Trollhunters

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Season 1
  • Network: Netflix
  • Series Premiere Date: Dec 23, 2016
Season #: 3, 2, 1
Metascore
69

Generally favorable reviews - based on 7 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 7
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 7
  3. Negative: 0 out of 7
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  1. Slant Magazine
    Reviewed by: Chuck Bowen
    Dec 20, 2016
    50
    The series goes down easily, with one-liners alternating professionally with well-designed battle scenes, and this obliging impersonality is why it’s ultimately so dull, as zippy, attention-grabbing movement is prized over mood and poetry.

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#86 Best TV Season of 2016
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#80 Most Discussed TV Season of 2016
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#65 Most Shared TV Season of 2016

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User Score
8.4

Universal acclaim- based on 68 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 59 out of 68
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 68
  3. Negative: 5 out of 68
  1. Vektoren
    Dec 29, 2016
    10
    This show is really fascinating. The first episodes are a little bit slow-going while introducing the background. The further episodes areThis show is really fascinating. The first episodes are a little bit slow-going while introducing the background. The further episodes are perfect with the right amount of humor and the right degree of suspense. The animations are very lovely and full packed of details. They are looking customized not generic nor synthetic. Trollhunters, much like e.g. The Simpsons, understood how to gripped children as well as adults. I would love to see more seasons.… Full Review »
  2. W3R3W00F
    Dec 27, 2016
    10
    I pulled my life's first all-nighter for this series.

    It was entirely worth it. .... .... Okay, you found the secret review.    I pulled my life's first all-nighter for this series.

    It was entirely worth it.

    ....

    ....

    Okay, you found the secret review. Here's your Ferrero Rocher or whatever.

    This series is something special. It really is.
    THIS series alone made me USE Netflix.
    It's clean, it's family-ready, and it strikes the ideal balance dark and scary + butterflies and fairies, so to speak, that Disney films often have an excellent command of.

    To draw an comparison between Disney: In Disney's "Zootopia", there was a certain angle to it that I'd been craving in animation for a long time: a greater sense of human depth. Complex backstories and moments with the kind of conversations that typically only play out between real, functioning human beings.

    I think, in some aspects, Trollhunters does this better.
    I believe this is because it has all the time it needs, just from being a series.

    There are characters that are largely one-sided, and for what they're worth, that's good enough. Eli, for instance, is the single greatest character ever conceived, despite being a tertiary character, and he has about as much purpose as an empty water bottle laying beside a recycling bin.

    But there are other characters who begin to unravel much further throughout just 26 episodes, and often sooner than 26. There are moments of awkwardness, but not the kind of "I've never even had an awkward experience in my life so I'll throw what I think constitutes that into this" awkward moments. They feel like things I would blurt out, like "thanks!" where no thanks was due or contextually appropriate, and the embarrassing tension between all parties involved just slowly dissipates, as people try to forget the flubbed time. I've never really seen this kind of wrench thrown into a cartoon before, but there it is in all its awaited glory.

    Despite some unusual pacing through some episodes, as well as false conclusions and sometimes jolted climaxes here and there, all of these elements still come together to form a largely germane series, just with some new left hooks that nonetheless kept me addicted. Not surprisingly, satisfying bonds are formed throughout, as well as predictable ones. But there are some surprising bonds that arise out of unusual situations, and as the creative team rolls with them, these stranger bonds emit the same kind of satisfaction that the more intuitive ones emit. There are still morals-to-the-story per episode, and the run time for each would fit on a Cartoon Network time slot, if ever the need be. But it's just a BETTER animated series than most of what have been coming about, as this is a genuine, quality series from a studio that, let's face it, has played 2nd or 3rd fiddle to Disney for years. I think, had Del Toro not been directing this, this wouldn't be as good as what it is and what it should be. I think this time, Dreamworks has just one-upped Disney for a change.

    It's only a matter of time before this really catches on. Anyway, I need to earn back that sleep.    … Full Review »
  3. JorgeLestre
    Jan 12, 2017
    10
    It's magnificent. A true enjoyment to both children and adults. Del Toro's magic universe continues to deliver the basics of imagination atIt's magnificent. A true enjoyment to both children and adults. Del Toro's magic universe continues to deliver the basics of imagination at its purest form.… Full Review »
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