Intruders
BBC America | Release Date: August 23, 2014
CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
47
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 17 Critic Reviews
Positive:
3
Mixed:
10
Negative:
4
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
80
The Hollywood ReporterTim GoodmanAug 22, 2014
Season 1 Review: Credit Morgan, the original source material of the book (there is some deviation, according to Morgan) and BBC America for crafting an instantaneously addictive piece of television. Read full review
75
St. Louis Post-DispatchGail PenningtonAug 18, 2014
Season 1 Review: It’s best simply to sit back and go with it. Read full review
75
Entertainment WeeklyClark CollisAug 15, 2014
Season 1 Review: "Don't Let Them In" reads the show's tagline, but we're happy to have this show intrude upon our Saturday nights for the time being. [22/29 Aug 2014, p.101]
50
Los Angeles TimesRobert LloydAug 25, 2014
Season 1 Review: Though some of it is effective, much of it is not, for all that it strong-arms the viewer with dark atmosphere and upsetting events. (Watch out for that cat.) It is, in its opening hours at least, a moody muddle. Read full review
50
Boston GlobeSarah RodmanAug 22, 2014
Season 1 Review: The atmosphere is suitably creepy--the show features that famously cinematic Pacific Northwest drizzle and Bear McCreary’s ominous score--and there are some tantalizing bits that make you wonder how the intruders work their mojo. But with so much heavy lifting required by viewers, it could prove difficult to let Intruders in. Read full review
50
Pittsburgh Post-GazetteRob OwenAug 22, 2014
Season 1 Review: The show does begin to fill in a few blanks, particularly the immortality angle, in its second episode, but it’s still a slow, sometimes tedious process. Read full review
50
Uncle BarkyEd BarkAug 21, 2014
Season 1 Review: Being neck-deep in a muddy, murky eerie canal gets tiresome in due time. And the performances aren’t all that hot either in this adaptation of Michael Marshall Smith’s 2007 novel. Read full review
50
New York PostSara StewartAug 19, 2014
Season 1 Review: The episodes are prettily shot, with the region’s natural misty gloom adding plenty of atmosphere. But the dialogue’s never clever enough to convince you this is more than an amalgamation of themes we’ve seen many times before. Read full review
40
The OregonianKristi TurnquistAug 25, 2014
Season 1 Review: We know very little about any of the characters, and it's hard to care about them as they go about their doings under an ominous cloud of supernatural dread. Read full review
40
The New York TimesMike HaleAug 22, 2014
Season 1 Review: Mr. Morgan achieves a reasonable facsimile of the clammy, apprehensive “X-Files” mood, without, as yet, managing any of its storytelling magic. Read full review
40
New York Daily NewsDavid HinckleyAug 22, 2014
Season 1 Review: There may not be a quiz, but without notes you’ll almost certainly miss some of the twists and clues. The eight-episode Intruders, based on the Michael Marshall Smith book, doesn’t fear the dense. Read full review
40
RogerEbert.comBrian TallericoAug 21, 2014
Season 1 Review: It’s bizarrely humorless (other than a cool “The X-Files” reference late in the first episode) and keeps its mysterious plot vague enough that it doesn’t give viewers enough to hold on to. Read full review
40
VarietyBrian LowryAug 20, 2014
Season 1 Review: There’s just not enough life in the concept thus far to prevent The Intruders, like its namesake, from hiding in plain sight. Read full review
30
The Huffington PostMaureen RyanAug 22, 2014
Season 1 Review: Unfortunately, heaping helpings of atmosphere do not make up for the lack of a strong narrative thread or the fact that the characters are so thinly drawn that it's hard to care about anything they do. Read full review
30
Washington PostHank StueverAug 22, 2014
Season 1 Review: [A] somewhat violent and tepidly convoluted new thriller. Read full review
30
TV Guide MagazineMatt RoushAug 22, 2014
Season 1 Review: A hopelessly murky and mind-numbing exercise in unrelieved portentousness bordering on wearying and opaque pretension. Read full review
25
San Francisco ChronicleDavid WiegandAug 19, 2014
Season 1 Review: It takes two episodes to begin to understand it, and once you do, you may not care much, except for the presence of some very respectable actors. Read full review
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