Alex Rider

Name: Alex Rider
Genre: Drama, Action & Adventure, Suspense
Released: November 13, 2020
Rating: 67

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Amazon FreeVee | Release Date: November 13, 2020

Summary: After the death of his uncle, the teenage Alex Rider (Otto Farrant) is recruited by MI6's Department of Special Operations to infiltrate a school in this adaptation of the novels by Anthony Horowitz.

[Premiered originally in the UK on Prime Video on 4 Jun 2020]

Genre(s): Drama, Action & Adventure, Suspense

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Joel Keller

Nov 13, 2020

Season 1 Review: Alex Rider is definitely an above average entry in TV’s spy genre; it takes its main character seriously and develops him enough that we can actually believe he’ll do a good job as an agent. That’s saying a lot. Read full review

The Telegraph Anita Singh

Oct 1, 2020

Season 1 Review: A pacey romp, far superior to the 2006 film. It’s slick and stylish, bringing the stories up-to-date with smartphones and cybertechnology while sticking to the spirit of Boy’s Own adventures. Read full review

Alexis Gunderson

Nov 13, 2020

Season 1 Review: The show takes him seriously, which means their fictional version of the SAS takes him seriously, which means the deeply realistic bad guys out to literally kill him also take him seriously. And while that much seriousness has the tendency to drag lesser adult action series to an absolute standstill, the hyper-realistic teen antics Alex and his tiny circle of friends get up to, even in the midst of life-or-death situations, serve as useful tonal ballast that lends the series just enough warmth and humor to bolster the rest of the story’s inherent tension. Read full review

Rob Owen

Nov 12, 2020

Season 1 Review: The first two episodes deliver a lot of setup as Alex’s world is ripped apart before he’s set on his path to becoming a spy. The plot mechanics are fairly predictable and it takes the show too long to get where it’s clearly going. Read full review

The Independent Ed Cumming

Oct 1, 2020

Season 1 Review: The new Alex Rider is pacy, polished and safe. It’s hard to imagine anyone hating it, but there is something slightly clinical about the exercise, too. Read full review

The Guardian Lucy Mangan

Oct 1, 2020

Season 1 Review: The series will probably benefit from the fact that adults don’t have the bandwidth at the moment to cope with much more than it offers. With any luck, it will buy Alex Rider time to find its feet, decide on its audience and fully realise the vision that floats just underneath the spectacle. Read full review

Daniel Fienberg

Nov 12, 2020

Season 1 Review: It's fine! The decision was made to double down on exposition for this reintroduction to Alex Rider and his undercover world, which leads to long stretches of narrative clunkiness. But it feels like a reasonable eight-episode set-up for a fun series. Read full review

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Achtlos

Jan 8, 2022

Got a Teen or Tween that's not ready for James Bond, but gets tired of Marvel? This is excellent spy-teens.
Paced well, fantastic actors.
Excited for season 3.

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reallyadriel

Dec 9, 2021

Alex Rider is a lackluster show with horrible writing. It's a disappointment and I wish I never watched it.

They make him show his skill in the first episode and after that, he's a pointless character. By the last 2 episodes he acts like he has 0 fighting skills. His aunt and friend do aAlex Rider is a lackluster show with horrible writing. It's a disappointment and I wish I never watched it.

They make him show his skill in the first episode and after that, he's a pointless character. By the last 2 episodes he acts like he has 0 fighting skills.

His aunt and friend do a terrible job at acting. If this was funded by Amazon it would be on-par with Jack Ryan, but it's not. It's by IMDB which they don't know how to separate looks and politics with good acting.

The show had such great potential to be like a modern Agent Cody Banks, but they ruined it.… Expand

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  Air Date: April 5, 2024
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  Air Date: December 3, 2021
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  Air Date: November 13, 2020