- Network: Netflix
- Series Premiere Date: Feb 23, 2018
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The series would certainly benefit from some editorial tightening--reducing its number of episodes to five or six would have made it considerably more exciting. As its stands, Seven Seconds is admirably acted, but it’s a slow grind.
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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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There’s a solid, more consistent and shorter version of Seven Seconds within the 10-episode version premiering this week. It’s up to you if you have the time to find it.
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Seven Seconds doesn’t display any more storytelling discipline than “The Killing” did, and Netflix’s habit of indulging overlong episodic running times plagues “Seven Seconds,” which turns into a chore despite a promising start.
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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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As it plods along, Seven Seconds is often redeemed by superb performances from actors who are constantly called on to make the best of overwritten and not always credible dialogue.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 28 out of 39
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Mixed: 5 out of 39
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Negative: 6 out of 39
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Mar 19, 2018This review contains spoilers, click full review link to view.
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Mar 12, 2018This review contains spoilers, click full review link to view.
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Mar 9, 2018