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The Andromeda Strain: Season 1
  • Network: A&E
  • Series Premiere Date: May 26, 2008
  • Season #: 1
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Metascore
40 out of 100

Mixed or average reviews - based on 18 Critics What's this?

User Score
3.9 out of 10

Generally unfavorable- based on 20 Ratings

Your Score
10 out of 10
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  • Summary: Michael Crichton's novel, which involves a deadly disease that is unleashed when a satellite crashes into a small town, is remade again, this time as a miniseries.
  • Genre(s): Science-Fiction, Drama, Movie/Mini-Series

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 18
  2. Mixed: 6 out of 18
  3. Negative: 8 out of 18
  1. The Hollywood Reporter
    Reviewed by: Barry Garron
    80
    Each part has edge-of-the-seat moments, thanks to some admirable performances as well as several intriguing new plot twists that inject surprise at key moments.
  2. Philadelphia Inquirer
    Reviewed by: Jonathan Storm
    50
    For about three hours and 40 minutes, the mini-series rockets along, an exciting pile of preposterousness with conspiratorial overtones. Then it fizzles, with stuff you've seen 1,000 times before, and irritating loose ends.
  3. Miami Herald
    Reviewed by: Glenn Garvin
    30
    A hacky remake of a mediocre 1971 film of a pulp-science 1969 novel, this miniseries (it concludes Tuesday, if you must waste two nights of your life) is a poster child for generational decline: Whatever few IQ points were present in the original have long since leached away.

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User Reviews

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 16
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 16
  3. Negative: 9 out of 16
  1. JerryG
    8
    I found the series to be very interesting if not true to the original book. The parts about the cover-up was a definite improvement from he book. That being said th ending was so far out of left feild it was in another movie. But all in all you should give it a try.… Expand
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  2. JRC.
    4
    After awhile you just need to stop indulging all those writers "What if's". "Ooh! What if the where attacked by sharks next!?" "Sharks? Their in an under ground bunker in the desert." "How about ducks then?" Just get on with the end of the show already!… Expand
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  3. TriciaB
    3
    It sucked. It lacked the "gee-whiz" of the original (not to mention the book) by failing to explain ANY of the science taking place in either version of the original, and by substitutiing the lame notion that a wormhole somehow transported the bug to earth. Crichton made the science understandable in the book, and respected the reader enough to offer a challenge. This movie just offers an opportunity for a nap.… Expand
    • 0 of 0 users said yes

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