• Network: AMC
  • Series Premiere Date: Aug 1, 2010
  • Season #: 1
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Metascore

Generally favorable reviews - based on 28 Critics What's this?

User Score

Universal acclaim- based on 115 Ratings

  • Summary: Will Travers (James Badge Dale), an analyst for API, a New York intelligence agency, soon discovers there is more to the company he works for than meets the eye.
  • Genre(s): Drama, Suspense
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 18 out of 28
  2. Negative: 1 out of 28
  1. 100
    It looks like AMC is three-for-three with their newest original drama, Rubicon, a throwback espionage thriller that takes place in the present--if the present were more like the 1970s than the 2000s.
  2. If you enjoy following complex machinations, however, and enjoy watching smart TV characters try to figure them out, Rubicon is your ticket.
  3. It's harder to tell from this preview whether the atmospherics add up to a solid and complex mystery. The pilot isn't groundbreaking, but it is promising enough to justify waiting for the full two-hour premiere on Aug. 1.
  4. 30
    Turgid and plodding, Rubicon has the pace of an industrial-training film and the lucidity of a Czech art movie with the subtitles turned off. It would have to triple its pulse to rise to the level of lethargy.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 45 out of 53
  2. Negative: 4 out of 53
  1. This new series started out slow but only because they invested more in character development and subtle nuance in plot development. The Protagonist is a perfect fit in terms of casting and the plot line was a slow building crescendo well worth the investment I put in paying huge entertainment dividends by seasons end. Like most of the finer things in life it takes a bit of time to let something gather its taste, vintage or what have you, Rubicon is a prime example of this school of thought or philosophy. Bar none this is the best series I've seen on AMC and I'm pleasantly surprised and have been won over by it. If you need car chases, bullets flying and T& A on a minutely basis this isn't the series for you go have fun with fast and furious etc...but if your willing to use make use of a brain cell or two this is the show for you. Expand
  2. I really enjoy Rubicon. It moves much slower than the new ADD shows and the Shock and Awe approach, but I like the thinking, writing and story. The intrigue alone has me wanting more. AMC has done a wonderful job at picking shows with characters, story and imagination. Expand
  3. How glorious. A drama/thriller where neither is a building blown up nor a corpse eviscerated. Why has it taken so long to realize how satisfying were the puzzlers "Three Days of the Condor" and "The Parallax View?" And to give them back as episode TV? Expand
  4. 4
    I tried to get into this and let the whole season sit on my DVR for months, but this show is simply too slow-paced. Nothing happens and everything is vague, but there are some great actors involved. Sorry, AMC, I really did want to like this. Expand

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