"...one of the quirkiest, most inventive television series you're likely to run across....an appealing alternative to the high-volume, laugh track world of network television." - New York Times
	"...Lurie has stumbled onto a great format for a talk show...comic and refreshing." - Los Angeles Times
"...Lurie elevates this venerable institution to a whole new level, doing for the American fishing format what Cezanne did for the still life, what Godard did for the cinema, what Jerry Tarkanian did for college basketball." - Artforum
	"...anyone who sees the fishing shows...will be delighted." - Paper magazine
"...taking blank parody to new extremes...this is not your father's fishing show" - Pulse Magazine
	"...explores the belly of the beast with the dark obsession of Captain Ahab and the unflagging valiance of Papa Hemmingway." - New Times LA
"...Amazing" - Option Magazine
	"...brilliantly absurd" - SF Weekly
"Not since 'Twin Peaks' has a piece of TV been as inscrutably, inexplicably entertaining as 'Fishing With John'....gives a ping! of reality that Jerry Seinfeld would envy." - New York Post
	"one of the most talented and versatile men on earth or wherever men are found." - Bomb magazine
"...hilarious outdoorsy send-up....the kind of self-deprecation only a real cool guy could get away with." - Esquire
	"transforms the tedium of fishing with a friend into an event of mythical proportions" - New York Press
"...marries the celebrity talk-show craze with PBS-style expeditions" - Egg Magazine
	"...downright hilarious" - Aquarian
"...hangs somewhere between the universes of Jarmusch and David Lynch" - The Guardian
	"...fills the post-Seinfeld void...hilarious, it's a completely unique television-viewing experience." - Spin Magazine
"Fishing with cool people in exotic locales all over the world has to make for a good time.." - Rolling Stone Magazine