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Critic Reviews
Aug 24, 2018
Season 1 Review:
It can be a little on the nose at times, and a few of the situations Harry and June get themselves into feel like distracting side stories--but it does offer up a unique blend of genres and influences. It’s John Green meets a more modern version of Jack Williamson’s Darker Than You Think, and for the majority of its first season it’s a compelling, moving contemplation of what it means to reckon with who you are.
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Aug 24, 2018
Season 1 Review:
When the action takes us to Norway, where pearlescent clouds conjure the sullenness of Scandinavian noir, The Innocents tends to grow maddeningly stagnant, as if the show had built in longueurs for the convenience of viewers itching to divert their attention to other screens. In England, where Harry and June find time for soul-searching chats on casual strolls while fleeing both Steinar and their parents, its easy tempo feels more purposeful.
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Aug 22, 2018
Season 1 Review:
The pacing is sometimes teasingly effective and sometimes just infuriatingly slow, but I respect its gateway oddness, like The Innocents is preparing a Netflix juvenile demographic for the more substantive, patience-intensive oddness of something like a Sens8 down the road.
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Aug 22, 2018
Season 1 Review:
At its core, this is a show sweetly more concerned with reaffirming the power lovers draw from one another than watching the world tear them apart in dramatic fashion. And even if what plot surrounds it is ultimately too shapeless to make you crave the too-eagerly teed-up second season, that’s an aim too refreshingly earnest not to embrace.
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Aug 24, 2018
Season 1 Review:
It’s the kind of show where every element feels directly lifted from another Netflix hit and mashed up into a slightly awkward creation. ... The series is loaded with strong performers, and Groundsell and Ascott are plausibly charming and naive as the innocents of the show’s title.
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RogerEbert.comAug 22, 2018
Season 1 Review:
Like so much YA fiction, everything here is over-directed and over-written, allowing no room for the teen audience to interpret any deeper meaning. ... And it’s a particular shame that this is so frustrating because the young leads are charming and have solid chemistry. It’s the construction of everything around them--including a flat performance from the typically-solid Pearce--that lets them down.
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