Channel Zero

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Season 1
  • Network: SyFy
  • Series Premiere Date: Oct 11, 2016
Season #: 4, 3, 2, 1
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
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  1. antz2be
    Oct 13, 2016
    4
    This review contains spoilers, click expand 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.… Expand
  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 but they are lost in the confusion.
  3. CelestialFox
    Jan 30, 2017
    4
    When I first saw the trailer for this show I was hooked. It looked like a fresh suspenseful new show with promise like Stranger Things with a creepy monster covered with human teeth. When it released, I became excited and began my binge sitting through the 6 episodes only to be completely disappointed about midway through all the way up until the end (I was hoping it would pick up, theWhen I first saw the trailer for this show I was hooked. It looked like a fresh suspenseful new show with promise like Stranger Things with a creepy monster covered with human teeth. When it released, I became excited and began my binge sitting through the 6 episodes only to be completely disappointed about midway through all the way up until the end (I was hoping it would pick up, the story would be explained and it would get better but it didn't AT ALL). After the first 2 episodes it became confusing. Events became unexplained and remained unexplained throughout the entirety of the show, the story was riddled with plot holes EVERYWHERE, the acting was decent at best, and let's not forget to mention the extremely long panning shots that give you enough time to get up to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, play a game of chess and go for a mile run before returning to your seat as the panning has finished.

    I cannot recommend this show at all. If you think this short 6 episode series is worth a watch, by all means go for it but don't say I didn't warn you.    … Expand

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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
  1. 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.
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  2. 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.
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  3. 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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