APB

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Season 1
  • Network: FOX
  • Series Premiere Date: Feb 6, 2017
User Score
6.3

Generally favorable reviews- based on 55 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 32 out of 55
  2. Mixed: 8 out of 55
  3. Negative: 15 out of 55
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  1. Vl_cz
    Feb 8, 2017
    0
    Billionaire, using its money and innovations, creates a service that helps people and a superior government analogue. Do you think this summary of this series? Not only. Is Pure Genius series, which has exactly the same story, only instead of the police station - hospital.
    Stereotyped idea, implausible story, and disgusting acting (especially Caitlin Stasey plays annoyingly). APB is one    Billionaire, using its money and innovations, creates a service that helps people and a superior government analogue. Do you think this summary of this series? Not only. Is Pure Genius series, which has exactly the same story, only instead of the police station - hospital.
    Stereotyped idea, implausible story, and disgusting acting (especially Caitlin Stasey plays annoyingly). APB is one of the worst series this year.    … Expand
  2. chidime
    Feb 6, 2017
    0
    I had to stop watching after the scene where the billionaire guy basically bribed government officials to give him a police district to do as he pleases... in public....in broad day light. What absolute trash. We all know stuff like that don't happen. There's no way any government official will cave to that in PUBLIC. But this show believes we are 5 year old children. LOL. Sorry, thisI had to stop watching after the scene where the billionaire guy basically bribed government officials to give him a police district to do as he pleases... in public....in broad day light. What absolute trash. We all know stuff like that don't happen. There's no way any government official will cave to that in PUBLIC. But this show believes we are 5 year old children. LOL. Sorry, this deserves nothing more than a 0. Don't waste your time.… Expand
  3. olimpia
    Feb 10, 2017
    2
    If you start from a very poor idea ( a billionaire bribing a Mayor to take control of a police department) the development of this idea is not going to improve the final product. Bad and promising to get even worst.
  4. Ripandread
    Feb 13, 2017
    0
    The premise of this program is just plain ludicrous even for science fiction fans or people who love to buy expensive toys. APB would have made an excellent video game but just doesn't cut it as a TV show.
  5. Cassandra108
    Feb 28, 2017
    1
    Robocop without the Robocop

    A billionaire takes matters into his hand and does what the government cannot accomplish at all. Going full Elon. Yay. Alas the directing could be better. The acting could be better (but that would require more interesting things to say). And wow, the scripting is beyond redemption. The plot tends to defy logic, the science is not really sound and the    Robocop without the Robocop

    A billionaire takes matters into his hand and does what the government cannot accomplish at all. Going full Elon. Yay. Alas the directing could be better. The acting could be better (but that would require more interesting things to say). And wow, the scripting is beyond redemption.
    The plot tends to defy logic, the science is not really sound and the characters are pretty two dimensional. A show that is essentially targeting geeks should at least get its science right. Well, this one doesn't.
    There is a cop chase in the first episode, right after they got their fancy new stun guns. But why? The cops just run after the bad guy instead of shooting him with the nice nonlethal stun guns which everybody immediately hates because why excactly?
    And the statements could be a little less repetitive. Who points out all the time he is a billionaire? Or that the thingamajig costs 2 Million e.g. "this jacket is more expensive than the entire building" who writes these dialogues?
    After 3,5 shows I had to stop. Life is too short for this.
    Sorry for all the bashing.    … Expand

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#72 Most Discussed TV Season of 2017

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Metascore
45

Mixed or average reviews - based on 18 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 18
  2. Mixed: 13 out of 18
  3. Negative: 3 out of 18
  1. The Hollywood Reporter
    Reviewed by: Tim Goodman
    Feb 6, 2017
    20
    The only way it would be watchable is if it was some kind of Robocop deal--and that's a 20th century idea. No, this is just another in a very large pile of not-very-good ideas that got turned into a TV show. Go play with one of your apps instead.
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  2. St. Louis Post-Dispatch
    Reviewed by: Gail Pennington
    Feb 6, 2017
    37
    In the early going, APB is as generic as its title, failing to give us characters or stories that feel remotely realistic.
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  3. Boston Herald
    Reviewed by: Mark A. Perigard
    Feb 6, 2017
    50
    APB never settles its own version of its existential dilemma: man or machine? It argues for both. But as this uninspiring drama proves, sometimes when you split the difference, you end up with nothing.
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