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Positive:
13
Mixed:
10
Negative:
0
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Critic Reviews
Feb 21, 2024
Season 1 Review:
The pace is what many will think of as slow. I would call it deliberate, unhurried, and a smarter way to fill eight hours of television than plumping it up with extraneous plots and characters. It’s true that the storytelling does involve some repetition and circularity, and I imagine that some will find “Constellation” frustrating — you do have to go with its flow — but everything is to the point.
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ColliderFeb 9, 2024
Season 1 Review:
While nowhere as bold, there are echoes of the sensibilities of Skinamarink or The Outwaters at the core of Constellation, along with a slight sampling of something like Interstellar. The answers it uncovers aren’t wholly surprising, but they are as emotionally resonant as they are strikingly shot.
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Radio TimesFeb 9, 2024
Season 1 Review:
The twists and turns are brilliant (and we're keeping completely quiet about the jaw-dropping ending), but it's how grounded the show is that sets it apart. .... All of this is not to say that Constellation is a completely flawless series – the pacing in the middle could definitely have been improved. .... For this series, though, I can almost forgive it.
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Feb 20, 2024
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Feb 21, 2024
Season 1 Review:
It is only when the narrative moves beyond the existential dread of being lost in the stars that we grasp the true nature of the story, a twist that won't be disclosed here because the epiphany is electric. At that point, "Constellation" becomes a different experience, an irresistible one. And then, once we fully get it, it becomes different again: The onion-peeling in the program is handed off to the characters in the series. We know what they don't.
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Feb 20, 2024
Season 1 Review:
The real quantum entanglement is that of straight science-fiction action with dark fairy tale. The show’s creator and writer, Peter Harness, working with the directors Michelle MacLaren, Oliver Hirschbiegel and Joseph Cedar, carries off both with aplomb, and maintains a dry tone and an appealing atmosphere of foreboding. The mechanics of the narrative, as “Constellation” shifts through its different gears, can be creaky, but the show continually draws you in.
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Feb 20, 2024
Season 1 Review:
Constellation has the space horror down, and it has only scratched the surface as far as its deep bench of compelling characters goes. Once it opens up the greater conspiracy, once it gives a little more momentum to the mystery at hand, that's when Constellation will really take off.
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Feb 20, 2024
RogerEbert.comFeb 9, 2024
Season 1 Review:
While Rapace and Banks were expected to be the main draw of this series, and they’re excellent, the performances from Davina and Rosie Coleman are the glue that holds it together. But despite these moving performances, “Constellation” spends too much time floating aimlessly. The show likes to believe it's clever, but the reality is that it often falls flat.
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The TelegraphFeb 21, 2024
Season 1 Review:
At the conclusion of the three episodes with which the show launches, it is clear some sort of ominous and murky conspiracy is afoot. However, to reel the viewer in, Constellation needs to move faster. Instead, it floats about in a zero-gravity funk. The view is spectacular but the lethargic orbit makes for frustrating watching.
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Feb 20, 2024
Season 1 Review:
The problem is that Constellation is the latest streaming drama trying to stretch out two hours worth of plot so it will take up an eight-hour bag. Every idea is repeated, elongated, and then repeated again, until all that marvelous tension from the early chapters is gone long before the finale arrives.
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