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Critic Reviews
ColliderMay 12, 2025
Season 1 Review:
The central investigation takes some wild turns, ending up in a place that feels both unexpected and natural for these characters while setting up a Season 2 that's even bigger in scope, drama, and action. That said, the best part of watching Duster, by far, is simply letting it take you along for the ride.
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Screen RantAug 28, 2025
Season 1 Review:
Although Duster occasionally steps out of its narrative wheelhouse, expanding its mysterious plot with some unnecessary characters that can only be paid off in a potential season 2, it really works when it keeps both eyes on the road. Jim and Nina are clever, engaging, and classically designed with loads of widespread appeal.
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May 15, 2025
Season 1 Review:
Duster knows exactly what it mainly is, which is a terrific vehicle for Josh Holloway. Rachel Hilson’s chemistry with Holloway is also a win, and sets up a wily criminals-and-cops yarn that delights in period references and music cues and exalts in the kind of car-as-character hero shots that defined a previous TV age.
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May 15, 2025
Season 1 Review:
Even as the series depicts period-accurate racism directed at Nina and her Native American colleague, Awan (Asivak Koostachin, a standout for his character’s cheerfully innocent disposition), “Duster” isn’t a super-serious show. It’s as playfully madcap as Holloway’s character.
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May 12, 2025
Season 1 Review:
It works. I like the show as a fun, souped-up ride-along (the title refers to the iconic Plymouth Duster the antihero drives), and enjoyed Josh Holloway and Rachel Hilson in the lead roles. The logic of the crime story got away from me a little bit, but it’s hardly essential when the other ingredients include fast cars, faster quips and a lot of acting tough.
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IndieWireMay 15, 2025
Season 1 Review:
Not all of it works (the car chases, which tend to take place on empty streets, aren’t all that memorable) and Season 1 never kicks into fourth gear (it’s fun, but it’s not “Cassian stealing a TIE fighter” fun), but “Duster” gets so many of the little things right, it’s easy to set your quibbles aside and just enjoy the ride.
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May 13, 2025
Season 1 Review:
Mr. Holloway, best known for playing the character Sawyer in “Lost,” is so good-looking all he has to do is strut, and he does a lot of that, though much of it seems to be in pursuit of making the point (that he’s so good-looking, etc., etc.). He does a bit less acting than Ms. Hilson does as Nina, whose crusade against Saxton is the engine of the storyline and whose partnership with Navajo agent Awan (Asivak Koostachin) is endearing.
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RogerEbert.comMay 13, 2025
Season 1 Review:
It’s undeniably fun for large stretches of its eight-episode first season, and it’s not actually Holloway who ends up stealing the project. Still, it’s also one of those programs that, sorry, spins its wheels more often than it should, and one that seems almost afraid to embrace its darker influences, choosing instead to push its messages of equality instead of embedding them more subtly into the narrative.
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May 15, 2025
Season 1 Review:
It wants to be more — more mysterious, more complicated, more feminist, more inclusive — and those impulses move Duster further and further away from any lizard-brain entertainment value it may have had. The imbalance of those component parts results in Duster feeling like one long prequel to the story Morgan and Abrams want to eventually tell.
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