- Network: SyFy
- Series Premiere Date: Nov 30, 2016
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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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