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People who like procedurals will enjoy playing along. But the real charm of the series--as in a lot of cable originals--is in its ensemble.
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The pace is nicely brisk and both leads are amiable presences, but the writers could have worked a little harder on the prof's quirks. [13 Jul 2012, p.67]
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While it's no "Closer," the Eric McCormack vehicle Perception is perfectly adequate "Eccentric Consulting Genius" fare.
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For those who don't mind getting sent off in lots of false directions, or aren't going to even try to keep up, Perception offers the chance to just go along for an enjoyable ride.
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It's an enjoyable enough whodunit. The problem is McCormack. [23 Jul 2012, p.38]
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The ["quirky-genius" cop] genre is getting a bit moldy around the edges--and Perception doesn't add much to the tired mix.
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The crimes of the first four episodes revel in plot twists and medical conditions so ludicrous that they eventually become endearing, as does, against all odds, McCormack's performance.
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Perception is both clever and ridiculous.
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This reduction of a serious, debilitating illness to a personality quirk would be as unwatchable as it is insulting were it not for one thing: an appealingly disheveled star turn from Will & Grace's Eric McCormack as Daniel.
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Across the four early episodes provided for review, Pierce's hallucinations are already beginning to feel like stunts covering up for a lack of ideas.
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An otherwise run-of-the-mill mystery with a big twist.
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There are aspects of the series that are engaging--Daniel's intricately conceived sleuthing for the FBI, for instance--but, as the voices in your own head soon tell you, there's a lot more of it that's wearisome.
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Perception feels like an entry-level course, and isn't nearly as cerebral as it pretends to be.
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McCormack, in designer stubble, is no better than ordinary in the lead role. Nor are the cases at hand all that compelling.
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Perception is a head trip not worth the journey.
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The cases themselves are weakly constructed, with more holes than a box of doughnuts.
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Maybe at a certain point it won't feel like all this is a little too gimmicky, or that the rules are being made up as we go along. Out of the box, it kind of does.
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The show is not so much awful as it is a colorless copy of better shows that have come before.
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There's occasional chemistry between McCormack and Cook, who looks too young for her part as a seasoned federal agent, but instead of trying to build a flimsy romantic bond between the two, the writers would be better served focusing on crafting more thoughtful professional enigmas for their main character to obsess over.
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[Perception is an] inept, and sometimes offensive, drivel, turning serious mental illness into a chic tic and woefully underestimating the intelligence of its audience.
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There's very little that's fun about Perception.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 43 out of 59
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Mixed: 10 out of 59
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Negative: 6 out of 59
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Aug 1, 2012
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Jul 30, 2012
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Jul 10, 2012