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- ABC
- Sep 22, 2014
- ABC
- Sep 22, 2014
- ABC
- Sep 22, 2014
- ABC
- Sep 22, 2014
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 24 Critic Reviews
54
25% Positive
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
67% Mixed
16 Reviews
16 Reviews
8% Negative
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 24 Critic Reviews
54
25% Positive
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
67% Mixed
16 Reviews
16 Reviews
8% Negative
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
They need to put a bit more thought into the mysteries themselves, which lean toward the clunky. But the appeal of the stars and the premise should buy them some time.
Gruffudd's characterization is a bit uneven; sometimes he's gruff and aloof and still pining over the loss of his World War II-era love, yet he's able to turn on the charm when he wants to.
User Score
Universal Acclaim
Based on 295 User Ratings
8.3
86% Positive
253 Ratings
253 Ratings
4% Mixed
12 Ratings
12 Ratings
10% Negative
30 Ratings
30 Ratings
User Score
Universal Acclaim
Based on 295 User Ratings
8.3
86% Positive
253 Ratings
253 Ratings
4% Mixed
12 Ratings
12 Ratings
10% Negative
30 Ratings
30 Ratings
è una serie bellissima. Certo che non la capisco proprio la gente. Gli piace vedere una serie come supergirl che è fatta malissimo, ma una serie che è così ben congeniata viene bocciata (almeno per quanto riguarda la critica di metacritic e per molti blog americani). Devo ancora vedere l'ultimo episodio, ma spero che la continueranno se l'hanno predisposta a finire così
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SEASON 1
One of the very best shows on television, inexplicably canceled after one season. Great plots, great acting, great concept, and Judd Hirsch, what more could you ask for? Ioan Gruffudd, who plays Henry Morgan, a kind of gentle Cary Grant, does autopsies on bodies after murders and assists a female detective in her investigations. The inevitable romantic aspect was handled with extreme subtlety and barely advanced at all; in fact everything about the show was handled with a subtlety and care that is extremely rare in TV series.
Oh and there's one thing: Henry was born in the 1700s but stopped aging at age 35 after he was tossed off a slave ship when he came to the aid of a slave (I think it was a slave ship, not sure). Now, whenever Henry is killed he disappears and finds himself reborn (at the same age, 35) naked in the East River. He has a record as long as your arm for indecent exposure apparently, but this hasn't hurt his career with the NYPD. His son, Judd Hirsch, works in an antique shop in Greenwich Village (I think) where he sells all the things his dad has accrued over the years but no longer uses. The show indulges in flashbacks to former lives of Henry through the decades and centuries, showing scenes that have a bearing or are analogous in some way to the events of the ongoing action in the present day.
A wonderful show, and a truly bizarre cancellation.
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SEASON 1
Forever is not a bad show--the pilot is pretty well made for what it is--but aspects of the premise feel awfully familiar.
Forever is an easy hour because Gruffudd (Horatio Hornblower) is a fine, quite likeable actor, and the mystery-of-the-week procedural continues to be candy for views.
Monday’s premiere has to work hard to get you to suspend disbelief, but the actual crimes, in both the Monday and Tuesday episodes, are well plotted. Gruffudd’s Morgan isn’t quite as much of a social misfit as Jonny Lee Miller’s Holmes on CBS, but he’s a good actor and pairs well with both de la Garza and Judd Hirsch.
Depends on how willing you are to suspend your disbelief that a man who's immortal couldn't find something else to do with his endless time than hanging around a morgue.
Forever comes off like a show a couple of drunks scribbled out on a cocktail napkin.
At first, Forever was better than I expected. They actually did something interesting with the immortality - he experiences the victims deaths himself to learn more about them. The wake up naked in the river thing is pretty stupid but whatever. He also uses his 250 years of life experience to do the whole Sherlock thing. It also starts an interesting season arc with an immortal enemy. The problem is that after a few episodes it does become the completely generic, yet another cop show I originally expected. You could just pick the good episodes and skip the boring generic ones like Castle but looking at the ratings all signs point to cancellation anyway.
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SEASON 1
"Forever" summed up in one word: Boring. Yes, it really is. It is un-challenging. It feels like it's made for people who don't want to think much, since it tells the viewer everything. Like the co-writer of this series was Captain Obvious himself. Most of the cases and events are predictable. The more and more you watch, the worse it gets. The plot line doesn't follow a red line. You just have that one mysterious character, who fails to get a real attention.
It is just a very bad attempt to "americanize" good intelligent series like Sherlock, while failing everything that makes a good challenging series
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SEASON 1
I like detective/cop shows. I don't like Forever.
First, the supporting characters are almost irrelevant to the plot. That gets better as the show goes on, but it's a bit too late.
Second, we are treated to a series of flashbacks and are expected to care about character we never meet, instead of developing the characters the story actually has in the present.
Third, related to the second one. We have a big "antagonist" in the background, but he is barely related to anything that's happening.
The cases are fine. Maybe too mundane for an immortal character, but they are not bad.
Bottom line, it would have been great if it was about everything the main character lived (that we see in flashbacks). But as a cop/detective show, can't recommend.
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SEASON 1
what a waste of almost one hour. Boring. Will probably not watch again. Yawn. Nothing original about the plot, and not **** lives for 200 plus years?
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