Dr. Brain

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Season 1
Metascore
71

Generally favorable reviews - based on 11 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8 out of 11
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 11
  3. Negative: 0 out of 11
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Critic Reviews

  1. New York Magazine (Vulture)
    Reviewed by: Kathryn VanArendonk
    Nov 4, 2021
    60
    It’s a curious combination of glorious, terrifying genre storytelling with the plodding dramatic rhythms familiar from many other Apple TV+ hour-long series.
  2. IndieWire
    Reviewed by: Steve Greene
    Nov 3, 2021
    58
    “Dr. Brain” is left with a mildly twisty detective mystery, marked by fits and spurts of blunted dream logic, a sprinkling of technobabble, and an attempt at retrofitting a family survival story. All three are decently competent in their final form, but this is a show that can’t escape the hints it makes at something far more imaginative.
  3. The Hollywood Reporter
    Reviewed by: Daniel Fienberg
    Nov 3, 2021
    40
    For a show with a wild central premise and a goofily brazen title, nothing here rises to the level of wildness that the show is teasing, nor is there the sort of grounding that could work as an alternative. ... There are action scenes and fleeting attempts at supernatural frights, all delivered with joylessness rather than the excitement of a storyteller enjoying a potentially boundless and entertaining narrative framework.