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- ABC
- Nov 3, 2009
- ABC
- Nov 3, 2009
Summary When UFOs place themselves over major cities around the world the Visitors claim to come in peace, providing humanity with medical miracles and technological breakthroughs, while different characters become suspicious of the 'V's (visitors) real intentions and try to investigate what is really going on before it is too late so they can c...
Created By: Kenneth Johnson
- ABC
- Nov 3, 2009
- ABC
- Nov 3, 2009
Summary When UFOs place themselves over major cities around the world the Visitors claim to come in peace, providing humanity with medical miracles and technological breakthroughs, while different characters become suspicious of the 'V's (visitors) real intentions and try to investigate what is really going on before it is too late so they can c...
Created By: Kenneth Johnson
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 23 Critic Reviews
66
65% Positive
15 Reviews
15 Reviews
35% Mixed
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
0% Negative
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The pilot for this drama is good. I have a few quibbles with it--some of the character drama is a bit clunky--but overall, I found the first hour of the show to be solidly entertaining and suitably suspenseful.
As the plot of V progresses, no doubt we will see the subtle strangulation of democracy by fascism--already the press has been corrupted--and that is a story that cannot be told often enough. Especially when it comes, like the V's, in such a fine, fun and attractive package.
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Generally Favorable
Based on 48 User Ratings
6.5
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User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 48 User Ratings
6.5
54% Positive
26 Ratings
26 Ratings
31% Mixed
15 Ratings
15 Ratings
15% Negative
7 Ratings
7 Ratings
Amazing show. Compared to recent crap that has come out. I want this back! The computer animation is spot on (compared to new shows like Falling Skies), the acting is way beter overall. Characters like Morena Baccarin, and Morris Chestnut make it all worth the watch (no body is terrible like on a Sci Fi show, The Event, or Falling Skies). Another great part about this series is that the directing is very up to date with filming and executing suspense scenes. It get's very suspenseful when characters break in to the ship.
The best part about the V script is it is one of the most logical sci-fi scripts ever. It makes the most sense. If an Alien race wanted to destroy us, the best way would to trick us by healing and **** us in. Not wage war.
It's sad that this failed, and it failed for one reason. It was a remake. And an older audience obviously attacked this, like they would any series for not being perfectly like the original. This is one of the best shows in the last 5 years. It blows away any Sci Fi show and is better than a lot of crappy sci-fi movies.
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SEASON 1
The surprisingly timely V plays off concerns about universal health care, terrorism, sleeper cells and journalists' access to leaders. But the series is, above all, a first-rate thriller filled with twists, shocks and heroic figures.
V doesn't have an original premise - the humans versus aliens thing is as old as moving pictures. But the special effects are better, and if ABC can get you to buy into the storytelling then it might have another genre hit on its hands.
Indeed, if the show is to have the symbolic import that we expect from a science-fiction story, this is the only possible way to read V as a coherent text. The only problem with this analysis lies in its generous presupposition that the text is, in fact, coherent.
V has to rise and fall on its story and its characters. Based on the pilot, both of those areas are spotty.
The ideas in V, about alien encounters and mass delusion and media manipulation, are enticing. It’s too bad that they’re floating around in a show that at this early stage, is so slapdash and formulaic in its storytelling.
Sadly the show had to come to an end.
Yeah, the show isn't as good as the original or the cartoon series, but I think they added some nice elements to it - that the original didn't have..
Acting is so and so, but the feeling is still entertaining and its appealing enough to pull me into the next episode.
Can we please make the last seasons or somehow get a continuation with the love that it deserves?
Anyway -
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SEASON 1
[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]
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SEASON 1
I'm really dis-appointed by this show. I love Morena Baccarin and she is wonderful as the arch baddie but the rest of the show is a real let down. Science Fiction has to be well written and internally consistent if it's to engage and hold an audience but V just comes across as (yet another) TV series written by non-sci fi writers who don't have a grasp of the genre.
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SEASON 1
this show features a lot of claustrophobic cgi-caged greenroom-filmed scenes. doesn't even try to get a match to the 1984 mini series original props. the artwork is quite decent, which may be necessary not to get in the viewer's face too much. actors faces are actually hd compatible. writing and plot line are unpleasantly bad. filming has a more conservative approach.
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