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- BBC-1
- Jul 6, 2009
- BBC-1
- Jul 6, 2009
Summary Torchwood, a spin-off from the popular sci-fi show Doctor Who, follows a group of investigators working for the secret organisation of the same name. Set in Cardiff, Wales the team specialise in alien technology that has landed on Earth, and crime, whether it be alien or human. The mysterious Captain Jack Harkness is the leader of the eq...
- BBC-1
- Jul 6, 2009
- BBC-1
- Jul 6, 2009
Summary Torchwood, a spin-off from the popular sci-fi show Doctor Who, follows a group of investigators working for the secret organisation of the same name. Set in Cardiff, Wales the team specialise in alien technology that has landed on Earth, and crime, whether it be alien or human. The mysterious Captain Jack Harkness is the leader of the eq...
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Universal Acclaim
Based on 12 Critic Reviews
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92% Positive
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8% Mixed
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0% Negative
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 12 Critic Reviews
81
92% Positive
11 Reviews
11 Reviews
8% Mixed
1 Review
1 Review
0% Negative
0 Reviews
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Torchwood: Children of Earth is one of the TV events of the year, and anyone with a taste for serious dark fantasy is encouraged to strap in for the thrilling, chilling and unnerving ride.
Amid the emotional crescendoes of the final hour (which the cast pulls off beautifully), in the pell-mell race to the finish line, there is some rushed storytelling and there are more than a few gaps in logic. But aside from those issues, Children of Earth is, as the Brits would say, bloody brilliant.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 42 User Ratings
7.6
79% Positive
33 Ratings
33 Ratings
7% Mixed
3 Ratings
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14% Negative
6 Ratings
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User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 42 User Ratings
7.6
79% Positive
33 Ratings
33 Ratings
7% Mixed
3 Ratings
3 Ratings
14% Negative
6 Ratings
6 Ratings
[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]
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SEASON 3
It's five nights of stimulating and ultimately disturbing television, and I'd like nothing better than to have more people to talk with about it.
It is genuinely creepy--party "X-Files," part "Close Encounters," with fine performances all around.
It's a conclusion that seemed to me both contrived and honest, if that makes any sense, and it left me disturbed, though not, as Doctor Who often has, a sobbing wreck.
This first episode has brief nods to the deaths last season of two series regulars--Owen and Toshiko--and it acknowledges advances in the relationship between bisexual Jack and Ianto (Gareth David-Lloyd). But more than anything it's a propulsive action-adventure.
Despite these quibbles, Children of Earth is still good fun, if not good, exactly.
I really didn't think that Russel T Davis would ever redeem himself for some of his later penned episodes of Doctor Who, but man does this renew all the faith that was lost and then some. This really is one of the best sci-fi dramas I have ever watched. Torchwood has come so very far from that hideously awful early episode with Ianto's cyborg girlfriend. A dark, sinister, thought provoking and intense edge of your seat thriller that never once loses the human factor. I really cannot express how much better this is than all previous installments of the series (and personally, I thought the second season was excellent). Chilling and gripping. I had hoped that RTD would have grown out of his "techno-babble fixes things last minute" crutch that plagued his Doctor Who scripts but unfortunately, it rears its ugly head, if only ever so slightly, in the finale. This however, is by no means a deal breaker and no other criticisms seem worth mentioning (even mentioning that feels like nitpicking). This series is incredible and oh so nearly perfect. I'd give it 9.5 if metacritic would let me.
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SEASON 3
While visually OK and well acted, this abbreviated season snuffed out my love for the show.
I am very disappointed, it was so dark and depressing and frankly completely out of character. After I finished episode 5 I wished I hadn't bothered. With plot holes big enough to fill a TARDIS, the storyline will leave you bitter and angry.
If I wanted to see endless political deception, suicide and murder I could just watch the news. This story brings out the worst in everyone, especially the writers. A textbook case of destroying a great television show.
When you liked Torchwood and its characters in the first two seasons I can assure you there is no need to watch this third season of the show. It was badly written and plotted and not worth anyones while.
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