- Network: ABC
- Series Premiere Date: Sep 30, 2012
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[A] stylish Gothic thriller that almost gives away a little too much Sunday. Otherwise, thumbs up.
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Williams and O'Quinn bring genuine creepiness to their roles, making this drama crazy-fun, with emphasis on the crazy. [28 Sep 2012, p.66]
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Crisply written and acted, grafting some Enron-era scandal onto a morality tale that goes back to Faust, 666 Park Avenue gives good goosebump.
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Better than a haunted house story, 666 Park has the potential to seduce audiences with a mix of grandeur, drama and horror and an underlying message on what's truly valuable in life.
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666 Park Avenue remains good Gothic Trash. [26 Nov 2012, p.44]
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The production values are first-rate, the performances convincing, and with 60 units in the building, there's a wealth of potential stories to keep 666 in ABC's address book for several seasons.
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666 Park Avenue will have a little of what "American Horror Story" is having, obviously, even if its frights aren't nearly as jumpy.
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Surely that elevator knows it's you when it decides to do its devilish little bounce. That's one of the jokes of ABC's not-so-scary-but-still-great-fun 666 Park Avenue.
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The details of those bargains and interrelationships among the inhabitants of the Drake will no doubt be fleshed out in subsequent episodes. But the premiere, at least, hasn't found a way to make this odd mix of high-end real estate and B-movie occultism compelling enough that you're eager for more.
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Still, for all its flaws, this is an intriguing show, packed with atmospheric details and Easter-egg-style grace notes.
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A stylish ambience and a familiar cast might not be enough to make 666 Park Avenue into another unlikely Sunday night hit for ABC.
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The cast is certainly strong...[however] the formula could become awfully repetitive if the primary characters' story is augmented each week by a "B" plot regarding another resident, which is what transpires in the pilot, and doesn't prove particularly compelling.
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There are elements of the "Friday the 13th: The Series" and any J-horror film here, but the frights are few.
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All that said, 666 Park Avenue is diverting enough, if hardly original.
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This posh address, which could yet become catnip for occultists, looks to be for amateurs only.
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666 Park Avenue [is] ABC's not-scary rip-off of "Rosemary's Baby."
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Alas, what must have sounded frightening on paper falls dead on-screen, done in by bad writing and terrible pacing.
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I want 666 Park Avenue to be scarier and more interesting.
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666 Park Avenue doesn't entirely lack a pulse, but doesn't get the blood rushing either.
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It's just kind of meh and a TV show with a devil at the center should be more fun than that.
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Perhaps the worst offense by 666 is that it's not even an ounce scary.
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The clash of myriad supernatural powers and symbols isn't willfully dissonant or postmodern. Instead it feels vague and occasionally lazy.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 65 out of 90
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Mixed: 16 out of 90
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Negative: 9 out of 90
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Oct 28, 2012
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Oct 16, 2012
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Oct 15, 2012