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  • 2009
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  • 2009
  • TV-14
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FlashForward

Summary Dubbed ABC's companion series to Lost, FlashForward is based on Robert J. Sawyer's sci-fi novel of the same name. The plot centers around an eerie, chaotic vision of the future after a mysterious event makes everyone on Earth lose consciousness. Later, as people start waking up, the world starts changing because people know their future....

Created By: Brannon Braga

  • 2009
  • TV-14
  • ABC
  • 2009
  • TV-14
  • ABC

FlashForward

Season 1 Premiere: Sep 24, 2009
Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 26 Critic Reviews
71
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 64 User Ratings
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Summary Dubbed ABC's companion series to Lost, FlashForward is based on Robert J. Sawyer's sci-fi novel of the same name. The plot centers around an eerie, chaotic vision of the future after a mysterious event makes everyone on Earth lose consciousness. Later, as people start waking up, the world starts changing because people know their future....

Created By: Brannon Braga

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 26 Critic Reviews
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Generally Favorable Based on 26 Critic Reviews
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73% Positive
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27% Mixed
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100
If you like big-screen-level thrills and complicated plot structures, you'll opt-in to FlashForward. And you'll be rewarded. Here's hoping it stays strong and compelling as it heads to April 29.
By Tim Goodman FULL REVIEW
83
The show combines sci-fi-ish conspiracy suspense with excellent prime-time-soap drama. And I like the fact that, post-blackout, people don't Google each other; they say, ''I Mosaic'd you.'' A good sense of humor humanizes this grand puzzl
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80
It's smart, richly textured, complex and filled with suspense and intellectual challenge--in short, it has all the things network television is supposed to have abandoned in favor of cheap reality shows.
By David Zurawik FULL REVIEW
75
Whether ABC's new series, FlashForward, will catch on is anyone's guess. I can tell you, though, that it has a compelling concept and a solid cast.
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70
With such a knockout concept at its core, Flash Forward may still be on our minds six months from now--that is, if we're not too busy piecing together global mysteries or cheating on our husbands to notice.
By Heather Havrilesky FULL REVIEW
50
Like many of ABC's post-Lost attempts at serials, this one has a great premise with tremendous potential, but I wish more attention had been paid to fleshing out the characters and generally bringing a fresher voice to the dialogue.
By James Poniewozik FULL REVIEW
40
The pilot for FlashForward, by contrast [to "Lost"], feels more like deja vu, with characters who could've been rounded up from a disaster miniseries, tied to a mystery that's only compelling if we care what happens to these people.
By Ellen Gray FULL REVIEW

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Generally Favorable Based on 64 User Ratings
7.8
83% Positive
53 Ratings
13% Mixed
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5% Negative
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Generally Favorable Based on 64 User Ratings
7.8
83% Positive
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13% Mixed
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5% Negative
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Production Company:
  • HBO Entertainment
  • ABC Signature
  • Phantom Four Films
Initial Release Date: Sep 24, 2009
Number of seasons: 2 Seasons
Rating: TV-14
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Awards

Primetime Emmy Awards
• 1 Win & 3 Nominations
Visual Effects Society Awards
• 2 Nominations
American Society of Cinematographers, USA
• 1 Nomination

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