Houdini

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Season 1
User Score
7.2

Generally favorable reviews- based on 31 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 19 out of 31
  2. Mixed: 11 out of 31
  3. Negative: 1 out of 31
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Metascore
51

Mixed or average reviews - based on 16 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 16
  2. Mixed: 10 out of 16
  3. Negative: 2 out of 16
  1. Chicago Sun-Times
    Reviewed by: Lori Rackl
    Sep 17, 2014
    50
    If only Houdini could have waved a wand and made half of this too-long miniseries disappear.
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  2. The Oregonian
    Reviewed by: Kristi Turnquist
    Sep 2, 2014
    40
    Instead of bringing us closer to what it felt like to be the great Harry Houdini, we instead hear Brody adopt a tough-guy tone as he rattles off clichés that sound like anachronistic film noir parodies.
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  3. St. Louis Post-Dispatch
    Reviewed by: Gail Pennington
    Sep 2, 2014
    50
    Adrien Brody is impressive as Houdini in the History Channel's two-night biography, and many of his stunts are re-created (and explained) in fascinating detail. But the miniseries, a co-production with Hungary, Houdini's home country, is too slow and too-often hokey to rate a rave.
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