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Positive:
7
Mixed:
10
Negative:
3
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Critic Reviews
Nov 20, 2019
Season 1 Review:
The Others isn't an across-the-board success like The Sixth Sense. But it has its moments. And once you get past the sluggishness of the first episode, it's not half bad. [4 Feb 2000. p.1E]
Nov 20, 2019
Season 1 Review:
Billingsley brings a gentleness to the role, making the character believable, decent and a surrogate for the audience. He watches The Others with amazement, and so will viewers. [4 Feb 2000]
Nov 20, 2019
Season 1 Review:
The Others makes glaciers look fast. [5 Feb 2000]
Nov 20, 2019
Nov 20, 2019
Season 1 Review:
To maintain any momentum, however, they're going to have to come up with something more than a ''dead guy of the week beckons from the other side'' premise. There's not much the Others are fighting against at this point, except short-lived skepticism on behalf of the bereaved. [5 Feb 2000, p.L3]
Nov 20, 2019
Season 1 Review:
While tonight's pilot episode is uneven, it does provide the building blocks for a solid foundation. There is promise here, and there is the potential for quick disintegration. Which way will it go? How do I know? What do you think I am? Psychic? [5 Feb 2000, p.1E]
Nov 20, 2019
Season 1 Review:
The Others is a show with a promising premise and a very interesting collection of characters. But it is also a show with a tragic dependency on feel-goodism and sentimental resolutions. Horror and schmaltz? They just don't mix well. [5 Feb 2000]
Nov 20, 2019
Season 1 Review:
It hasn't jelled yet as drama, judging from the two episodes made available for advance screening. Its basic elements feel out of synch. [4 Feb 2000]
Nov 20, 2019
Season 1 Review:
SPOOKY stuff happens in The Others. Windows open by themselves, ghosts spring out of walls, eerie sounds wail. Yes, indeed, it's spooky. It's spooky how script writers think this sort of stuff is actually effective after so many years of seeing these cues so many times in so many "horror" movies. [4 Feb 2000]
Nov 20, 2019
Season 1 Review:
Those who get excited by the mere mention of a sixth sense may
get a few tingles out of The Others. But anyone hoping
for something more -- something novel or clever or even spooky
-- should look elsewhere. Even those of us who scare easily are
likely to find this tired ghost story more silly and hokey than
jolting. [4 Feb 2000]
Nov 20, 2019
Season 1 Review:
If NBC hopes to ride the wave generated by the movie The Sixth Sense, it has a way to go to catch it. The Others is a too-predictable curiosity adrift in a sea of aiming-to-scare-you special effects. [4 Feb 2000]
Nov 20, 2019
Season 1 Review:
Take the talking dead people from "The Sixth Sense," some otherworldly visuals from "The Matrix" and the team mutant concept from "The X-Men," and you get The Others, a pastiche of supernatural doublespeak that needs to worry less about aura and more about story and character.
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Nov 20, 2019
Season 1 Review:
You have to wonder if Morgan and Wong learned anything from Chris Carter. With no semblance of an ongoing secondary story line, such as the government conspiracy of "The X-Files, The Others" boils down to a gaggle of flaky mystics who flit about applying their brand of drippy New Age closure. [5 Feb 2000]
Nov 20, 2019
Season 1 Review:
You would do better to go out Saturday night than settle for this sappy supernatural thriller. [5 Feb 2000, p.E1]
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