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Well cast and written and staged with a campy sense of humor.
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Although Killjoys has ambition and creativity to spare, it often lags in execution. Compelling storylines find themselves saddled with heavy-handed exposition and clunky, B-grade dialogue.
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Hannah-John Kamen's strong performance and plenty of family drama do result in some solid personal lore, but the show lacks a sense of place. [19 Jun 2015, p.58]
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The action is good, with all three actors receiving and dishing out their fair share of abuse, but the story is, literally, difficult to follow.
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Killjoys tries to build a mythology, but both the low-rent look--a red filter for this scene! a green filter for this scene!--and the emphasis on fights over character development dooms the show to medocrity.
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Killjoys boasts slick outfits and action sequences, but the rest is pretty fuzzy. Characters are hard to define beyond their physical attributes, making them difficult to root for (or against).
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Frankly, the only moderately ambitious thing about the show is the set design--immersed as it is in brownish hues and grunge--and even that feels borrowed from any number of sources blessed with more expansive budgets or simply a heftier dose of wit.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 96 out of 119
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Mixed: 12 out of 119
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Negative: 11 out of 119
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Jun 20, 2015
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Aug 25, 2015
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Jul 1, 2015