- Network: Cinemax
- Series Premiere Date: Sep 9, 2016
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Quarry’s knack for conveying moral ambiguity and its mastery of setting reminds me of another very good show that took forever to catch on; it was about a cancer-stricken chemistry teacher in Albuquerque who started cooking meth to make money.
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Quarry is a startlingly good, absorbing new show to sink down into, deeply.
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There’s a lot of raw material for Quarry to draw from. Mixing Rectify patience with Banshee action is a tall order for any program, and while Quarry isn’t there yet, it gives the feeling that it won’t take too long to reach that point.
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Whether you fall in love with the Conways or not, Quarry ends very well, and in a way that leaves me hoping it can one day offer its own equivalent of that classic fourth season of Boardwalk Empire.
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An oddly absorbing new Cinemax series about alienation, amorality and blowing people's heads off, not necessarily in that order.
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If the main character at the center of Quarry is familiar and one prone to viewer fatigue, Quarry works because so much of the rest of the show around Mac is so rich.
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Mac’s complicated past and present leave him haunted and restless, and Marshall-Green has a low-key charisma that fits Mac’s sensibilities perfectly as a flawed anti-hero that’s worth rooting for in a story that’s instantly engaging. One of the most promis[ing] series of the Fall season.
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All together, Quarry feels like it would be a solid ensemble series if it chose to be, but even then Mac would feel like the weak link. As a lead, he’s a nearly fatal flaw.
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Shows like this only click when you're having some nasty fun, and fortunately we get some from Peter Mullan as a gentlemanly baddie and The Leftovers' great Ann Dowd as a gay gangster's mama. [9 Sep 2016, p.55]
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Some viewers may find Quarry’s atmosphere oppressive and unrelenting, like Memphis in August, and a few more moments of levity would be welcome, but just as many are likely to be seduced.
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[A] compellingly extreme thriller. [5-18 Sep 2016, p.23]
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It takes a while for Quarry to get started, and even when it does, you’re more likely to enjoy the bar-band music and admire the director Greg Yaitanes’s artfully composed Southern landscapes than to care much about why the people onscreen are so anguished and violent.
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While the show creates a distinctive setting and has a few characters worth meeting, Quarry never quite makes the case for why viewers should care about the sullen Mac’s increasingly desperate plight.
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There's no true sensibility governing Quarry; it's all signifiers and callbacks, whether inadvertent or purposeful, to more idiosyncratic shows and films. The series revels in a blandly familiar fugue state.
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The show strikes a particular note with great variety, but there are 87 other notes on a keyboard and you start to miss hearing them.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 68 out of 76
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Mixed: 2 out of 76
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Negative: 6 out of 76
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Sep 19, 2016
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Sep 10, 2016
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Sep 23, 2016