Quarry

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Season 1
  • Network: Cinemax
  • Series Premiere Date: Sep 9, 2016
Metascore
72

Generally favorable reviews - based on 15 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 11 out of 15
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 15
  3. Negative: 0 out of 15
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Critic Reviews

  1. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Mike Hale
    Sep 8, 2016
    60
    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.
  2. Variety
    Reviewed by: Maureen Ryan
    Sep 8, 2016
    50
    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.
  3. Slant Magazine
    Reviewed by: Chuck Bowen
    Sep 7, 2016
    50
    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.
  5. New York Magazine (Vulture)
    Reviewed by: Matt Zoller Seitz
    Sep 7, 2016
    50
    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

73
#73 Best TV Season of 2016

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User Score
8.3

Universal acclaim- based on 76 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 68 out of 76
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 76
  3. Negative: 6 out of 76
  1. ondrazevsi
    Sep 19, 2016
    10
    The best thing to fill the void after Banshee and Justified. Excellent storytelling, action, fist- and gunfights, boobs... you name it. AndThe best thing to fill the void after Banshee and Justified. Excellent storytelling, action, fist- and gunfights, boobs... you name it. And moustaches.… Full Review »
  2. PoeticDumpling
    Sep 10, 2016
    9
    Wow! First episode of new Cinemax series Quarry is every bit as top-notch as I intuited from the trailer and then some. First things first,Wow! First episode of new Cinemax series Quarry is every bit as top-notch as I intuited from the trailer and then some. First things first, the creators of the series have both written for Rectify and one has written for HBO's eagerly anticipated Westworld in October. We know we are in good hands. Then, add in a fantastic lead who will surely rake in some nominations if he maintains his ace game as he has in the first episode. Logan Marshall-Green is one incredible new-er actor on the scene in a league with Tom Hardy (See The Invitation Asap). He's mind-blowingly talented and is extremely sexy, as well. The story is excellent, the camera work is beautiful, there are a handful of incredible non-verbal encounters/moments that speak volumes, the violence is startling, the issues go deep into well-developed character psychology, most of the other lesser known cast are excellent, and the guy playing "Buddy" is just the right amount of quirky and levity the show needs to keep itself from getting too serious....because it really, really is a gritty, serious drama at the core. Riveting, well-crafted and it hooked me in from the first few moments.

    First episode is A++++++ I sense a new obsession here. Here's hoping each week builds brilliantly from the extraordinary foundation laid here. Two enthusiastic thumbs up! I am betting this is going to be a series to keep on your radar.    … Full Review »
  3. doubledown-hust
    Sep 23, 2016
    8
    In today's TV landscape it's really hard to stand out and be different and new, Quarry is fresh but familiar with great actors and brilliantIn today's TV landscape it's really hard to stand out and be different and new, Quarry is fresh but familiar with great actors and brilliant talent driving the series with a wealth of Hard Crime books to mine from. The show feels like a Quarry hollow on the inside and hard on the outside as one of the characters names the lead.… Full Review »
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