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Positive:
14
Mixed:
6
Negative:
0
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Critic Reviews
Feb 22, 2018
Season 1 Review:
With each episode, Sud and her writers demonstrate a sharpened skill for pace and revelation, along with gracefully subtle ruminations on corruption, racial profiling and--more profoundly--the very nature of morality. ... Mostly what you’ll feel at the end is exhausted, regarding the clock with some bewilderment: Did I really just lose myself in 10-plus hours of gripping television?
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Feb 22, 2018
Season 1 Review:
It’s not the best or the worst of the lot, but at its most intelligent and heartfelt, it generates empathy for its characters, sadness at the culture that shaped them, and anger at the institutions that protect the worst among them. The unaffected emotion in every lead performance saves the bad scenes and elevates the good ones, and the overall spirit of the thing is unimpeachable.
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TV Guide MagazineFeb 15, 2018
Season 1 Review:
The legal and political firestorm that ensues is relentlessly grim in a very long and frustrating road to justice, offering meaty roles for Clare-Hope Ashitey as a train-wreck prosecutor, Michael Mosley as her gum-cracking detective with a thing for strays, Russell Hornsby as King's shattered husband and Gretchen Mol as a cunning shark lawyer. [19 Feb - 4 Mar 2018, p.15]
Uncle BarkyFeb 23, 2018
Season 1 Review:
Seven Seconds, which runs for more than 10 hours that seem like 15, follows the grim and grimy Sud playbook without really saying much of anything new. The fault lies not with its stars, most of whom perform very ably or well beyond that. It’s just that sometimes enough is enough.
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Feb 22, 2018
Season 1 Review:
Seven Seconds is good at showing its characters’ pain; it’s less effective at giving them a more rounded humanity, as Showtime’s series “The Chi”--also about the aftermath of violence--has done much better. But there’s a purity of dark vision driving the series, if you’re willing to take it without sweetener.
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Feb 22, 2018
Season 1 Review:
The series does make its point, that nothing is fair and the institutions designed to protect us are broken, even if it does so with an extremely heavy hand. It's hard, especially when King is onscreen, not to be reminded of ABC's superior American Crime, which more deftly handled complex social issues and told a better story in the process. If only there was a little more depth behind those Seven Seconds.
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