- Network: SyFy
- Series Premiere Date: Nov 30, 2016
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For fans of speculative fiction, Incorporated will feel familiar. For those who read the news with an eye toward the worst, it might feel inevitable. But even when the central story fails to spark major interest, the world that’s been built is enough to keep us engaged.
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Key for any great sci-fi show, Incorporated’s creators, brothers Alex and David Pastor (“Carriers”), excel at filling in the details of their world.
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Besides the sharp yet paper-thin portrayals, the biggest problem with the show is timing. You look to Incorporated for dystopian fiction that expresses our current anxieties; what you get is fitful resonance that makes you realize it might be too soon for any show to meet that challenge.
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You’ll have to watch the series to really get into its flow. I was impressed by its big-bucks special effects which, for the most part, don’t get in the way of the show’s human element.
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The production values are high, the acting efficient, the story teems with twists and turns.
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Other parts of Incorporated are less interesting but at least the story is trying hard, and every time it misses a beat (bloody cage fighting on overdrive out in the Red Zone) it does something cool like dream up a service where you pay someone on a loud dirt bike to drive you up 18 flights of stairs in a sketchy Red Zone apartment.
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While their new show offers a vision of the future that isn’t particularly original, its plot is energetic, and its visuals are sleek and appealingly stylized.
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Not all of the characters pop, but Incorporated keeps things moving at a smart pace.
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Its dystopian bent is de rigueur, so much so that the series suffers from the other side of that savvy coin--it’s almost indistinguishable from its counterparts.
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Although its super-bleak future is nothing new, Incorporated does an above-average job of bringing it all home.
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While Syfy deserves credit for undertaking something that certainly sounds provocative on paper, creatively speaking, Incorporated doesn't ascend to the TV equivalent of the 40th floor.
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While Incorporated aims to create a personal story in the midst of this swirling sci-fi setting, it ultimately comes off as bland and boilerplate--though its greatest trick is that it remains eminently watchable.
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It is a sometimes clever, just as often clichéd mix of dystopian tropes, with performances ranging from nicely modulated to almost over the top, and some sly design that, along with some twisted PSAs, also accounts for most of the story’s humor. It is quite watchable and nothing special.
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Syfy’s derivative yet intriguing thriller.
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Incorporated looks great. It's intriguing and has moments of excitement, but lapses into tedious scenes that'll make you want to hit the the fast-forward button on the remote.
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Incorporated‘s by-the-books corporate espionage plot feels like a constant handicap on its more high-reaching notions.
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Not until Episode 2 do we get the first flashback (“12 years earlier”) that enables us to begin piecing together Ben’s origin story and motivation. That’s too slow a pace for a show as derivative as this one is.
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So much about Incorporated is predictable and rote, it's tough to buy into the story or its characters.
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Incorporated is just one of another grim dystopian futures we have become so fond of. Hey, it could be dead-on, but it really doesn’t have a lot to offer. There will be a few parallels to today, and it is mildly diverting as a thriller, but we have seen it before, even if it is the future.
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Incorporated is too often chilly when it should be chilling. [21 Nov 2016 - 4 Dec 2016, p.19]
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Being derivative isn’t necessarily a deal breaker for a television series, as long as the acting or the script can elevate the show. But not even Ormond or Haysbert can make their characters seem like anything more than two-dimensional figures. Teale, for all his efforts, barely registers as more than a handsome, brooding face.
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Scenes of cage-match violence are regularly inserted to break up the boring office scenes of people sitting across from each other at desks, jawboning about corporate strategies. The result makes the future seem like a more extreme version of the present, which, in turn, is simply depressing.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 33 out of 48
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Mixed: 6 out of 48
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Negative: 9 out of 48
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