Channel Zero

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Season 1
  • Network: SyFy
  • Series Premiere Date: Oct 11, 2016
Season #: 4, 3, 2, 1
Metascore
75

Generally favorable reviews - based on 5 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 5
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 5
  3. Negative: 0 out of 5
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Critic Reviews

  1. Collider
    Reviewed by: Evan Valentine
    Oct 11, 2016
    100
    The series runs like clockwork in that nearly every five minutes, in the episodes we were presented, there is a legitimate unsettling scary moment to whet your whistle for terror. The series is sure to go down as a horror classic, so prepare yourself and enter Candle Cove. You won’t regret it.
  2. The Atlantic
    Reviewed by: Lenika Cruz
    Oct 26, 2016
    80
    Channel Zero’s more mundane approach to horror might keep it on the outskirts of popular attention, but the show is all the more compelling for its restraint.
  3. New York Magazine (Vulture)
    Reviewed by: Jen Chaney
    Oct 11, 2016
    70
    Once it gets going, Channel Zero: Candle Cove smartly peels back additional layers of its central mystery so that the audience won’t be satisfied until they finally get to the core of what really happened in Iron Hill all those years ago.
  5. The A.V. Club
    Reviewed by: Emily L. Stephens
    Oct 11, 2016
    67
    With its thoughtful, understated performances and visuals and its frank embrace of uncertainty, this show should be compulsively watchable. Instead, the repetitive plotting and clumsy scares punctuating Channel Zero: Candle Cove fill a stylish, spooky story with unwelcome static.
  6. We Got This Covered
    Reviewed by: Mitchel Broussard
    Oct 11, 2016
    60
    Channel Zero might lack a distinct personality of its own to execute a hair-raising, short-form spook fest on the level of its concisely creepy source material, but it has an admirable, all-too-relatable emotional backbone centering on childhood fears, and a range of subtle and in-your-face frights, earning it at least a passing glance on your Halloween watchlist.

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User Score
7.4

Generally favorable reviews- based on 83 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 63 out of 83
  2. Mixed: 8 out of 83
  3. Negative: 12 out of 83
  1. antz2be
    Oct 13, 2016
    4
    This review contains spoilers, click full review link to view. I saw the first episode with great expectations. The Candle Cove Creepy Pasta is amazing, but the show is just wrong. Some of the twists of the creepypasta are just mentioned in the show and are lack of "punch" seems like fun facts. Also, they reveal all the mistery of the pasta in the episode so there is nothing much to see. The Candle Cove scenes are good, but the "monsters" in Channel Zero show (mr. Skeleton & mr. Teeth) are a couple of funny guys. In my personal opinion they just butchered the pasta and made a lame show.… Full Review »
  2. Qldgamer
    Oct 15, 2016
    5
    I came int the show with no idea what it was about and found it very confusing plot and some average acting. It has some interesting ideas butI came int the show with no idea what it was about and found it very confusing plot and some average acting. It has some interesting ideas but they are lost in the confusion.… Full Review »
  3. greenisgood
    Nov 12, 2018
    10
    Not too sure what a lot of the the negative reviews are about, probably people trying to compare this show to other conventional shows.
    A    Not too sure what a lot of the the negative reviews are about, probably people trying to compare this show to other conventional shows.
    A couple of negative reviews i read hinted at not being able to understand what was happening, and i think this is cus we have other decently good shows like 'Stranger Things' (which is a comparison i keep hearing in my own circles) and other such variables which seem to lay out all the plot points for easy understanding which is not bad at all cus i loved Stranger Things.
    BUT I Think this this show has much better writing considering quite a lot of the plot points in the first season depends on your own understanding of how things are happening and what your understanding is about human psychology which I absolutely love.
    Almost every episode I watched held my interest considering i never watched and or heard about the creepypasta tht it is based on, and maybe because of my ignorance of the subject matter it was based on i never could tell where the story was heading and I kept enjoying myself not knowing. Even at the end of the season, which was not the most brilliant of climaxes, but suitable in its own narrative, quite a lot of the 'but why or but how' questions were left up to your interpretation.
    The acting was excellent all around, and especially the children felt like real kids i know, who are bratty, whiny, noisy and or cry very fast.
    I loved the story from the angle of a therapist cus his meek and almost calmly thought out way in interacting with all the weird on goings in the season was quite refreshing.
    MY Only regret is i was kinda putting off watching this show until NOW, thinking that it was just another 'kids going missing under un-natural on-goings' ordeal, and I had just only finished 'Dark' which is another well written show.    … Full Review »
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