- Network: SyFy
- Series Premiere Date: Dec 5, 2005
Critic Reviews
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Familiar, formulaic fun, but one night too long. [9 Dec 2005, p.81]
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Triangle boasts an attractive cast and some clever twists, but it often has to stretch to fill time.
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The narrative seems unduly baggy and stretched out, nothing so sharply defined as a triangle. More like a rhomboid. [12 Dec 2005, p.39]
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Amusingly, head-spinningly over-the-top.
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Somewhere within this bloated six-hour miniseries there's a lean, mean four-hour miniseries trying to escape.
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The plot knots are Gordian, but the writer, Rockne S. O'Bannon, successfully picks them apart. What suffers is the dialogue, which often strains to explain all the science in offhand conversation.
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A solid cast and marquee auspices make this effects-heavy exercise watchable enough even when "The Triangle" grows obtuse.
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An entertaining mishmash that uneasily juggles jargony sci-fi theories with elements of military conspiracy, action-adventure, disaster movie and surreal psychological suspense.
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That the story... snakes around a lot, tossing supernatural red herrings in its wake, keeps it oddly compelling, even as it grows increasingly preposterous, not only as regards the supernatural but as to how people really act.
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The miniseries is an ordinary but not awful piece of science fiction, one you won't hate watching and yet one you shouldn't hate missing.
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Creepily watchable almost in spite of itself through at least the first two nights, the miniseries embodies a veritable symphony of implausibility.
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Around 11 p.m. on Wednesday, you'll be asking yourself what the hell happened.
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The questions posed by "The Triangle" are fascinating. But the answers are - sometimes literally - a waste of time.
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More or less a soggy misfire.
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An abysmally dumb plot peopled with some of the most irritating characters in the history of television.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 14 out of 17
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Mixed: 2 out of 17
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Negative: 1 out of 17
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JonasKApr 11, 2006Really great effects. Fun!
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ChrisTDec 14, 2005The punchline is not up to supporting the five hours it takes to get to it.
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ScottLDec 12, 2005