- Network: FOX
- Series Premiere Date: Jan 13, 2016
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Critic Reviews
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There may be interesting stories to be told about the nature of the soul and our resistance to change, but they're buried under the weight of the premise and the efforts to paper over multiple plot holes.
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The end result feels like a hideous pastiche of focus-group testing, procedural clichés and CliffsNotes literary references that got pulled out of the incubator about two seasons too early.
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Other than presenting Kazinsky with the late holiday gift of a starring role, there’s not much else to Second Chance. The twins feel as if they’ve been grafted onto the plot from another series, while DeKay’s sole note for much of the first few episodes is pissed off. Other shows have tackled estranged fathers and sons better.
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The right kind of fascinating character and performance could have made the premise work, but neither are in evidence.
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What sinks Second Chance is its consummate laziness, from the regressive characterization of its non-cis/white/male characters to its reliance on the most threadbare tropes of the buddy cop genre.
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Second Chance is so self-serious at times that it verges on parody, especially in every overwritten scene with the twins. The writing is atrocious, the production values are subpar, and there’s not a single good performance.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 101 out of 120
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Mixed: 9 out of 120
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Negative: 10 out of 120
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Jan 21, 2016
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Jan 23, 2016