Emerald City

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Season 1
  • Network: NBC
  • Series Premiere Date: Jan 6, 2017
User Score
6.7

Generally favorable reviews- based on 102 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 67 out of 102
  2. Mixed: 11 out of 102
  3. Negative: 24 out of 102
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  1. yosa1
    Jan 13, 2017
    6
    This is one you will just have to watch to know for yourself.

    I found myself both interested and waiting for the next scene, It does not present itself well as a story, but does make you curious as to what is going on. It sets itself apart by being more dark, the land is barren, the characters are desperate, the tone is depressing and slow. I would say, watch the first episode for    This is one you will just have to watch to know for yourself.

    I found myself both interested and waiting for the next scene, It does not present itself well as a story, but does make you curious as to what is going on.

    It sets itself apart by being more dark, the land is barren, the characters are desperate, the tone is depressing and slow.

    I would say, watch the first episode for sure, its quite a different take though.    … Expand
  2. emvampyre
    Jan 29, 2017
    4
    This show is jumbled and, well, interesting. It's trying to be fantasy, and steampunk, and dark, and edgy all at once, and that's how it gets lost within itself. I think I enjoy the show, and I will keep watching if nothing more than to see where it goes.

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#54 Most Discussed TV Season of 2017
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#19 Most Shared TV Season of 2017

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Metascore
47

Mixed or average reviews - based on 31 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 31
  2. Mixed: 14 out of 31
  3. Negative: 10 out of 31
  1. New York Magazine (Vulture)
    Reviewed by: Matt Zoller Seitz
    Jan 9, 2017
    30
    The entire thing feels too canny, too much the result of a marketplace gamble, and that’s especially dispiriting in light of the fact that all ten episodes are directed by Tarsem Singh, an extravagant visual stylist whose work tends to have a music-video-fashion-show-nightmare vividness even when the story makes no sense and isn’t trying to.
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  2. Reason.com
    Reviewed by: Glenn Garvin
    Jan 8, 2017
    40
    Practically all this ill-conceived series has going for it is spotting the mutations in plot and characters brought on by the conversion from fairytale to cheerless sword-and-sorcery epic.
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  3. St. Louis Post-Dispatch
    Reviewed by: Gail Pennington
    Jan 6, 2017
    25
    The plotting is goofy, the tone is relentlessly dark and the pacing is excruciatingly slow. Worst, the characters are hard to care about.
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