The Hot Zone: Anthrax
National Geographic | Release Date: November 28, 2021
CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
56
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 6 Critic Reviews
Positive:
1
Mixed:
5
Negative:
0

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
83
Paste MagazineKatherine SmithNov 24, 2021
Season 1 Review: The Hot Zone: Anthrax is easy to inhale. It’s nothing that will revolutionize its medium or push its genre forward, but revisiting this history places the present in relief. Read full review
58
The A.V. ClubSaloni GajjarNov 24, 2021
Season 1 Review: The show is effective as a ripped-from-the-headlines re-creation of the Anthrax case, especially for viewers who don’t know much about it, but it has little to offer beyond that. Read full review
55
Pittsburgh Tribune-ReviewRob OwenNov 29, 2021
Season 1 Review: It is meat-and-potatoes storytelling served as a tiny portion on an oversized platter. As in real life, the story peters out with an unsatisfying conclusion. Read full review
50
TV Guide MagazineMatt RoushNov 22, 2021
Season 1 Review: Anthrax only truly comes alive when the focus turns to a more colorful microbiologist, Dr. Bruce Ivins (manic Tony Goldwyn). ... More effective as a late-blooming psychological thriller than as a routine whodunit. [22 Nov - 5 Dec 2021, p.8]
42
IndieWireKristen LopezNov 23, 2021
Season 1 Review: “The Hot Zone: Anthrax” is a formulaic look back at the anthrax scare with little profound or specific to say. Tony Goldwyn gives a flamboyant lesson in fear, but everything else is too much of a slog to get into. Read full review
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The Hollywood ReporterDaniel FienbergNov 29, 2021
Season 1 Review: These six episodes are barely informative and only marginally scary. Read full review
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