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Critic Reviews
RogerEbert.comJul 14, 2023
Season 2 Review:
It’s all a bit much to properly invest in. The math and science that cleverly helped create the world of "Foundation" now feels like it didn't before—it's homework. It’s amazing such a detailed epic like “Foundation” exists. But by becoming far wider, it risks stretching its power and sense of danger too thin.
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Sep 24, 2021
Season 1 Review:
This curious political unit raises interesting questions about individuality and if progress is possible without fundamental change, and it's the main source of fun in the show. ... Alas, the rest of the series lacks the spark of the royal court drama and often feels like a slog. While things get much more entertaining in the back half of the season, you may not want to trudge through Foundation's own dark period to get there.
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Jul 11, 2025TV Guide MagazineOct 11, 2021
Season 1 Review:
You might need an antacid - or whatever would remedy the tonal whiplash as Foundation meanders from cerebral contemplation of mankind's fate to a standard-issue shoot-'em-ups involving warring planets. [11 - 24 Oct 2021, p.11]
Sep 24, 2021
Season 1 Review:
Not much about Foundation sticks, either emotionally or narratively. There are cause-and-effect relationships between one event and another, but they’re stretched across long-attenuated frames, spun out over distances that are short enough to roughly remember there was a relationship there, but too long for that relationship to retain any urgency or heft.
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Sep 24, 2021
Sep 23, 2021
Season 1 Review:
Across the full 10-episode season, no hour of Foundation passed without multiple breathtaking compositions or pieces of well-considered visual world-building. Still, I needed more mind games and machinations, fewer literal tapestries and more tapestries of woven galactic history. The show provokes myriad instances of technical appreciation, yet rarely finds a way to be truly provocative.
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Sep 23, 2021
Season 1 Review:
Jam-packed with action, the pilot sets the stage for big set pieces in future episodes, but they never happen. Instead, we get decades-long spaceship trips and a lot of talking. “Foundation” rarely builds momentum, abandoning story lines for too long before picking them back up. Once you notice the story is going nowhere, other flaws become apparent.
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