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- MTV
- Jul 8, 2014
- MTV
- Jul 8, 2014
Summary High schooler Carter (Kathryn Prescott) discovers she was abducted as a child and the woman (Milena Govich) who raised her, was her kidnapper. She is reunited with her biological parents (Cynthia Watros and Alexis Denisof), a twin sister (Anna Jacoby-Heron), and a little brother (Zac Pullam) she never knew she had.
Created By: Emily Silver
- MTV
- Jul 8, 2014
- MTV
- Jul 8, 2014
Summary High schooler Carter (Kathryn Prescott) discovers she was abducted as a child and the woman (Milena Govich) who raised her, was her kidnapper. She is reunited with her biological parents (Cynthia Watros and Alexis Denisof), a twin sister (Anna Jacoby-Heron), and a little brother (Zac Pullam) she never knew she had.
Created By: Emily Silver
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Generally Favorable
Based on 9 Critic Reviews
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 9 Critic Reviews
71
78% Positive
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
22% Mixed
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
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There are some predictable relationship issues that are introduced between a few characters that are more than a little groan-worthy in how cliche they are.
Those few issues aside, Finding Carter hits the ground running with an extremely compelling pilot.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 43 User Ratings
7.4
79% Positive
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7% Mixed
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14% Negative
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User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 43 User Ratings
7.4
79% Positive
34 Ratings
34 Ratings
7% Mixed
3 Ratings
3 Ratings
14% Negative
6 Ratings
6 Ratings
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SEASON 1
You may not be able to relate to the mind-bending premise, but the on-point writing and performances make this a worthwhile drama for the whole family.
The Finding Carter pilot proves there’s plenty of material to work with for a soapy drama.
The pilot's intriguing and the twentysomething Prescott's a believable enough TV teen (and a twin in real life). It's too soon to say if Finding Carter is the show girls raised on "Gilmore" have been waiting for, but it represents an encouraging departure for the "Teen Mom" network.
Much like the shows on ABC Family, Finding Carter has a muted palette, and is full of double crosses, shifting sympathies and warring dualities.... Carter has friends, but they’re mostly “Breakfast Club” archetypes. The one exception is Ofe (Jesse Carere), the rare sui generis sidekick on a teen show.
Finding Carter isn’t bad, necessarily, but nor does anything about it really cry out to be found.
The show is just so incredibly average. The star seems so smug and happy with herself that she's annoying to watch from week to week. The mom character, the police officer, is equally as annoying. And she seems like she's been through a lot with the bags under her eyes and just the way she comes off every episode. The fact that she's cheating on her husband makes her all the more annoying. This must be tailor-made for a very young demographic because I just can't relate.
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SEASON 1
The show starts with an interesting premise.
A girl named Carter finds out that her mother isn't her real mother but the woman
who abducted her from her family.
Carter struggles with the fact that she still loves that 'mother'
and doesn't get along with her biological mother where Carter lives
now with the entire family, her abductor-mother on the run.
Sure, it's interesting and that's the reason I kept tuning in.
But a couple of episodes into the show I realised that that's not really what the show is about.
The reason why I want to see the show, the relationship to her abductor,
is merely the B-storyline and you get only a spoonful of that each episode, at most.
The main storylines are for instance:
One of Carters new 'friends' releases a painting in school of Carters face, one side half rotten,
with out asking Carter first. Heavy stuff!
Another example:
She meets some guy and the others ('friends') tell her that he's a drug dealer.
What does one do? Invite him over to your house when the parents are home. Of course!
And then watch him show Carters little brother how to roll a joint while the parents are there.
That's not enough, because Carter has to end up with that guy in a car that turns out to be stolen.
OMG, storytelling gold!
Maybe, if I found any of the characters more likable, I wouldn't have found the show that disappointing,
but I just don't care about those people.
My main problem is with the character of Carter:
She's too passive. You get the impression that she didn't have a life before she 'changed families'.
What does she like, what are her hobbies, who are her old friends, and I mean except for that slacker dude.
She just hangs around with people who are into weed and things seem to just happen to her.
I call that lack of personality.
By now you must have realized, that I'm simply too old for this show, but I ask you: 'Who isn't?'.
I can't imagine anyone 18+ to be interested in this stuff.
If that's intended, then ok, fine. But is that demographic big enough for that kind of show?
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SEASON 1
I found the subject interesting, however, I found a lot of things unrealistic. I get that Carter is attached to her kidnapper-mom and not quite feeling the warm fuzzies with her biological mom, but a lot of stuff was over the top, and there were ZERO consequences for ANYTHING.
These "kids" are left to their own devices and take drugs/drink a LOT as though ALL kids do it with the same frequency. I'm not so out of touch to think that kids don't do that, but it seems fairly obvious that the "good" sister was an anomaly and ended up drinking under pressure to measure up to her new sister. THAT was realistic, but where the hell are all the parents? And there are no consequences - parties don't get busted by the cops, overdoses are glossed over (what, are they so common that it's just no big deal?). And the scene in the food court of the mall was just cruel, and the police did NOTHING, despite having every reason to haul those people in for impeding an investigation.
About the only thing I really liked about the show was that it's clear that no one is perfect. Everyone has flaws. I just find the glorification of drug and alcohol use and complete lack of consequences of things really disturbing and sad.
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SEASON 1
The show has a great premise, but completely ignores it for plotlines which make your average soap opera look reasonable.
Instead of focusing on what it would actually be like to find out your were kidnapped... we episode after episode of outlandish plot twists -- her mom is having an affair, her dad is lying about writing a book, she immediately have a new school and partying friends, she ODs, her mom (using her police position) forces her ex-boyfriend to stay at the house, her sister falls for her ex-boyfriend, she makes contact with her kidnapper mom in the most outlandish way, she dates an ex-con, she runs away with him, he shoots her ex-boyfriend, etc. Then there is this goofy plot running where it is obvious her kidnapper mom had some type of relationship with the family, yet no one is saying -- even the kidnapper mom won't just explain it to her daughter after multiple meetings.
By the forth episode... it was clear that there is no logic to any of the characters. I couldn't care less about any of them because I couldn't believe any of this. Instead of a solid drama based on an interesting premise... we get a bunch of random, negative, events which make you wonder why someone hasn't called Children's Services or moved in with their grand parents in an attempt to have a sane life for a week -- and not have to watch your family train wreaking and then continuing the next week as if nothing happened.
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