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Critic Reviews
Mar 17, 2022
Season 1 Review:
“DMZ” has a striking visual tone, from the dystopian landscapes of burnt-out Manhattan to the color-coordinated interiors that pop with bright shades of blues and oranges and reds. ... Alma rises to a position of prominence in such fast fashion you’ll almost wonder if you skipped an episode, and for all the big-picture stuff taking place inside and outside the DMZ, the confrontations are often intense but pretty small scale.
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The PlaylistMar 16, 2022
IndieWireMar 13, 2022
Season 1 Review:
When scenes click, you want the show to be longer, so it can build drama more effectively and realize its premise with proper spectacle. But when those half-developed characters and shortcuts to climactic moments bog down momentum, the solution may have been to trim “DMZ” to feature length. ... Even in its hurried capacity, “DMZ” forms a moving story about minorities fighting for their place in a country that wants to box them in and deaden their spirit.
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Mar 18, 2022
Season 1 Review:
The actors stretch mightily in their performances to sell the many plot holes that "DMZ" requires us to ignore as we travel with Alma. Other details, including a ticking-down clock in the first episode, have no real purpose at all. Whether the poignant performances and rousing visuals are enough to carry viewers through its inconsistent flow is as tough to say.
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RogerEbert.comMar 17, 2022
Mar 17, 2022
Season 1 Review:
A series built around a US civil war is bound to get attention, especially in these polarized times. But "DMZ" merely uses that backdrop as a device to introduce another dystopian drama based on a DC graphic novel, basically "The Walking Dead" meets the '70s artifact "The Warriors." The result is an uninvolving miniseries that, at four parts, feels either too long or not nearly long enough.
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Mar 16, 2022
Season 1 Review:
Dickerson orchestrates the series’ only memorable action set piece in the third episode, only to follow that up with a “finale” that’s a mixture of artificial conclusions and hopeful set-ups for future adventures in case audiences flock to this series. It’s easy to see how these four episodes might evoke enough curiosity to get viewers in the door, but harder to see how DMZ will keep them watching.
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Mar 16, 2022
Season 1 Review:
“DMZ” can feel overstuffed, and as if it’s fighting to wrench depth out of its source material. ... “DMZ” devolves fairly rapidly into a Dawson-Bratt acting duet over shared backstory, which, though well-performed, makes only sputteringly occasional comment on their world.
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