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La Brea

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Mixed or average reviews based on 9 Critic Reviews

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La Brea

Series Details & Credits

NBC | Release Date: September 28, 2021

Summary: A gigantic sinkhole takes a group of Los Angeles residents, including a Eve Harris (Natalie Zea) and her son Josh (Jack Martin) into a primeval world where they must work together to find a way home in this drama series written by David Applebaum.

Creator: David Appelbaum

Genre(s): Drama, Action & Adventure, Science Fiction

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Critic Reviews

50

Reason.com

Glenn Garvin

Sep 24, 2021

Season 1 Review: The shark-jumping occurred in Happy Days' fifth season. But a critic who waits five years to declare a shark jumped these days probably won't have a show left to declare dead; three and a half seasons is now considered a healthy lifespan for a TV series. So let's give mad props to NBC's La Brea, which vaults the Selachimorpha in precisely nine minutes when it debuts next week. Read full review

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Decider

Joel Keller

Sep 28, 2021

Season 1 Review: There’s enough to like about La Brea that will keep viewers watching, despite the show’s more silly and cheesy elements, especially the mystery of where the “lost” Angelenos are and why they’re there. Read full review

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RogerEbert.com Brian Tallerico

Sep 27, 2021

Season 1 Review: While the pilot doesn’t have the immediate adrenalin rush of the first “Lost” (almost nothing on TV does), it does set up just enough to keep viewers engaged. ... There’s also the sad news to report that “La Brea” doesn’t look very good. Now, the cheap effects could be improved by the budget that usually balloons from pilot to second episode, but “La Brea” needs to lean into its insane concept to work. Read full review

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Variety

Caroline Framke

Sep 28, 2021

Season 1 Review: If “La Brea” [flies off the rails like CBS' Zoo], it just might find a loyal audience of people willing to go with it to the ends of the bizarro earth and back. If it remains determined to take itself very seriously, though, the bland procedural lurking underneath just might swallow it up. Read full review

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The Oregonian

Kristi Turnquist

Sep 28, 2021

Season 1 Review: One of the characters says it seems like they’re in an episode of “Lost,” and unfortunately, “La Brea” is the latest TV show to borrow from the “Lost” playbook. Read full review

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Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

Rob Owen

Sep 20, 2021

Season 1 Review: Instead of warding off Sleestaks, they run from CGI wolves. Back in L.A., bureaucrats appear to know more about the sinkhole than they let on to the public. Read full review

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The Guardian Lucy Mangan

Aug 1, 2022

Season 1 Review: It’s tremendously, gloriously, educationally bad. Read full review

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irial1111

Sep 3, 2022

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. A very good series especially episode 9 high-quality fiction all good actors let's support the series… Expand

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truerock

Sep 29, 2021

La Brea is a TV series of the disaster and science fiction genres. The series has 3 good actors:
Zyra Gorecki as Izzy Harris, the daughter of Eve Harris. A lot of people may consider her the star of the series.
Natalie Zea as Eve Harris, the mother of Izzy Harris. Eoin Macken as GavinLa Brea is a TV series of the disaster and science fiction genres. The series has 3 good actors:
Zyra Gorecki as Izzy Harris, the daughter of Eve Harris. A lot of people may consider her the star of the series.
Natalie Zea as Eve Harris, the mother of Izzy Harris.
Eoin Macken as Gavin Harris, the husband of Eve Harris
The other actors range from professional to below average

The writing is sometimes not bad - but, at too many other times is not good. David Appelbaum wrote episode 1. He did not do a good job. This is not just me. I think most knowledgeable viewers know he did not write a good script.

I'll continue to watch the series. I think it has potential.

People with an interest in prehistory in the circa 10,000 BC era might be drawn to the series. It will be interesting to see how scientifically accurate the series is in reproducing that era.… Expand

1 of 1 users found this helpful10

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Lanhavoc

Oct 22, 2021

Not nearly as bad as most reviews would suggest, however this show can easily be picked apart if you try to. There is a decent sci-fi disaster plot, though if it doesn't progress and give viewers some answers over time I can see how it might lose what little audience it has.

1 of 2 users found this helpful11

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Lostinohio21

Sep 28, 2021

Poor acting. I’ve seen better acting in a high school play. Admittedly, not much to work with Animated prehistoric wolves and birds that looked completely cartoonish, like something out of a 1960 movie. Cheaply done nonsense. I can’t believe that this trash will make it through even onePoor acting. I’ve seen better acting in a high school play. Admittedly, not much to work with Animated prehistoric wolves and birds that looked completely cartoonish, like something out of a 1960 movie. Cheaply done nonsense. I can’t believe that this trash will make it through even one season. Maybe if I was 12 years old I’d enjoy it. Who knows?… Expand

1 of 1 users found this helpful10

3

ajwiii

Oct 17, 2021

Stop trying to make political statements people are sick of it. Find a better term of endearment than sweetie, nobody says that.

2 of 3 users found this helpful21

3

SmartElder22

Sep 29, 2021

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Get some advisors over 50 years old. Saber tooth tigers did not have canines small as straws. Mammoths did not live in forests. Make it more about people than about dangers. So far it looks like a video game. If it's always hyper, you will lose your adult audience. Remember cell phones are useless without recharging. Leaving food out on the ground is just asking for critters to take it all. Use some old hippies who know how to make soap and candles from scratch. Weave baskets, make arrows etc, start someone on making clay pots to cook in and store fats in and other things. If you have excitement all the time, no one will stay with the show. Characters are much more intriguing. Basic American Indian culture included people who listened to plants to know what would work as medicine. I get the space/time rift, but as this takes place in present day america, lots of people will know about that "light" in the sky. Do NOT make the whole program about deadly dangers. Make it about people and you have a good start on that level. NCIS is popular because we are attached to character development, not the bad vs good. Other cop show just don't do that. They concentrate too much on speed and violence. Enough already. Again...drop the video game mentality and make it about the people more. Your dangerous animals need to be more realistic too. And you must include a few cats and dogs who were pets who fell into the hole also.… Expand

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Rogerdob

Oct 6, 2021

The best description for this poorly written, poorly acted show is that it is 2021 version of one of those schlocky sci-fi movies of the fifties. The only way to enjoy it is to watch it and be entertained by the bad dialogue and horrible special effects.

2 of 3 users found this helpful21

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Series Overview
Season 3

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- Season 3 Overview
  Air Date: January 9, 2024
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Season 2

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- Season 2 Overview
  Air Date: September 27, 2022
Season 1

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- Season 1 Overview
  Air Date: September 28, 2021