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- Crackle
- Sep 6, 2016
- Crackle
- Sep 6, 2016
Summary In Miami, FBI agent Phil Rask (Martin Freeman) has been investigating Nick Talman's (Adam Brody) father, who asks his son to hide the dirty money. Nick invests the cash in a digital currency start up run Izzy Morales (Otmara Marrero), which also brings the interest of Ronald Dacey (Edi Gathegi), a local Haitian gang leader.
Created By: Ben Ketai
- Crackle
- Sep 6, 2016
- Crackle
- Sep 6, 2016
Summary In Miami, FBI agent Phil Rask (Martin Freeman) has been investigating Nick Talman's (Adam Brody) father, who asks his son to hide the dirty money. Nick invests the cash in a digital currency start up run Izzy Morales (Otmara Marrero), which also brings the interest of Ronald Dacey (Edi Gathegi), a local Haitian gang leader.
Created By: Ben Ketai
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Based on 13 Critic Reviews
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 13 Critic Reviews
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31% Positive
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4 Reviews
69% Mixed
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0% Negative
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StartUp is a thinking-person’s thriller, along the lines of USA’s “Mr. Robot.” Ketai delves into greed, corruption, violence and more, and none of his characters are immune to any of it.
It still moves in fits and starts, but each of the first five episodes improves on the last, and as the show focuses more on the strength of its breakneck storytelling, it’s becoming not just the best reason to try Crackle, but one of the more promising new streaming series of the year.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 61 User Ratings
7.4
74% Positive
45 Ratings
45 Ratings
11% Mixed
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15% Negative
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9 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 61 User Ratings
7.4
74% Positive
45 Ratings
45 Ratings
11% Mixed
7 Ratings
7 Ratings
15% Negative
9 Ratings
9 Ratings
This is probably the most underrated TV show I've ever seen in my life. I just got Amazon Prime for 6 months and I went in with no expectations, but I was amazed and mesmerized. The acting, storytelling, camera, soundtracks, and every element in the movie came together beautifully.
I'd say that Edi Gathegi has become one of my all-time favorite actors just because of his performance in this show. If the other actors and actresses weren't as great as they were, I'd say he steals the show.
Forget the critics and go in with an open mind, you'll absolutely love it.
I watched the whole show in two days and I can't remember binge watching any other show that much except The Wire.
Forget what the critics said and go in and enjoy the ride.
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SEASON 1
Despite strong work by its actors, StartUp is just another exploration of underground crime and shady dealings that we’ve seen a thousand times before on film and television.
The show’s sex and violence propel the story, but not quite to the speed necessary to occlude its problems. If you work extra hard to suspend disbelief, it’s modestly entertaining.
StartUp takes its three leads--along with Martin Freeman’s morally compromised FBI agent, whose hunt for the missing money is fueled by personal greed more than professional determination--and strands them in a swamp of sweaty sex scenes (there are three in the first third of the premiere alone) and unnecessary, over-the-top action set-pieces.
[Creator Ben] Ketai can't figure out how to make action-free things like character development, backstory and setting flow within the storytelling, and even the action that felt like it came so naturally to Chosen doesn't flow here.
The 10-episode series--like The Art of More--unfolds at a sleepy pace, and only plays with style (like one particularly great unbroken shot in the first hour), without committing to it.
Every bit as good as True Detective. I have no idea why critics didn't rate this more highly. The characters felt very real to me, and I'm not easily fooled. There is desperation in some of the actions, and I felt that desperation and despair. Martin Freeman was a revelation - watch for the scene of him sitting in his car, trying to come to terms with some of his choices - it is compelling viewing. The story takes you on a journey, and it doesn't always take you where you want to go, but it makes you feel every bump in the road. I hope they make a second series, because this one will stay with me for a very long time and I haven't felt that since Breaking Bad ended.
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SEASON 1
Do not believe the negative reviews. I've read plenty of them and it seems everyone picked up on buzz terms like too much sex and violence. The sex scenes are not as only 10% of what you would see on most cable shows. The directors chose to cut them in a way that made them seem realistic and raw, without even showing any real nudity! The violence is also not as common as reviewers would have you believe but when it happens it packs a punch.
This is the smartest most well directed show I have seen in a while. At the heart of the drama are the four main characters who are all brought together for the same reason: to make a change. I'm including in this the "villain" played by Martin Freeman who in every scene completely surprised me by the choices he made. He is both intimidating and relatable and always a much more complex rich character than you would expect from even the best of tv shows.
Ronald, played by Edi Gathegi, the Haitian gangster has the most powerful presence. I can't remember another show where an actor could steal a scene with simply the look on his eyes.
The show is a tense thriller and manages to have heart and humor at the same time. There isn't quite any show like it out there today and I'm seriously dissapointed at the hack job reviewers have been doing in writing about it. Their writing process becomes transparent: jot down the first impressions while watching the first 20 minutes of the show (while most probably checking their twitter accounts and other reviews on the show as "research" at the same time), put a spellchecker on and "submit". Get paid.
And most times this is passable because TV has been predictable on how unpredictable it tries to be. This time however professional tv critics have been revealed to how **** they are at what they do, because this show deserves the utmost praise.
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SEASON 1
This show just seems to try too hard to be cool, to the point where it loses credibility.
If you've ever got to the point where you've watched a show and thought "Yeah... I'm not buying that", you'll know what I mean.
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SEASON 1
A parade of unpleasant people being unpleasant to each other that insults the viewer's intelligence from start to finish. Unwatchable garbage.
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