter Moe's Tavern

The voice behind Moe from the Simpsons is surprisingly adept at drama, playing the shrink who just can't let go. His mother's a nightmare, his brother's not well and he needs his own shrink. Top class support from Oliver Platt as the lawyer who knows no legal bounds.
- - A customer from Scotland
  - Posted 03 Apr 2006 09:53
1 out of 1 person found this review helpful

Addictive viewing

If you have watched the previous 3 discs of the series you will be totally sucked in to these characters and story. What a cliff hanger !! Can't wait for the next series.
- - A customer from Doncaster
  - Posted 19 Apr 2006 11:10
1 out of 1 person found this review helpful

Quirky and Dark

The characters are full of endearing and infuriating quirks. The humour is dark as pitch. The series is superlative. This is a must see for the discerning viewer.

If all you know of Hank Azaria is Moe, you are missing out a gem of an actor. If you've not yet discovered Oliver Platt, do so now.
- - A customer from Omagh, Northern Ireland
  - Posted 09 Jun 2006 09:57