- Network: Sundance Channel , Sundance TV
- Series Premiere Date: Feb 27, 2014
Season #: 2, 1
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Critic Reviews
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The exceptionally well-cast The Red Road starts well, but slips in the second episode.
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You don't have to have lived through Watergate to know that it's the cover-up that gets you, but there's much more happening in The Red Road, maybe too much to be contained in a six-hour first season, and some of it more interesting than what's going on between these two men.
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While certainly not bad, the series would be better if it came with fewer built-in speed bumps, and a little more narrative momentum.
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Instead of thinking so much about complicated moral themes and Shakespearean redos, the show's creator and writers would have been better off trying to make the story credible and the characters three-dimensional and realistic.
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The first three episodes are all hints and shadows and squandered time, while the show’s most intriguing context and premise--life in a forgotten and neglected tribe--gets lost in all the meandering.
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At least the Sopranos knew how to have fun.... Mr. Momoa and Mr. Henderson acquit themselves well without generating any heat or much of any feeling. The best work is by Julianne Nicholson as Harold’s damaged wife and Zahn McClarnon as a foot soldier in Phillip’s drug operation.
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It’s exciting to watch Momoa and Henderson give riveting performances, so it’s not like there’s nothing to recommend here. It’s just that in watching them do it, you wish the story was giving them more fodder and not bogging itself down in side arcs.
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With the other Sundance series, very little may be happening in any given stretch, and yet they're so overflowing with emotion that it feels like everything is happening. Here, there are actual significant events (multiple robberies, a hit-and-run, various beatings) quite often, and yet it feels like nothing's happening.
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The backwoods intrigue and the grave mood are achieved not through grounding details and eccentricity, but by portent. Some scenes are such slow, ambiguous dialogues that they recall the heyday of Audrina and Justin Bobby.
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As a six-episode project, you’d expect precision, compactness and speed; instead it basically, at least for the first four episodes, wanders toward the inevitable.
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A lugubrious six-episode drama that's as overwrought as it is underwhelming.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 38 out of 40
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Mixed: 2 out of 40
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Negative: 0 out of 40
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Apr 11, 2014
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Jan 22, 2019Excellent buildup of story but you left us hanging with no season 3!!! How could you do that??? BRING IT BACK.
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May 16, 2015