- Network: FOX
- Series Premiere Date: Sep 26, 2011
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As a weekly series, the effects need to remain impressive and the writers need to avoid falling into "Lost" and "Walking Dead" band-of-survivors rehash.
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Terra Nova manages to introduce a panoply of narrative threads and themes while telling a remarkably clean story, both in terms of plot line and tone; Terra Nova is whole-family friendly.
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The Shannons overall are about the last reason I would recommend this show, after the cool visuals, some effective action set pieces and the expected strong supporting performance by Stephen Lang.
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Good family fun--providing your family doesn't include little kids who are scared to sleep. Ever.
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The opener is marred by a conventional plot. The producers--who include Steven Spielberg--show almost complete indifference to science (or sci-fi). That said, TV's most ambitious new series has some promise.
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If they keep the cute at bay for more dinosaurs and dirty dealings, this should be a great ride.
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Luckily for Terra Nova, fans of the genre are often at least temporarily willing to overlook bad writing and performances if the battles are exciting and special effects convincing, and they are. That should buy the show time to improve.
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Now that the premise of the show has been established, it would be nice to see more shades of gray and less black and white.
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Even with a lavish two-hour premiere, Terra Nova could stand to slow down and admire the world it has taken us to--Earth, 85 million years ago. Still and all, it's a dazzling debut, with a variety of compelling mysteries to get itself going.
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Terra Nova is another vehicle for a familiar story. It's one we're happy to watch, just maybe not with the fervor FOX is hoping for.
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Terra Nova walks a fine line and how well it manages to stay on that path will likely determine its ultimate success or failure.
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If you can make it past the exposition, and the earnest family cliches--a rebellious teenage son, an awkward brainiac daughter--there's plenty of satisfying dino action. And it all looks gorgeous.
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In the good-news department, Terra Nova is big, noisy and wildly cinematic, and Fox has pulled out all the stops with an Allosaurus-sized campaign to ensure the series opens--all the things that ought to generate sampling in a big-screen HD era.
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Terra Nova stakes out its own universe, and the fact that we have been on such journeys before may enhance the experience of this one.
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So long as the dinos roam, Terra Nova has a future.
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Even with Steven Spielberg listed among the executive producers, this distant world doesn't inspire much awe. [3 Oct 2011, p.45]
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 157 out of 308
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Mixed: 80 out of 308
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Negative: 71 out of 308
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Sep 27, 2011
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Sep 26, 2011
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Sep 27, 2011