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100Another edge-of-your-seat thriller.
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90The second season of "Sleeper Cell" burrows even deeper into the mind-set of Muslim extremists than the first and is all the better and more troubling for it.
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88Powerful.
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80Ealy and Fehr give fierce performances that will keep fans hooked.
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80The action is intense in "Sleeper Cell," and each episode includes at least one stunning moment of violence or betrayal. But character depth isn't sacrificed to keep the pace moving, and there are valuable calms between the storms.
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80As exciting as the original.
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80If you can make the time in a season where most programmers think we're all too busy shopping to be watching anything heavier than "Miracle on 34th Street" (the Natalie Wood version, of course), then "Sleeper Cell" delivers.
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80"Sleeper Cell" is a compelling, kinetic ride that matches "24" in its power and is far more realistic and topical.
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75The acting, writing and directing are subtle and graceful.
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75The quickened pulse is a plus: The violence registers as sharp, stinging slaps. [11 Dec 2006, p.41]
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70The series would fall apart if Al-Farik were a cardboard cutout villain. Who'd want to watch eight hours of this man's journey if he were just a shallow action-movie bad guy? But thanks to Fehr's brave, layered performance, it's impossible to ignore Al-Farik or the ideas that motivate him.
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70The show isn't brilliant, but it is audaciously alive.
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70Violent and sometimes sexually tawdry, as only pay cable can be, Sleeper Cell is not for the faint of heart, but it provides well-constructed thrills with its tour of the morally ambiguous land of counter-terrorism.
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70A significant improvement in the sequel is its keener sense of urgency and alarm, achieved by down-scaling the exposition and character development that bogged down the first hours of the original.
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70While not perfect, [it] manages to be both exciting and--if not exactly realistic--then at least reality-grounded.
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70Reminiscent of 24 but about a dozen times more realistic (though dramatically more uneven).
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70"Sleeper Cell" is nicely acted, produced, written, directed, but is still so deeply rooted in the conventions of the medium, that no matter how hard it tries, or how hard it wants to be something else, this still ends up Just TV.
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70The new edition delivers many of the same thrills and intelligent debate that made the original so exceptional. But the mere act of bringing it back creates problems the original never had to deal with.
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50It hardly enlightens, and it never feels urgent. It feels like a decent cop drama pretending to be something more important.
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20A dreary thing it is, and depressing, too.
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WareC1Absolutely terrible! And I loved last years mini-series.
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AdamM9Great show, makes me sad and want revenge myself! Badass fight in the streets of Yemen as well...