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Critic Reviews
Apr 2, 2015
Season 1 Review:
American Odyssey is rooted in current events, which provides immediate credibility to the series. But like “Homeland,” “Person of Interest” and other shows, it also makes effective use of the post-9/11 air of wariness that wafts through American society. Conspiracy buffs will be in heaven watching American Odyssey, but the rest of us will just be completely hooked.
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Jan 13, 2015
Mar 31, 2015
Season 1 Review:
It’s an exhilarating thriller that pits a disparate group of people against an insidious military-industrial conspiracy. But it’s the unlikely affinity between a stern, pious Muslim teenager and the captive female American soldier he is instructed to guard that gives this high-octane action-adventure drama a special charm.
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Apr 3, 2015
Season 1 Review:
Peter Facinelli (plays a former U.S. attorney and Jake Robinson an activist who are also getting dangerously close to the secret that threatens Sgt. Ballard, though it's Friel and Omar Ghazaoui, the young Moroccan playing her traveling companion, who are most responsible for making American Odyssey stand out from the conspiracy crowd.
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Apr 2, 2015
Season 1 Review:
Though it makes several seriously absurd leaps of logic, American Odyssey will be a must-see for conspiracy lovers. The show's only real downside is that its utterly hyperbolic and sensationalistic tone overshadows and obscures some of the real political issues it touches upon.
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Mar 30, 2015
Season 1 Review:
Odyssey is bland and soulless, with too many threads offering too little wallop. [3 Apr 2015, p.59]
Apr 2, 2015
Apr 2, 2015
Season 1 Review:
Unfortunately, the sheer number of coincidences derails the show’s attempts to seem real and relevant. Sometimes the camera pans from, say, Decker the lawyer to Walters the protester (who’s too naive to be trusted by so many hard-cases), and you’re probably supposed to think “small world,” or “everyone is connected,” but it’s all just way too forced.
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Apr 2, 2015
Season 1 Review:
American Odyssey wants to offer a critique of the power wielded by institutions, but unlike the best dramas whose structure it apes, the show's storylines aren't strands in an intricate mosaic; they're loose threads dangling from a droopy sweater--unnecessary, cumbersome, and just waiting to be snipped.
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Apr 3, 2015
Season 1 Review:
There's perhaps an outside chance that NBC's American Odyssey might not seem quite as impenetrably dull had we not already seen--or ignored--a hundred similar tales of terrorist conspiracies and government coverups. But we have and it does, and there's really no coming back from that.
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