- Network: CBS
- Series Premiere Date: Oct 1, 2014
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Critic Reviews
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Stalker is the kind of show that will have you checking the locks on your door--and changing your Facebook status to “guarded by rabid pitbulls.”
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Maggie Q and McDermott are competent, if not terribly interesting actors, and that about sums up the series as well.
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Q was great fun in “Nikita,” but here she and her castmates are stranded amid a tired series of cliches, hitched to a vehicle built on the hope “Criminal Minds” viewers will be too lazy or inert to push a button.
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Stalker won't get the kind of respect "Dexter" did, in part because it is more overtly cheezy in the generic showbiz way.
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Save yourself. Run from Stalker.
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From the time the first ghost story was told around some fire, people have enjoyed a good fright — but the prevailing feeling being provoked here is less one of terror than of abject despair.
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The show comes from Kevin Williamson, who created the more equal-opportunity torture porn "The Following," which at least has a literary sheen and some effective scares. Here there are just trope.
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Stalker at best is an unsavory blend of violent crime, voyeurism and by-the-book preachments just in case you aren’t getting its “messages.”
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There’s something desperate and torture porny about this show.
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[The pilot episode] winds up having a decent if unlikely resolution to its primary mystery. Even if it’s possible to get past the ugliness of the violence against women in the pilot, it’s hard to imagine that a procedural with such a tight focus won’t get old fast.
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Sure, one could argue that other primetime series such as Criminal Minds and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit dabble in what is best described as torture porn. But there is something especially nihilistic about Stalker ... and the way it handles violence against women.
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There may be a decent procedural lurking somewhere in here ... We get little payback, though, from watching a show that too often just feels uncomfortable.
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Stalker is pure terror porn from Kevin Williamson, who gave us the Scream horror-movie franchise.
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It's another CBS fear-mongering crime series whose end goal is to make you so scared to go outside that you stay in and watch CBS shows that make you scared to go outside.
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This new CBS drama proved to be as trite and cliched as was expected, with the extra added bonus of gratuitous violence perpetrated against women that did nothing but produce a disgusted eyeroll.
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This series works the tropes without the humor, and the result too often feels exploitive.
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Stalker is a manipulative piece of shock with no dramatic value, weak writing and characters you won’t want to get invested in.
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The violence, creepiness and depravity appear to be the point, because nothing of value is offered in balance.... It's unforgivable.
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TV really doesn't get much uglier or more cynical than CBS's Stalker, a crass and calculated attempt to keep the Criminal Minds crowd appeased for yet another hour of tacky, icky violence--disproportionately perpetrated against unfortunate women--presented within a glum, indifferently acted formula.
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I’ve reviewed literally hundreds of new shows. I can think of not one program that repulsed me more than Stalker. It sounds like hyperbole, but Stalker made me feel gross.
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It's all about the women-in-terror kick of frying them alive. (Oct. 15's episode promises a bride who's shot during her wedding.) Reprehensible.
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Stalker is only vaguely concerned with victim psychology. As a show that must, by its very premise, pick sides, Stalker tips eagerly toward the wrong one.
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Stalker doesn’t give viewers any good reason to stick around.
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This shoddy program is nothing more than exploitative, misogynist trash.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 96 out of 129
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Mixed: 6 out of 129
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Negative: 27 out of 129
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