The Passage

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Season 1
  • Network: FOX
  • Series Premiere Date: Jan 14, 2019
User Score
7.1

Generally favorable reviews- based on 48 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 32 out of 48
  2. Mixed: 9 out of 48
  3. Negative: 7 out of 48
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  1. Elthor
    Jan 16, 2019
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. This show just doesn't work for me.
    Slow paced, with stone faced-actors and unlikable characters doing things I just couldn't care less about.

    Worst of all, if you took out the 'not vampires' from the show, there would be zero change to it. They played no role in the first episode except looking menacing. They are Vampire MacGuffins. They exist outside of the actual plot: a guy with a young girl running from a shady paramilitary organization.
    I assume they'll get loose later, but I won't be waiting around for it.

    Edit: Seriously, how hard is it for a sketchy agency to snatch one child? So difficult as to require risking exposing themselves just to get that one child? It's not like the girl in question had some special powers, skills or genetic make up they needed. So why go to the news outlets and shoot up a police station?
    Stupid stuff.    … Expand
  2. AthanasiosT
    Feb 13, 2019
    1
    The books are a solid 10, while the TV adaptation is a 1. The reasons ? Political correctness and TV writers. The homeless guy became a love story, the villain Babcock became a beautiful blonde lady with sexual appetites, the little girl with the special abilities, became just a simple sweet little girl, etc, etc. One more failed TV adaptation of a great book. If you've read the book, stayThe books are a solid 10, while the TV adaptation is a 1. The reasons ? Political correctness and TV writers. The homeless guy became a love story, the villain Babcock became a beautiful blonde lady with sexual appetites, the little girl with the special abilities, became just a simple sweet little girl, etc, etc. One more failed TV adaptation of a great book. If you've read the book, stay away. If not, I guess you can watch it.… Expand

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Metascore
60

Mixed or average reviews - based on 18 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8 out of 18
  2. Mixed: 10 out of 18
  3. Negative: 0 out of 18
  1. The Guardian
    Reviewed by: Adrian Horton
    Dec 3, 2019
    40
    The Passage is frustratingly mechanical yet, being human, you can’t help but feel at least slightly invested in this threatened world. It induces eye rolls but still, the virus is easily caught.
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  2. TV Guide Magazine
    Reviewed by: Matt Roush
    Jan 17, 2019
    50
    It's a slow road to apocalypse in the absorbing, if derivative, opening chapters of this Stephen King wannabe based on the epic horror trilogy by Justin Cronin. [21 Jan - 3 Feb 2019, p.13]
  3. IndieWire
    Reviewed by: Hanh Nguyen
    Jan 15, 2019
    75
    The Passage may not reach the grandiose and tragic heights of Cronin’s books, but it has the potential to be equally satisfying: It’s pragmatic, aggressive, and most of all, present.
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