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The Ark

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Mixed or average reviews based on 9 Critic Reviews

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Generally unfavorable reviews based on 12 Ratings

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The Ark

Series Details & Credits

SyFy | Release Date: February 1, 2023

Summary: With their destination still a year away, the crew of Ark One struggles to survive after their ship suffers damage and loss of crew members in this sci-fi drama created by Dean Devlin.

Genre(s): Drama, Science Fiction

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S2:E12. Fortunate
Air Date: October 2, 2024
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S2:E11. It Will Be Over Soon
Air Date: September 25, 2024
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S2:E10. It Should Have Been You
Air Date: September 18, 2024

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Critic Reviews

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RogerEbert.com Nick Allen

Jan 31, 2023

Season 1 Review: “The Ark” is a nifty problem-solver sci-fi show, made digestible by shameless stock dialogue mixed with plenty of cliffhanger moments. Read full review

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The Hollywood Reporter

Angie Han

Jan 31, 2023

Season 1 Review: The Ark may never be admired for its thematic profundity, or its brave ideas, or its nuanced character development. But by the fourth hourlong episode sent to critics (of a 12-episode season), it finds its own groove as a bit of exciting, undemanding fun. Read full review

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Paste Magazine

Kathryn Porter

Feb 1, 2023

Season 1 Review: It’s an easy watch, it doesn’t make you use your brain an unreasonable amount, and it has a good premise that is easy to follow and care about. It isn’t trying to reinvent the wheel, and it should not aim to. The best part about it is that it’s exactly what someone should expect if they flip to Syfy. Read full review

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Wall Street Journal

John Anderson

Jan 31, 2023

Season 1 Review: “The Ark,” in its “Star Trek”-meets-“Love Island” manner, is enjoyable and engaging enough, especially if one ignores the overly broad acting, contrived conflicts, abrasive people and constant sniping among the characters. ... It’s a trope that the low-ranking people in a quasi-situation comedy such as “The Ark” are not only more charming but more capable than their superiors, who spend much time stewing over power and seizing authority. But if viewers expected the new world to be much different from the old, this series will disabuse them of that. Read full review

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Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

Rob Owen

Jan 26, 2023

Season 1 Review: “The Ark” is poorly written (grating exposition galore!) with mediocre special effects and cardboard characters. Syfy’s latest disappoints on every level. Read full review

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CNN

Brian Lowry

Feb 2, 2023

Season 1 Review: If this sort of series is only as good as its characters, The Ark is a poorly populated enterprise, not to be confused with the Enterprise. Read full review

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The Daily Beast Nick Schager

Feb 1, 2023

Season 1 Review: It doesn’t help that the show’s cast is equally drab, their performances corny, broad, and altogether unconvincing. ... What’s missing is compelling action, serviceable CGI, and a sense of this all taking place within a grander context. ... There’s nothing under the hood of The Ark except a lot of ho-hum parts borrowed from better voyage-into-the-beyond sagas. Read full review

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DJCoin

Mar 30, 2023

Throwback to 90's spaceship sci-fi, it's a fun show with plot twists galore that improves considerably as the season progresses!

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Duhddy

Feb 2, 2023

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Unfortunately the ark seems to be another one of those space shows/movies where things go wrong on the ship and the people just argue over what to do and chaos ensues because people are selfish. I hope this isn't the case and something else enters the picture to keep the viewers interested besides a soap opera between people inside a ship in space. Like why would the viewers care about anyone in the crew or if they die? when we didn't even get any background information on them? I hope the next few episodes isn't going to be a slow burn of character build ups and their life back on earth just to drag out the show because that would be so boring.… Expand

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CaspianRoach

May 7, 2023

Extremely poor on multiple fronts. Atrocious science, almost not a single aspect of any degree of technology on this show makes any sense, laws of physics are routinely broken without explanation and supposedly top tier equipment is all extremely shoddy, insanely poorly planned and failsExtremely poor on multiple fronts. Atrocious science, almost not a single aspect of any degree of technology on this show makes any sense, laws of physics are routinely broken without explanation and supposedly top tier equipment is all extremely shoddy, insanely poorly planned and fails constantly in truly bizzare ways.

The characters all act extremely dumb, for a supposedly hand-picked "best of the best" collection of people, most of them would never pass an actual psych test, they immediately break down at the slightest hardship and act like literal children. Almost none of them have any concept of school-level of science and engineering and make absurdly idiotic decisions all the time.

The actions of the bad forces of the season are baffling to say the least, bordering on cartoonishly evil. I kept watching hoping to see the "so this is why we did it", but nope, they just did evil things because they're evil. Awful.

I feel like the writers didn't bother checking ANY of the science that they wrote with a single knowledgeable person and ended up just reskinning what amounts to a teenage drama show into an extremely fake space environment.

The only positive thing in all this mess is the big overarching story and the setting. They wrote a really interesting overview but failed miserably at filling in the details. I hatewatched it till the end of the season because I was really curious about the setting. Would not recommend doing that to anyone else.… Expand

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StevetheGooner

Jun 18, 2023

Oh dear, let's nit Bevin any doubt, this us a poor show, very bad acting (especially the so called Scottish fella) but fir some reason J stayed until the end! The SFX were disappointing and were bettered bt the original Star Trek, see where I'm going with this!

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foxpoet71

Feb 2, 2023

Absolutely terrible. Inaccurate science, cookie-cutter characterization, bad production design, contrived conflict, clunky dialog, extremely broad acting. I never realized it was possible to have so many cringe-worthy moments in an hour of television.

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MatuX

Mar 2, 2023

Why do they do this to us? Have we, human beings, done anything to SyFy or Peacock to make them so mad at us that they feel the need to make such content? I wouldn't wish this upon my worst enemy. Please, avoid at all costs, you're going to want to gouge out your eyes and jump out a window.

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JoeSparkx

Mar 24, 2023

I have seen some bad Sci-Fi in my time and this ranks up there among the worst. It is cheesy and corny - not in a good way. Every single character is poorly written, shallow and frankly overly dramatic. Everything seems forced. There is a very diverse character set which has been made intoI have seen some bad Sci-Fi in my time and this ranks up there among the worst. It is cheesy and corny - not in a good way. Every single character is poorly written, shallow and frankly overly dramatic. Everything seems forced. There is a very diverse character set which has been made into little more than caricatures to virtue signal. In a word, Cringe.

Picture a ship full of Wesley Crushers, now add lack of impulse control (hormonal teen level of poor impulse control), soap opera levels of drama and the worst kind of Pseudoscience you can imagine (making Star Trek look mild by comparison) and you're about halfway there.… Expand

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Seasons & Episodes

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Series Overview
Season 2

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- Season 2 Overview
  Air Date: July 17, 2024
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  S2:E12. Fortunate
  Air Date: October 2, 2024
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  S2:E11. It Will Be Over Soon
  Air Date: September 25, 2024
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  S2:E10. It Should Have Been You
  Air Date: September 18, 2024
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  S2:E9. Cycle Of Violence
  Air Date: September 11, 2024
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  S2:E8. We Don't Kill Our Own
  Air Date: September 4, 2024
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  S2:E7. It Can't Be True
  Air Date: August 28, 2024
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  S2:E6. Pretty Big Deal
  Air Date: August 21, 2024
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  S2:E5. Museum Of Death
  Air Date: August 14, 2024
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  S2:E4. The Other You
  Air Date: August 7, 2024
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  S2:E3. Anomaly
  Air Date: July 30, 2024
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  S2:E2. Kill Or Be Killed
  Air Date: July 23, 2024
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  S2:E1. Failed Experiment
  Air Date: July 17, 2024
Season 1

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- Season 1 Overview
  Air Date: February 1, 2023