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
5.5 out of 10

Mixed or average reviews- based on 32 Ratings

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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): Drama, Action & Adventure, Suspense, Science Fiction

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. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Ginia Bellafante
    30
    It never grows quite suspenseful enough, and it rests on the rather un-sci-fi-ish idea that the future is a benign force, like a mentor uncle with something meaningful to teach us about our venality and callous disregard for the Earth.
  4. 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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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 12 out of 24
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 24
  3. Negative: 9 out of 24
  1. wearetheothers
    10
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  2. 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.… Collapse
  3. ConnorB
    7
    While never quite growing suspenseful enough for a theatrical motion picture, "The Andromeda Strain" manages to transform Crichton's best seller into a believable, albeit far-fetched, joy ride.… Expand
  4. 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

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