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Lights Out: Season 1
  • Network: FX
  • Series Premiere Date: Jan 11, 2011
  • Season #: 1
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Metascore
79 out of 100

Generally favorable reviews - based on 25 Critics What's this?

User Score
8.1 out of 10

Universal acclaim- based on 34 Ratings

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10 out of 10
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  • Summary: An FX drama project sees a former boxing champion struggling with the beginning of dementia take a job as a collector. The project is penned by feature film writer of The Bucket List Justin Zackham.
  • Genre(s): Action/Adventure, Drama

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 22 out of 25
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 25
  3. Negative: 0 out of 25
  1. People Weekly
    Reviewed by: Tom Gliatto
    Jan 24, 2011
    100
    Beneath the grit, this is a tale of chivalry. [31 Jan 2011, p.40]
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  2. Newsday
    Reviewed by: Verne Gay
    Jan 10, 2011
    91
    A particularly fine new FX drama marred only by a tepid pace in the pilot. But pace and story pick up in subsequent episodes.
  3. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Hank Stuever
    Jan 11, 2011
    60
    Though deliberately and even artfully paced, Lights Out also feels protracted. It has difficulty establishing momentum in its first few episodes, even with a smattering of intriguing subplots and story lines, and no one character exerts that intangible ability to make us keep watching.

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User Reviews

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 11 out of 12
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 12
  3. Negative: 1 out of 12
  1. joegernaut
    10
    I love this show . it's way better then a lot of the stuff FX shows or has shown. I think this show is right up their with Sons of anarchy ,and the shield .… Expand
    • 2 of 2 users said yes
  2. mt2e
    10
    Being a avid boxing fan this show has it all. Very witty with a lot of insight to the boxing world. Very true to a real experience of a boxer and everything around him. One of my favorite shows of all time. Teddy Atlas is an advisor to the show and that says a lot.… Expand
    • 1 of 1 users said yes
  3. AlejandroAguas
    0
    I cannot believe that people that claim to be boxing fans actually like this show. Its fight scenes are crap. The lead is completely unconvincing as a boxer; he looks like a pudgy old man, and cannot throw a convincing punch. As a drama, it's middling and clichéd.… Expand
    • 0 of 2 users said yes

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