Low Winter Sun
AMC | Release Date: August 11, 2013
CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
60
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 27 Critic Reviews
Positive:
10
Mixed:
16
Negative:
1
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
60
New York Daily NewsDavid HinckleyAug 12, 2013
Season 1 Review: Low Winter Sun is a good show with the potential to grow into a very good show. Read full review
60
The New York TimesAlessandra StanleyAug 8, 2013
Season 1 Review: Low Winter Sun is so clotted with bleak cityscapes, shadowy interiors and brooding portent that the narrative sags under the weight of all that mood-setting. Read full review
60
Philadelphia InquirerDavid HiltbrandAug 8, 2013
Season 1 Review: Low Winter Sun goes for a mood darker than noir. It's atmospheric, but the air it generates is noxious. Read full review
58
Uncle BarkyEd BarkAug 8, 2013
Season 1 Review: Low on initial appeal and likewise short on originality, it’s a bleak ’n’ grim undertaking that just doesn’t seem built for the long haul. Read full review
50
People WeeklyOliver JonesAug 16, 2013
Season 1 Review: The gutted-out city is perhaps the show's most compelling character. [26 Aug 2013, p.38]
50
San Francisco ChronicleDavid WiegandAug 12, 2013
Season 1 Review: The performances really are good, almost good enough to make the hokey dialogue believable, but not quite good enough to make Low Winter Sun a must-see when there are so many other shows--about cops and otherwise--that do this moral ambiguity thing much better. Read full review
50
Kansas City StarSara SmithAug 9, 2013
Season 1 Review: It’s a fascinating visual ride. But without heroes worth rooting for or a victim worth avenging, the rubble heaps of an imploded metropolis can only do so much heavy lifting. Read full review
50
Slant MagazineMike LechevallierAug 9, 2013
Season 1 Review: Low Winter Sun too often lingers on Detroit's colorless evil more than its spirited righteousness, resulting in an overwhelmingly bleak narrative that feels as cold and lifeless as a corpse. Read full review
50
TimeJames PoniewozikAug 9, 2013
Season 1 Review: Sun, a series adaptation of a British miniseries (which also starred Mark Strong) is, after the two episodes I’ve seen, a unremarkable in itself: a paint-by-the-numbers serious-cable series where all the numbers indicate a shade of black. Read full review
50
TV Guide MagazineMatt RoushAug 9, 2013
Season 1 Review: Sun aspires to the breadth if not the depth of The Wire. But it's so self-conscious in its existential misery, lacking the leavening humor and humanity of a modern classic like Breaking Bad, that it often feels more punishing than provocative. Read full review
50
USA TodayRobert BiancoAug 9, 2013
Season 1 Review: Too much simply rings forced and phony, from the dialogue to the plot to the characters. Read full review
50
VarietyBrian LowryAug 6, 2013
Season 1 Review: For now, Low Winter Sun has created a reasonably compelling universe, without as yet establishing the gravitational pull necessary to ensure viewers stay in its orbit. Read full review
40
Boston GlobeMatthew GilbertAug 9, 2013
Season 1 Review: It comes off as a straining, overly serious wannabe. Read full review
40
New York Magazine (Vulture)Matt Zoller SeitzAug 9, 2013
Season 1 Review: If the show were badly directed, photographed, edited, and acted, at least you could have fun laughing at it, but everyone’s working so hard to put across unremarkable material that the best one can manage is a kind of exhausted empathy. Read full review
40
Wall Street JournalDorothy RabinowitzAug 9, 2013
Season 1 Review: A situation brimming with the potential for suspense, and irony. Those may yet emerge, if only someone produces a script to make it possible. For the moment, all that is brimming here is the evidence of an ill-advised faith in the drawing power of depressive police dramas. Read full review
40
The Huffington PostMaureen RyanAug 6, 2013
Season 1 Review: The drama, which is an adaptation of a U.K. series of the same name, tries way too hard to be a Serious Cable Drama. The strain almost turns it into a parody of the genre. Read full review
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