- Network: CBS
- Series Premiere Date: Oct 9, 2008
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Sewell radiates the kind of fascination you can't buy off the rack at the TV drama store, and that alone gives Eleventh Hour a strong start.
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A bit generic, despite the creepy particulars of this series’ science-based mysteries--think a more mainstream "Fringe."
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Jerry Bruckheimer of "CSI" fame is behind this series, and it shows. The production is slick; the storylines are paced and told well; and the talent is top-notch.
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While supercool science may be the hook, the real draw of Eleventh Hour is Sewell.
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The show is entertaining enough, but the American Hood, played by Rufus Sewell, won't remind anyone of Patrick Stewart.
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The plot of tonight's pilot, which involves cloning, hews closely to the original's first, dark episode. A second, included for review, seems more like a CBS show, a murder mystery I'd like to think any of the network's three "CSIs" could've knocked off as easily.
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Both ABC's "Life on Mars" and CBS's Eleventh Hour have the comfortable feel of many shows that have come before them and lasted a long, long time.
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Tonight's premiere may seem like ridiculous twaddle, and it may feel like a major downer (and kinda sloooow), too, but maybe that's just Bruckheimer playing with our heads. In fact, Hour deserves a second look (next week is definitely better).
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Hood comes across as brilliant but aloof. Young, meanwhile, seems to be angry, but the source of her anger isn't really explored (we can only assume that babysitting a scientist, no matter how brilliant, is not the job people sign up for when they go to work for the FBI).
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Taken from a British series (although there is enough cribbing off American shows to make it seem all too familiar), this less-than-compelling knock-off follows Hood, who like House makes house calls--or in this case, crime calls.
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As it is, Hour arrives as yet another import procedural on a schedule that is already awash in both.
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Eleventh Hour does what it sets out to do: It puts a talented actor (Rufus Sewell) through his crime-solving paces on rain-slicked streets, in dark warehouses and in spooky labs that look almost identical to the rain-slicked streets, dark warehouses and spooky labs on almost every other CBS drama.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 13 out of 20
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Mixed: 3 out of 20
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Negative: 4 out of 20
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AlanHMar 11, 2009
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RustyCJan 9, 2009
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VictoriaB.Nov 23, 2008Love the show. Dr Hood (Rufus Sewell) is a very interesting character. I hope new episodes are ordered for the show.