American Rust

Name: American Rust
Genre: Drama, Business
Released: September 12, 2021
Rating: 48

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Prime Video | Release Date: September 12, 2021

Summary: Del Harris (Jeff Daniels), the chief of police in a small Pennsylvania Rust Belt town is tested on how far would he go to protect the son (Alex Neustaedter) of a woman (Maura Tierney) he loves from murder charges in this drama series based on Philipp Meyer's novel of the same name.

Genre(s): Drama, Business

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Rob Owen

Mar 28, 2024

Season 2 Review: If there’s any downside to this new season it’s that the first half feels stronger than the second half. Returning characters’ personality changes in the first half of the new season are necessary tweaks that help lift the show’s overall mood, which makes “American Rust” more entertaining and less depressing. Read full review

Richard Roeper

Sep 10, 2021

Season 1 Review: There are times when “American Rust” gets things just right. ... Too often, though, we’re mired in wheel-spinning storylines. The great Canadian poet Neil Young once told us rust never sleeps, but “American Rust” takes too many naps. Read full review

The Times Carol Midgley

Nov 29, 2021

Season 1 Review: At times it definitely was [good], especially the performance from Jeff Daniels as grizzled police chief Del Harris, who suffered PTSD after serving in Iraq, and an even better one from Maura Tierney as Grace, an impoverished, attractive seamstress at risk of losing her trailer home and enjoying said police chief occasionally taking down her particulars. Read full review

Zack Handlen

Sep 3, 2021

Season 1 Review: Everything in this is predictable, up to and including the inciting incident. ... American Rust likely has a story worth telling, and a setting worth exploring, but this version fails to make much of a case for either. Read full review

The Telegraph Anita Singh

Nov 29, 2021

Season 1 Review: Mare of Easttown got there first, and did it way better. Read full review

Matthew Gilbert

Sep 10, 2021

Season 1 Review: The first three episodes of the miniseries that were sent for review are so relentlessly downbeat, so lacking in urgency, so drained of possibility, it’s hard to care about anything or anyone in them. Read full review

Peter Travers

Sep 10, 2021

Season 1 Review: This gender-flipped Mare of Easttown benefits from a solid Jeff Daniels as a police chief stalking a killer in a dying, Pennsylvania steel town, but even this terrific actor is not enough to save a dry, dreary, humorless series that stalls when it most needs to accelerate. Read full review

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radioactiveblue

Sep 19, 2021

The first two episodes of American Rust are excellent and it's shot beautifully. The first episode introduces several characters, each seems interesting in his or her own right, and I'm excited to see how the rest of the season unfolds. This is one of the best new shows I've watched in a while!

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UncleWillard

Jan 27, 2022

Another "I wanted to like this" show. I stuck with it through the entire season, and as critics have pointed out, it is buoyed only by a good (not great) performance by Jeff Daniels. It's all over the place. It wants to be about the decline of small town America, a commentary on LGBTQAnother "I wanted to like this" show. I stuck with it through the entire season, and as critics have pointed out, it is buoyed only by a good (not great) performance by Jeff Daniels. It's all over the place. It wants to be about the decline of small town America, a commentary on LGBTQ violence/acceptence, crime drama, legal drama, Norma Rae...just too much stuff in it. This could have been a decent 90 minute movie, but dragging it out to 9 episodes (seriously 9? not 8? not 10? pick a **** standard please. A solid 10 should be the standard now). Not frustrations:

1 - Lee is a totally useless character and really **** over her husband for almost no reason. Useless melodrama.

2 - Grace is also all over the place, but mostly a **** rip-off of the aforementioned Norma Rae.

3 - Billy won't even defend himself. What a useless martyr.

4 - Isaac is gutless and makes gay people look bad.

There are more, but in general the whole show is a hodgepodge of other shows and movies and the mystery is boring af.… Expand

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Seasons & Episodes

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Series Overview
Season 2

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  Air Date: March 28, 2024
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Season 1

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  Air Date: September 12, 2021