11.22.63

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Season 1
  • Network: HULU
  • Series Premiere Date: Feb 15, 2016
User Score
7.8

Generally favorable reviews- based on 225 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 184 out of 225
  2. Mixed: 23 out of 225
  3. Negative: 18 out of 225
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  1. ducini
    Feb 29, 2016
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. What a hugely disappointing show, as one had such high hopes given the cast, and executive team behind it. But the show shot itself in the foot within the first half an hour, with such a glaring plot inconsistency that I switched it off in a rage.

    Basic premise of the show is that a diner owner, Chris Cooper, has a portal in his cupboard that takes you back in time to a date in the 60s. You can go back and spend as much time there as you like in the past and only 2 minutes will pass in the present. Every time you go back however the past resets itself so you always return to the same date and time and any changes you might have made from a previous visit that affect the future are reset.

    Enter James "wooden actor" Franco, who is tasked by Cooper with saving JFK and making the future a better place to live. We forward to a scene were both characters are in Coopers room looking over his typical evidence wall, and of course the discussion moves to whether Lee Harvey Oswald killed JFK. Cooper's character says he saw Oswald and looked him in the eyes and thought he did not do it, but maybe he did, or didn't --- ohhhh the suspense it needs 5 seasons worth of watching Franco act like a fence post to investigate it.

    Hence we get to the biggest plot guff which makes the show unwatchable. If every time you go through the cupboard it resets the changes you made in the future from the last time you were there, then why did Cooper's character not kill Oswald, pop back to the future, see if JFK was alive. If he was task succeeded and if not then pop back through the cupboard and start again with the other suspects.

    Such nonsense.    … Expand
  2. Broyax
    Nov 19, 2018
    3
    Une série très intéressante pendant les 3 premiers épisodes ou plutôt pendant les 2 premiers, puis un 3ème qui commence à tituber dangereusement... et après, bah après, c'est la dégringolade...

    Pourtant, voyage dans le temps + Kennedy, ça laissait augurer quelques belles heures de complot sur l'une des plus grandes énigmes du 20ème siècle. Avec un brin de fantastique en prime puisque    Une série très intéressante pendant les 3 premiers épisodes ou plutôt pendant les 2 premiers, puis un 3ème qui commence à tituber dangereusement... et après, bah après, c'est la dégringolade...

    Pourtant, voyage dans le temps + Kennedy, ça laissait augurer quelques belles heures de complot sur l'une des plus grandes énigmes du 20ème siècle. Avec un brin de fantastique en prime puisque c'est tiré d'un bouquin de Stephen King... J'ignore totalement si le livre en question est aussi daubé mais peu importe...

    Ce qui importe, c'est la série qui ne suit que de très loin le complot et se perd au fil des épisodes dans la niaiserie et le violon de bas étage. Monsieur le voyageur temporel se fait en effet le défenseur de la veuve et de l'orphelin et perd son temps dans une guimauve pathétique... et pourtant on a ici que 9 épisodes dont 6 qui se traînent lamentablement jusqu'à la fin téléphonée.

    James Franco demeure un brave gars qui fait ce qu'il peut et la jolie blonde platine au sourire Colgate est très... jolie (je la recommanderai pour la prochaine pub Garnier ou L'Oréal d'ailleurs) mais si on veut du bon voyage à rebours, on se tournera vers le film L'Effet Papillon et si on veut du complot, vers l'excellent film-fleuve d'Oliver Stone... JFK.    … Expand
  3. Prosmooth
    Feb 15, 2016
    2
    Very disappointing like most of King's adaptations. James Franco is miscast as Jake, the story feels extremely rushed, and it deviates from King's novel so much that it turns a somber meditation on the ills of America over the last 50 years to a Back to the Future remake. If you're going to change a novel (like Kubrick did with the Shining) --by all means create your own art--but don'tVery disappointing like most of King's adaptations. James Franco is miscast as Jake, the story feels extremely rushed, and it deviates from King's novel so much that it turns a somber meditation on the ills of America over the last 50 years to a Back to the Future remake. If you're going to change a novel (like Kubrick did with the Shining) --by all means create your own art--but don't minimize it by making a joke out of it. Awful.… Expand

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Metascore
69

Generally favorable reviews - based on 35 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 23 out of 35
  2. Mixed: 12 out of 35
  3. Negative: 0 out of 35
  1. TVLine
    Reviewed by: Michael Slezak
    Apr 6, 2016
    91
    [A] little bit of bloat hardly slows down a slick production that, while transporting us back in time, stakes Hulu’s claim as a serious streaming player of the future.
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  2. Colorado Springs Gazette
    Reviewed by: Terry Terrones
    Apr 6, 2016
    100
    A brilliant premise, an excellent cast and first-rate production values will make viewers truly feel like they're going on an incredibly journey in 1960.
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  3. Uncle Barky
    Reviewed by: Ed Bark
    Feb 19, 2016
    67
    Despite its flaws, 11.22.63 ends up closing the deal in a way that for the most part makes it a long, strange time travel worth taking.
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