- Network: NBC
- Series Premiere Date: Sep 26, 2007
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Under Michael Dinner's steady directorial hand, it's dark, tense and conspiratorial, a far cry from the camp sci-fi tricks of its predecessor.
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It's not your mother's Bionic Woman. It's much, much better.
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NBC's lavish and splashy new version of Bionic Woman, is not, as one might fear, a BW stripped of everything that fans loved about the '70s original.
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Sarah Corvus has arrived to haunt and to taunt, to give our plucky heroine a sinister contrast that the show can't do without.
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Just the right mix of camp, witchiness, special-effects and hand-to-hand combat.
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Intelligent and entertaining reimaginations of stupefyingly bad pieces of 1970s sci-fi hackwork.
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The girls, though, look promising. Granted, the initial Sarah-Jamie fight scene occasions the series’ first spectacular special-effectsy scene.
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Too much? Yes, too much! And yet, it's one of those moments you just have to shrug at and enjoy.
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A little messy in its conception, the series still exhibits considerable potential--the kind that inspires checking out a second episode.
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I also really enjoyed NBC's Bionic Woman. There's lots of super-powered action, I like regular-girl Michelle Ryan as Jaime Sommers, and best of all, Katee Sackhoff (Starbuck from "Battlestar Galactica") plays the eeeeevil former bionic woman, Sarah Corvus.
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This Bionic Woman pilot is a downbeat drag, but buried somewhere beneath all the moping is an intriguing show that might yet emerge.
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A sleekly engaging pilot that, with the right character development, could turn into a sleekly engaging series.
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Like young Jaime, it's going to take awhile for this show to find its artificial legs.
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NBC’s show, which is more about fembot martial arts and slick “Matrix”-ish special effects than about character development, is oriented toward young male viewers.
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The unnecessary reimagining from executive producer David Eick, is a lot darker than the 1976 original
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There's a distinct "Alias" overtone to her initiation into the dark side of the force. If I'd liked "Alias," this might have me all excited. But I didn't, so I'm not.
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Ryan seems too inert, not nearly aggressive enough for the role.
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Bionic Woman, the disappointingly average remake of the Lindsay Wagner vehicle from the ’70s, comes to life.
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Now we're back to Bionic Woman and Jaime Sommers--only under the surgical knife of executive producer David Eick, who had a hand in reshaping "Battlestar Galactica" to suit modern sensibilities, the rebuilt is wussier and darker than Wagner ever was.
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Despite her extreme makeover, this new Bionic Woman is mostly slick, dull and portentously sullen.
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It doesn't bode well for this series, however, that tonight's premiere features a magnetic, dynamic, no-nonsense female cyborg who steals every scene she's in--and it isn't Ryan as Jaime Sommers.
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This show is so cliched that it actually contains one of those scenes in which a camera makes a slow, 360-degree circle around Jaime as she gazes skyward.
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Alas, while it's fine to have a villain who is more colorful than your hero, it's not so fine to have a supporting actor who makes your star vanish whenever they're on screen together. It makes you think that what this remake of a spinoff really needs is a spinoff of its own.
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Jamie is our heroine, the one we're supposed to like and care about, but as played by British actress Ryan ("EastEnders," "Jekyll"), she's a mopey blank, badly upstaged every time Sackhoff makes one of her all-too-brief appearances as Corvus.
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The whole place could use more lights so you could see what was going on.
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This Bionic Woman does not fail to live up to the original, it fails to live up to all of the other programs it wants to emulate instead.
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Dim. Ryan is not to blame. Jaime, rebuilt after a horrific car accident, must live in a grim, punishing world and associate with joyless characters. Speedy Jaime can't outrun this train wreck.
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NBC's new Bionic Woman remake is a desolate slab of ice where any resemblance to human beings - alive, dead or cyborgian--is purely coincidental. It's hard to imagine a bigger modernized mess being made
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 42 out of 94
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Mixed: 16 out of 94
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Negative: 36 out of 94
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Oct 13, 2010
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CazGMar 18, 2008
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JasonD.Mar 8, 2008