- Network: FOX
- Series Premiere Date: Oct 6, 2000
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If you're looking for signs of intelligent life in the new fall season, Freakylinks is one of a few blips of light in the darkness. [6 Oct 2000, p.4C]
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It's energetic, good-looking and kind of scary - just don't try to make sense of it. [6 Oct 2000, p.5E]
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The multi-ethnic cast is appealing and their cyber notions are nice, but it's hard to tell where this curious concoction is headed. They're certainly loading the dice with paranormal possibilities. [6 Oct 2000, p.B51]
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For me, it's just too much work on a Friday night. [5 Oct 2000, p.E2]
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It's actually rather confusing and only marginally interesting. [5 Oct 2000, p.C06]
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Fortunately, this sci-fi rookie, which aims for the younger, testosterone-tilting Fox audience, has a playful sense of humor to go along with its visually hyper sensibility. [6 Oct 2000, p.12D]
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There are some scary moments in the first episode, which is appropriately dark and foreboding. But you can't escape the feeling this is just another X-Files clone. [6 Oct 2000, p.1E]
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Visually interesting but otherwise blah. [6 Oct 2000, p.55]
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Don't waste time trying to follow it. This convoluted camcorder e-mess is already freaked out to reboot mode behind the scenes, and the grade drops accordingly. [6 Oct 2000, p.10]
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Tonight's premiere goes from spooky to goofy to intriguing to incomprehensible -- in that order. [6 Oct 2000, p.44]
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The episode quickly grows tiresome because the hero makes too many frightened faces, the foliage quivers too often, and the photography delivers arty effects rather than chills. [6 Oct 2000, p.E1]
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Freakylinks pours on all the visual horror tricks -- the atmospheric lighting, the weird close-ups, the slanted camera angles. All the tricks in the world, however, can't mask the show's failure to master even the most basic storytelling skills. [6 Oct 2000, p.10E]
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The only scary aspect is the fact that the Fox programming staff would find such an ungainly, hallucinogenic premise as meriting a Friday-night series order. [5 Oct 2000]
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A hokey, befuddling science fiction drama series from Fox. [6 Oct 2000, p.E-11]
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But somewhere during the process of shaping these ideas into "Freakylinks," which premieres tomorrow, somebody forgot about a couple of details: writing and acting. [6 Oct 2000]
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Cross the Web with "Blair Witch" 's jittery camera and what do you get? A good reason to shut off your computer AND your TV. [6 Oct 2000, p.S32]
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All I know is the barrage of jittery camera angles, herky-jerky editing, scary noises, angry lighting and unexplained visitors in the background gets really boring. [6 Oct 2000, p.E1]
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Freakylinks stinks, mostly... Created by a "Blair Witch Project" producer, Freakylinks includes hand-held camera shots that try to add creepy realism. Alas, they only drive home the show's creepy amateurism. [6 Oct 2000, p.D1]
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