Pacific Heat

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Season 1
  • Network: Netflix
  • Series Premiere Date: Nov 27, 2016
User Score
3.6

Generally unfavorable reviews- based on 38 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 12 out of 38
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 38
  3. Negative: 23 out of 38

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  1. Graeg
    Dec 5, 2016
    0
    Pacific Heat is trying to be another show and failing. To make matters worse, that show is Moonbeam City, which itself was trying to be Archer and failing. Against my better judgement, I forced my way through the first 3 episodes in the hope of finding something redeeming, but found only disappointment (mostly in myself).

    The plots are adequate, but nothing special - just your typical    Pacific Heat is trying to be another show and failing. To make matters worse, that show is Moonbeam City, which itself was trying to be Archer and failing. Against my better judgement, I forced my way through the first 3 episodes in the hope of finding something redeeming, but found only disappointment (mostly in myself).

    The plots are adequate, but nothing special - just your typical spec/ops tropes. The characters are bland and uninteresting and the dialogue jumps from 1 bad one-liner to another (mostly playing on the characters' apparent inability to understand whatever other characters are discussing, interspersed with poor attempts at Horatio Caine-esque puns, which the other characters Also fail to understand), all spoken in a deadpan manner.

    The level of stupidity each of these characters manages to achieve in most scenes is tiresome enough on its own (we get it, they're dumb), but it is made all the more perplexing when these same characters suddenly display incredible intelligence on a particular subject, despite having shown none on that same subject just minutes earlier. These bursts of intelligence are not shown as "aha!" moments, but are merely sprinkled in normal conversation, with that particular character speaking the line as normal - as if taking on the role of "the only smart one" for those 20 seconds before going back to normal. All characters - the suddenly smart one and the listening idiots - seem to take this in stride. If that is the joke, it has very clearly been missed.

    To make matters worse, each character - including ancillary ones - are written this way. It's as though this show's world only has one functioning brain and the characters merely take turns using it. Imagine Sealab 2021 without Dr Quinn's outrage at everyone else's stupidity - and all lines being read without any emotion whatsoever.

    This could all be tolerated if the show had some sort of physical comedy (slapstick) or intense action scenes to showcase, but those are also sorely lacking. The infrequent action scenes are as devoid of excitement as the dialogue. There was one or two action scenes that showed promise, where a character would do something right and say something in that stereotypical "cop show action hero" tone, but the same character quickly returned to normal by doing and/or saying something stupid.

    That pretty much sums up the whole show: It's Moonbeam City minus the 80's glitz, with characters torn from Sealab 2021 (excluding Dr Quinn), who all interact with poorly written dialogue, spoken in an almost entirely deadpan manner, that has little to no action (comedic or otherwise) to hold it up. It's not even "so bad it's good", it's just "bad". Don't waste your time, or at least don't say I didn't warn you.    … Expand
  2. Agentsmith35
    Dec 13, 2016
    1
    I wanted to like this show going into it, but the characters are unmemorable, the voice acting is sub-par, and the comedic delivery is weak at best. I did give it at least a one because it cured my insomnia.
  3. mpelley92
    Dec 3, 2016
    0
    To put it very plainly, this show steals many different ideas from the show Archer. With that said, it isn't even a good knock-off of the show. You have characters that have no real value, with a cast that cannot seem to understand that no one can listen as fast as they talk. There is no emphasis put on any of the lines, making it appear as one big mess.
  4. LosDuderino
    Feb 16, 2017
    3
    Production quality is poor. Even in HD the characters and backgrounds are hazy. Here's a sample of the dialogue:

    "lock and load"

    "Yep, just remind what lock and load is again?"

    "arm our weapons"

    "ssssh"'

    "Alright. You're the one who wanted us to lock and load"
  5. Knighthawk81
    Dec 5, 2016
    1
    Not sure what they were going for here, but it doesn't work. I watched the first two episodes and they were dull, unfunny and, at times, just plain stupid.
  6. Erotes
    Dec 6, 2016
    1
    The animation has an anime-esque aesthetic that looks like a fine arts college student's project. I'm all for satirical ethnic jokes but this show just seems racist. The main characters consist of your douchey wannabe wise cracking agent complete with nineties hair cut and the push over blonde who is supposed to be the smart one. The other two have darker complexions and only speak whenThe animation has an anime-esque aesthetic that looks like a fine arts college student's project. I'm all for satirical ethnic jokes but this show just seems racist. The main characters consist of your douchey wannabe wise cracking agent complete with nineties hair cut and the push over blonde who is supposed to be the smart one. The other two have darker complexions and only speak when the writers want to remind us of how dumb and inept they are in an attempt to be funny but the jokes always seem to miss the mark.

    A cast of U likeable characters, poor animation style, and bad writing make this show very hard to be enjoyed by a broad audience. Not to mention another show from FX that seems to share uncanny similarities... I would have given this show a zero but because some effort was given to make it I think that would be unfair (poor taste can't be helped). Also, I think some people would enjoy it, so despite the horrible reviews from horrible wannabe critics like me, give it a shot and see for yourself.

    Another review pointed out how all negative reviews are from folks who don't enjoy or don't know how to enjoy mindlessly funny humor. I am all for dumb humor... This show is simply, for me, a very hard pill to swallow.    … Expand
  7. jaytea2789
    Apr 3, 2017
    0
    LOL this is Netflix trying to make their own "Archer", and they're failing at it, miserably. Similar art style, similar halfwit characters, similar cocky nature to some of these halfwits. All it took was me seeing the thumbnail to realize this was a wannabe Archer, and after watching it, it becomes more apparent.
  8. Bowserstein
    Apr 13, 2017
    0
    How hard can one show directly rip off Archer? Pretty **** hard, apparently. This show looks like they saw Archer, hired people, well, gathered interns who never held a Wacom pen before by promising them 'exposure', and slapped together this pile of garbage in a few months. They copied EVERYTHING about Archer, but did a **** job at it in every aspect. They tried doing 'quick cut' editingHow hard can one show directly rip off Archer? Pretty **** hard, apparently. This show looks like they saw Archer, hired people, well, gathered interns who never held a Wacom pen before by promising them 'exposure', and slapped together this pile of garbage in a few months. They copied EVERYTHING about Archer, but did a **** job at it in every aspect. They tried doing 'quick cut' editing for gags and it was almost seizure inducing how fast they were doing it. Calm the **** down first-year Premiere guy. They copied, to a T, their style for establishing shots right down to the camera moving on 2s to make it look a little jankier. **** this show and **** the copy-cat posers who created it. Make something original you asswipes.… Expand

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Metascore
27

Generally unfavorable reviews - based on 5 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 0 out of 5
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 5
  3. Negative: 3 out of 5
  1. We Got This Covered
    Reviewed by: Isaac Feldberg
    Dec 2, 2016
    40
    Pacific Heat refuses to give its characters any breathing room, instead overstuffing each episode with an overabundance of zingers and ultimately pointless gags.
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  2. Collider
    Reviewed by: Chris Cabin
    Dec 2, 2016
    20
    Pacific Heat feels hollowed out and devoid of even the slightest measure of personality. Even the animation design feels completely apathetic and bare-bones, which might have been fine if the writing had elicited any emotion beyond boredom and one or two blips of offense.
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  3. IndieWire
    Reviewed by: Ben Travers
    Dec 2, 2016
    33
    It’s not anywhere close to what’s needed to make this kind of humor work, and just one more reason you shouldn’t be wasting your time on this wannabe when the real thing is one click away.
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