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  • SyFy
  • Oct 3, 2008
  • SyFy
  • Oct 3, 2008

Summary Sanctuary, the first broadcast caliber Sci-Fi series developed specifically for the Internet and the first to be filmed entirely on Green Screen, stars Amanda Tapping as Dr. Helen Magnus, one of the first female doctors in the Royal College during Victorian England. Dr. Magnus takes over her fathers' sanctuary for supernatural creatures,...

  • SyFy
  • Oct 3, 2008
  • SyFy
  • Oct 3, 2008
Sanctuary
Season 1
Season Premiere: Oct 3, 2008
Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 7 Critic Reviews
56
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 20 User Ratings
8.0
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Summary Sanctuary, the first broadcast caliber Sci-Fi series developed specifically for the Internet and the first to be filmed entirely on Green Screen, stars Amanda Tapping as Dr. Helen Magnus, one of the first female doctors in the Royal College during Victorian England. Dr. Magnus takes over her fathers' sanctuary for supernatural creatures,...

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Episode 1 • Oct 3, 2008 • 47 m
Sanctuary for All: Part 1
Episode 2 • Oct 3, 2008 • 46 m
Sanctuary for All: Part 2
While Will continues to work with Alexei, Dr. Magnus has a visitor from her past with a terrible secret.
Episode 3 • Oct 10, 2008 • 45 m
Fata Morgana
When Dr. Magnus, Will and Ashley rescue three entombed women Will struggles to accept that the women are suffering from anything more than a group delusion, Dr. Magnus suspects that the women are much more than they appear.
Episode 4 • Oct 17, 2008 • 45 m
Folding Man
After thieves make a dramatic escape that baffles police Dr. Magnus suspects an abnormal's involvement. The robbery reminds Will of an old FBI case he could not solve; but this time he will.
Episode 5 • Oct 24, 2008 • 45 m
Kush
After capturing a particularly elusive abnormal the plane carrying Dr. Magnus and Will crashes while transporting the creature. Dr. Magnus and Will soon discover why this abnormal has never been captured before.
Episode 6 • Nov 7, 2008 • 45 m
Nubbins
Dr. Magnus, Ashley and Will retrieve two species of abnormal that have the ability to camouflage so well that they are near invisible. One appears to be a vicious predator, the other a cute, furry animal but nothing is as it appears.
Episode 7 • Nov 14, 2008 • 45 m
The Five
Dr. Magnus learns that the Cabal are planning revenge for the kidnap of the Morrigan while something has come between Dr. Magnus, Ashley and Will.
Episode 8 • Nov 21, 2008 • 45 m
Edward
Henry comes to terms with his abnormal side, Ashley works through her feelings about her parents, and Will helps a young autistic man whose father possibly shot himself.
Episode 9 • Dec 5, 2008 • 46 m
Requiem
Dr. Magnus' life is put in jeopardy when the team answers a call for help from within the Bermuda Triangle.
Episode 10 • Dec 12, 2008 • 46 m
Warriors
Episode 11 • Dec 19, 2008 • 46 m
Instinct
Desperate to get her first exclusive story, a reporter and her cameraman sneak inside an evacuated building. Inside they find Dr. Magnus and her team, and a creature greater than any of them were prepared for.
Episode 12 • Dec 29, 2008 • 45 m
Revelations, Part 1
In an unprecedented alliance Druitt and Sherlock Holmes work with Sanctuary to deduce why normally placid abnormals are running amok. Their plan, infiltrate their prime suspect, The Cabal.
Episode 13 • Jan 5, 2009 • 45 m
Revelations, Part 2
With Ashley and Henry in the hands of the Cabal the rest of the team venture to a remote vampire enclave to recover the last known sample of vampire blood; the power they need to defeat the Cabal.

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 7 Critic Reviews
56
14% Positive
1 Review
86% Mixed
6 Reviews
0% Negative
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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 7 Critic Reviews
56
14% Positive
1 Review
86% Mixed
6 Reviews
0% Negative
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63
Given that, let me also say that virtual sets don't make up for virtual plots. Not that Sanctuary doesn't have its moments, and those moments might prove to be fast and furious after tonight's two-hour premiere when the show goes to a more manageable one-hour format.
By Linda Stasi FULL REVIEW
60
It takes on an early thrilling ride, only to inexplicably start coasting when we need it to shift to the next gear.
By Ray Richmond FULL REVIEW
60
The competent but uninspiring two-hour pilot doesn't deliver the kind of thrills destined to rock anyone else's world.
By Brian Lowry FULL REVIEW
60
Much of it feels dreadfully slow, not so much moody as stretched for time....Things do pick up significantly with the arrival of Christopher Heyerdahl as John Druitt.
By Mary McNamara FULL REVIEW
60
Sanctuary’s pace is a little on the stately side, and the show is competent if not particularly innovative sci-fi.
By Maureen Ryan FULL REVIEW
50
It’s not an embarrassment for the channel, but it doesn’t raise the stakes either.
FULL REVIEW
40
The show isn't helped by a two-hour premiere that states and re-states its premise too many times.
By Rob Owen FULL REVIEW

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8.0
80% Positive
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20% Mixed
4 Ratings
0% Negative
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20% Mixed
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