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Critic Reviews
May 2, 2016
Season 1 Review:
The drama is light-hearted, perfect-for-summer fare. It’s a procedural that relies on its setting--you can expect other historical figures such as Bram Stoker and Thomas Edison to make appearances--and comic banter between the three main characters to make it attractive to viewers.
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Apr 29, 2016
Season 1 Review:
While historians may struggle with these early-century equivalents to rock stars as busy sleuths, Houdini's unshakably scientific stance can be refreshing, and it's entirely possible that the real Houdini and Doyle would have loved this--while they were still friends.
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Apr 29, 2016
Season 1 Review:
As is often the case with buddy-cop shows, the quality of the mysteries on Houdini & Doyle varies considerably week to week—some not bad, some so strained that even the Gerber baby would spit them out in disgust. What keeps matters interesting is the byplay among the characters, so philosophically at odds that they're often working against one another.
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May 3, 2016
Season 1 Review:
A dusty, ghostly imitation--theme-park TV at its most square and earnest. [6 May 2016, p.50]
RogerEbert.comApr 28, 2016
May 2, 2016
Season 1 Review:
The mysteries--involving nuns possibly murdered by a ghost in the pilot, and deaths connected to a faith healer in a subsequent episode--are too thinly constructed to hold your interest, and the characters are likewise one-dimensional and dull, quite a trick considering how interesting the actual Conan Doyle and Houdini were.
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TV Guide MagazineApr 28, 2016
Season 1 Review:
They may sound like a jokey law firm, but any amusement to be had in the fictionalized odd-couple crime solving partnership of Harry Houdini and Arthur Conan Doyle is sadly short-lived in this stilted Canadian-British import. [2-8 May 2016, p.19]
Apr 28, 2016
May 2, 2016
Season 1 Review:
Unfortunately, you won’t need to get past the second commercial break of the pilot episode to realize you’re watching the most banal type of procedural, dressed up in garish period costumes and clogged with faith-versus-science questions that get explored with all the depth and nuance of a political debate on The View.
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