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If you’re willing to suspend enough disbelief to enjoy Zoo, you will definitely think twice before ever again saying, “Here, kitty, kitty.”
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Zoo is expertly made and fits the current fascination with dystopian what-if scenarios, but it’s basic.
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The first episode gets us in the mood for the TV equivalent of a beach read adventure..... [James Wolk] easily rises to the task, making Jackson charming, sympathetic, and capable. Though Zoo may turn out to be more silly than sensational, Wolk is always delightful TV company.
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Zoo very much spares the gore in its less than scintillating but better than lackluster opening hour.
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While the pilot script excels in efficient plot building, it lags in dialogue and character development.
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Zoo keeps things moving quickly enough to glide past its more portentous moments.
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Sure, it's summer and the viewing is easy--and Zoo is about as easy as it gets. There is some fun here, or potentially some fun.
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Locked up in cliches, tedium and barely believable bipeds. ... As far as extinction events go, Zoo is lame and tame.
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There's nothing particularly special about Zoo, but were we back in the days when books like this became self-contained miniseries, it would be easy enough to recommend as a non-taxing summer potboiler.
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Its premise simply isn’t interesting enough to sustain the intrigue over the course of a television season.
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A laughably over-serious pilot episode makes it difficult to take Zoo on its own terms.
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There's potential here, especially if it's not burdened with biological mumbo jumbo that makes little sense in explaining why these animals are going ape on humans. But even that potential is only that of a Patterson novel: cheap, easy to digest, and you don't have to think all that much about it.
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It’s a snooze. And it’s disappointingly dull filmically given that Brad Anderson directed the pilot. Like Wolk and Connolly, Anderson deserved a better script. You do too.
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Zoo might build toward something more satisfying, but based on the premiere, there’s not particularly strong incentive to take the bait.
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It's all so groaningly obvious and B-movie earnest you'd almost welcome a Sharknado attack. [29 Jun - 12 Jul 2015, p.12]
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Zoo could have been silly, over-the-top fun, but instead it’s plodding and monotonous.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 49 out of 98
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Mixed: 21 out of 98
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Negative: 28 out of 98
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Apr 14, 2016
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Nov 5, 2015
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Oct 28, 2015