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Critic Reviews
Jun 12, 2017
Season 4 Review:
Handsomely constructed as always, the fourth and final season is cleaved between insurgent American spy Abe and traitor Benedict Arnold. [16 Jun 2017, p.53]
Apr 18, 2016
Season 3 Review:
After a couple years of slow farm-to-cheese-table maneuvering, the Revolutionary War drama's season three premiere gets heads to roll, literally. [22/29 Apr 2016, p.104]
Apr 13, 2015
Season 2 Review:
[While the] two-hour premiere suffers from the tempo flaw that marred the show, the pace does quicken with the introduction of the American Judas, Benedict Arnold. [17/24 Apr 2015, p.104]
Apr 4, 2014
Season 1 Review:
Bell is key, so plainly direct and unstudied that we see the past through his eyes. [14 Apr 2014, p.50]
Apr 4, 2014
Season 1 Review:
Once the ring gets going and the espionage kicks in, the story becomes clear and exciting. The battle scenes are disturbingly vivid, and most of the characters are interesting right off the bat.... But the premiere episode assumes that viewers are so familiar with the period and this more obscure chapter of history that the main characters’ allegiances, motives, and struggles will be clear from the outset. They are not.
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Apr 4, 2014
Season 1 Review:
Despite some stiffness (and a whole lot of words crammed into the characters’ mouths, hastily delivered in an array of accents) Turn succeeds in making the War of Independence seem like a vital and fresh saga.... But the show struggles to lay out its characters and conflicts in a way that feels instantly addictive.
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Apr 3, 2014
Season 1 Review:
In choosing to center its story of Revolutionary War-era spies on relationships (particularly between Abraham and Anna and Abraham and his father), it has a fighting chance at finding its way to something compelling. The problem is that the show has yet to figure out a way to make those relationships fresh or interesting in the slightest.
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Apr 10, 2015
Season 2 Review:
There are some nice elements, such as the infatuation of British officer Maj. Hewlett (Burn Gorman) with Anna (Heather Lind), who is working with Woodhull as part of the spy ring. There’s also the return of the venomous Simcoe (Samuel Roukin), so evil that he practically hisses out his dialogue. The pieces, however, never quite add up to anything with enough cohesion or narrative flow.
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