- Network: FOX
- Series Premiere Date: Sep 26, 2011
- Season #: 1
- Summary: In the year 2149, humankind seeks escape from the polluted Earth by traveling to the past to establish a new colony.
- Genre(s): Comedy, Drama, Science Fiction, Science
- Show Type: Ended
- Season 1 premiere date: Sep 26, 2011
- Episode Length: 60
- Air Time: 08:00 PM
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 16 out of 28
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Mixed: 11 out of 28
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Negative: 1 out of 28
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83As a weekly series, the effects need to remain impressive and the writers need to avoid falling into "Lost" and "Walking Dead" band-of-survivors rehash.
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80Terra Nova manages to introduce a panoply of narrative threads and themes while telling a remarkably clean story, both in terms of plot line and tone; Terra Nova is whole-family friendly.
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60Indeed, it is hard to knock Terra Nova overall, such does it succeed on its own terms, which involve working over the pituitary brain and the sympathetic soul.
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30By the end of a couple of episodes, most viewers will be wishing Spielberg and his henchmen had spent more time on scripts and less on special effects, even if it meant splicing old outtakes of Barney and Friends into the action sequences.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 53 out of 107
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Mixed: 15 out of 107
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Negative: 39 out of 107
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