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Positive:
37
Mixed:
5
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Critic Reviews
Mar 29, 2021
Season 1 Review:
Invincible will have you sucked in by the end of the first episode with great action set pieces, but will really hook you in with the human elements. Rest assured, this is so much more than just another superhero cartoon. No, this is humor, mystery, drama, romance and science fiction, all rolled up into one absolutely addictive treat.
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RogerEbert.comMar 16, 2026
Season 4 Review:
Despite some minor pitfalls in its pacing, the latest season of “Invincible” reaches an undeniable series high. This is a show that has always taken risks in its displays of gore and violence, and thankfully, this continues in a bold examination of the impact this has not only on Mark and Nolan but on each character in the series.
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Screen RantAug 28, 2025
Oct 30, 2023
Season 2 Review:
The ending that serves as the finale for Part 1 of Season 2 doesn’t feel like a finale or a midseason finale in any way. In the long run, that is probably for the best, but for now? The back half of this season deserved to be released hand in hand with the amazing opening four episodes.
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Mar 29, 2021
Season 1 Review:
From its slick animation to its excellent voice cast, it's a winner from top to bottom. And just when you think you know exactly which direction it's going to explore, it pulls the rug out from under you in a truly exciting way. The long-running comic series couldn't have been made into a better serialized format, and if the rest of the show is just as interesting as this one, Amazon has quite the hit on its hands.
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Oct 30, 2023
Season 2 Review:
The Mark Grayson we know was one of the few to spurn his idol, and his choice captures the hope that courses through even Invincible’s bleakest moments. While infinite realities will spawn countless empires, the show understands that no tyrant is untouchable and no fate inevitable.
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Mar 19, 2021
Season 1 Review:
Invincible recaptures what our current glut of superhero fiction largely loses sight of: the pleasure that superheroes must feel when wielding their powers. Not the sacred satisfaction of helping the downtrodden, but the id-centered thrills of soaring through the sky and inflicting hurt on those deemed deserving. The series consistently makes smart use of music and sound to sweep you up in the bodily sensations of its heroes.
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ColliderFeb 3, 2025
RogerEbert.comNov 2, 2023
Season 2 Review:
Aside from the dart-throwing storytelling, the character writing and drama shared between whatever sector, hero or villain, is where the series lives up to its name. To its strength, Season Two seriously considers the previous events emotionally affecting the lives of its ensemble and expands on them thoughtfully.
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RogerEbert.comMar 23, 2021
Season 1 Review:
“Invincible” finds the right balance: acknowledging what a life-changing experience this is for Mark, including typical hero’s-journey scenes (crash landings that really reverberate, grueling training sessions that raise questions regarding what kind of lessons Nathan is teaching his son, and scenes where Mark befriends other teens who also boast similar abilities), and moving the story along so that it also focuses on other characters.
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Feb 6, 2025
Season 3 Review:
The writing, and the performances, are all top-notch—Yeun and co-star Gillian Jacobs, for instance, continue to have great chemistry as potential love connectors Mark and Eve—but there’s a stiffness in both action and drama scenes that leave the whole thing feeling cheaper than the show’s previous two seasons.
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Mar 24, 2021
Season 1 Review:
While you can’t describe “Invincible” as gritty, it does feel like the right kind of animated super-show for an era marked by Zack Snyder’s dark-hued “Justice League” reconstruction and Amazon’s own, ultra-pathological take on the genre, “The Boys.” It’s as clean-looking as any program we grew up with, but has the dirtier stuff we secretly wanted.
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The PlaylistMar 19, 2021
Season 1 Review:
There’s a chance that “Invincible” could get lost in the shadow of two massive super-titans like that headline-grabbing pair ["Zack Snyder’s Justice League" and "The Falcon and the Winter Soldier"]. The truth is that it’s in many ways the most inventive and interesting of the three projects, something that truly seeks to use the many clichés of the superhero genre in a fresh new way.
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Oct 30, 2023
Season 2 Review:
Anchored by leveled-up vocal performances, the returning Invincible maintains a strong throughline for Steven Yeun’s Mark and Sandra Oh’s Debbie as they deal with the fallout of last season’s violent finale. However, despite this compelling emotional core (and the show’s subsequent expansion in scale), season 2 becomes a shaky ensemble drama, owing to a scattered structure that tosses in supporting subplots almost at random, with few of them being granted the necessary time to breathe. It’s a promising foundation for the remainder of the season, even if it mostly establishes the puzzle pieces while fitting few of them together.
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Mar 24, 2021
Season 1 Review:
Amazon already has a searing satire about out-of-control superheroes, "The Boys," which has quickly become its signature series. "Invincible," an animated show with basically the same broad outline, thus feels a tad redundant, though the opening episodes, produced very much for adults, yield some of the same visceral thrills.
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Mar 22, 2021
Season 1 Review:
While Amazon is billing this as an “adult” animated series, that’s only in the sense that there’s ample gore and profanity. The designs (modeled on Walker’s art from the comics) and most of the characterization and plotting feel more suited to an all-ages show — a very good one, at that — but then someone’s head will burst onscreen. ... Still, it’s fun, and Yeun, Simmons, and Oh make for a strong central ensemble.
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Mar 25, 2021
Season 1 Review:
The series has a palpable “more of an eight-hour movie” thing going on, and the potential of that model is that it will all coalesce in the end into this glorious, big, transfixing story. But the pitfall is that it makes these opening episodes a little weaker; there are so many characters happening here, so many story threads to put in place, that it’s hard to know what to invest in as a viewer.
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The IndependentMar 19, 2021
Season 1 Review:
Some of its characters are unapologetic parodies (the Batman facsimile “Darkwing”, for example), and you could easily go through picking out elements or story ideas that have cropped up in Watchmen, or The Incredibles, or Sky High, or Misfits. But there are still some good bones to its premise, and just enough subversiveness to let you ignore the fact this is a story you’ve seen a hundred times before.
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Mar 26, 2021
Season 1 Review:
The voice cast is the easiest thing to praise about Invincible, which features J.K. Simmons as the gruff and irascible Omni-Man, Sandra Oh as Mark’s mom Debbie and Mark Hamill, Seth Rogen, Gillian Jacobs, Andrew Rannells, Zazie Beetz, Walton Goggins and Jason Mantzoukas in supporting roles. But their spirited turns can’t make up for the series’ fatally sluggish pacing — the result of stretching out what feels like a half-hour’s worth of material into 45 bloated minutes.
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Mar 18, 2026
Season 4 Review:
I sat down to these three episodes excited for the series to show me something new and instead watched as it treated character beats and battle sequences as buttons to mindlessly hammer on. I get that Invincible wants to make being a superhero feel like a grind. Does it have to make watching it feel just as bad?
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