Deadly Class

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Season 1
  • Network: SyFy
  • Series Premiere Date: Jan 16, 2019
User Score
7.6

Generally favorable reviews- based on 55 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 44 out of 55
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 55
  3. Negative: 7 out of 55
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  1. Elthor
    Jan 16, 2019
    2
    I think there were some good elements, but for the life of me I can't remember any. (Oh, wait, Henry Rollins FTW.)

    I spent the episode alternately tense that they might kill off any given character, and then disappointed when they didn't because I realized I hated every single one of them and I want them all to die. It is hard to decide if the young actors are incompetent or the    I think there were some good elements, but for the life of me I can't remember any. (Oh, wait, Henry Rollins FTW.)

    I spent the episode alternately tense that they might kill off any given character, and then disappointed when they didn't because I realized I hated every single one of them and I want them all to die.
    It is hard to decide if the young actors are incompetent or the terrible dialog is just impossible to deliver well. I suppose it could be both.

    Stylistically it feels like a cross between a rip-off of Fight Club, The Warriors, and a roll in a dumpster. It's not a badly done period show so much as tired and dated. The biggest problem is the original comic is firmly rooted in the 80s and there is no way to update it without gutting it. Yet a good gutting is what is needed. I would have started with the narration which reaches David Lynch Dune levels of awful.

    I will now bleach my eyeballs and take a shower.
    To be fair about it, I'll still watch one more. Syfy has a proud tradition in recent years of soft rebooting new series between the pilot and episode two.    … Expand
  2. Yurchik
    Mar 17, 2019
    2
    The series tries to be serious, but it does not work. All problems arise out of nowhere and do not seem real. Look, just because of the sexy María Gabriela de Faría!
  3. PogoTime
    Mar 18, 2019
    2
    The First Episode was "ok" like a 8/10 cause the Music and Setting seems promising.
    But beginning with the second episode this series is just pure trash - the writing is just so flat and boring. I think you could completly improvise the Talking and would end up better.

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Metascore
58

Mixed or average reviews - based on 13 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 13
  2. Mixed: 6 out of 13
  3. Negative: 1 out of 13
  1. RogerEbert.com
    Reviewed by: Allison Shoemaker
    Jan 17, 2019
    75
    There’s certainly a spark from time to time. But for now, Deadly Class is failing to live up to its potential. It’s messy and hollow.
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  2. Salon
    Reviewed by: Melanie McFarland
    Jan 16, 2019
    70
    Occasionally the dialogue lays into this a bit too thickly, via character soliloquies resembling anti-corporate rants from the “Repo Man” school of screenwriting. Viewers turned off by that won’t be impressed by the cynicism winding through the opening episodes, either. But the central cast, led by Wadsworth and Condor, wins you over eventually--or, I should say, the most fleshed out characters featured within the first four episodes do this.
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  3. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Megan Vick
    Jan 16, 2019
    85
    You'll like Deadly Class from the beginning, but it takes a beat for you to actually fall in love. There is one exception to that statement. Lana Condor, who became an internet sensation last summer as Lara-Jean Covey in Netflix's To All the Boys I've Loved Before, is an immediate stand-out from this remarkable cast.
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