- Network: BBC America
- Series Premiere Date: Aug 23, 2014
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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.
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It’s best simply to sit back and go with it.
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"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]
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Mr. Morgan achieves a reasonable facsimile of the clammy, apprehensive “X-Files” mood, without, as yet, managing any of its storytelling magic.
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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.
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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.
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There’s just not enough life in the concept thus far to prevent The Intruders, like its namesake, from hiding in plain sight.
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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.
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[A] somewhat violent and tepidly convoluted new thriller.
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A hopelessly murky and mind-numbing exercise in unrelieved portentousness bordering on wearying and opaque pretension.
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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.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 20 out of 41
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Mixed: 14 out of 41
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Negative: 7 out of 41
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Oct 4, 2014This review contains spoilers, click full review link to view.
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Aug 24, 2014This review contains spoilers, click full review link to view.
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Aug 24, 2014