- Network: ABC
- Series Premiere Date: Sep 29, 2017
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The pilot never finds its footing. ... Marvel's Inhumans has plenty of style but little substance.
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Inhumans flounders, trying to make the best of a dodgy premise, and looks like the worst Marvel show out there.
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The dialogue is so poor, even Tyler Perry would wince.
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Inhumans squanders its Marvel back story (largely unclear here), to come off silly and stilted (in the hands of “Iron Fist” showrunner Scott Buck), as it plods through a cheap parade of cliches in writing, design and production. Despite special effects up the wazoo, it’s utterly devoid of magic or wonder.
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The dialogue is stilted, the costumes are too literal, the sets are drab and the action scenes are poorly directed and hard to follow.
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Crammed with incessant exposition and shoddy special effects akin to those in ABC’s “Once Upon a Time,” “Inhumans” disappoints from start to finish.
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Marvel’s excessively miscalculated series is nearly performance art. It’s theater of the absurd. Or maybe it’s just a sloppy and hastily thrown together TV show to satisfy a corporate obligation, and no amount of Terrigen Mist is going to turn it into something interesting.
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At no point during the two-hour premiere does the action choreography, the writing, or the monsoon of hilarious excuses for special effects serve to justify this show’s existence. Swan and Mount are stiff and joyless, although given the insipid dialogue they’re saddled with, who can blame them for wearing a look of constant constipation?
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Frank Sinatra and others sang about the best things in life being free, but at least now the same is true of the worst things. ... Who and what we're supposed to be rooting for is maybe the biggest flaw in a series of insurmountable flaws and a crucial bit of storytelling [writer Scott] Buck was unable to crack.
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With each passing minute, Inhumans feels slower, dumber, and emptier.
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I’d like to say that Marvel’s Inhumans is so spectacularly awful, it’s worth tuning in just to witness the superhero train-wreck. But alas, Inhumans does not even yield sarcastic pleasures--it’s just bad. Bad in a dull way, bad in an irritating way. ... Marvel’s Inhumans is just inhumane.
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Inhumans has nothing at all to recommend it. Its only superpower is its sheer ineptitude.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 61 out of 188
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Mixed: 31 out of 188
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Negative: 96 out of 188
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