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  • 2015
  • TV-14
  • NBC
  • 2015
  • TV-14
  • NBC

Summary After Sgt. Odelle Ballard (Anna Friel) discovers a computer file that implicates a major US corporation of funding Jihadists, her unit is murdered by US Special Forces, just as former U.S. Attorney Peter Decker (Peter Facinelli) tackles a merger with the corporation, and political activist Harrison Walters (Jake Robinson) hears from a ha...

Created By: Adam Armus, Nora Kay Foster, Peter Horton

  • 2015
  • TV-14
  • NBC
  • 2015
  • TV-14
  • NBC

American Odyssey

Season 1 Premiere: Apr 5, 2015
Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 17 Critic Reviews
59
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 60 User Ratings
7.1
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Summary After Sgt. Odelle Ballard (Anna Friel) discovers a computer file that implicates a major US corporation of funding Jihadists, her unit is murdered by US Special Forces, just as former U.S. Attorney Peter Decker (Peter Facinelli) tackles a merger with the corporation, and political activist Harrison Walters (Jake Robinson) hears from a ha...

Created By: Adam Armus, Nora Kay Foster, Peter Horton

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 17 Critic Reviews
59
47% Positive
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41% Mixed
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12% Negative
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Mixed or Average Based on 17 Critic Reviews
59
47% Positive
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41% Mixed
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12% Negative
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100
Apr 2, 2015
American Odyssey is rooted in current events, which provides immediate credibility to the series. But like “Homeland,” “Person of Interest” and other shows, it also makes effective use of the post-9/11 air of wariness that wafts through American society. Conspiracy buffs will be in heaven watching American Odyssey, but the rest of us will just be completely hooked.
By David Wiegand FULL REVIEW
80
Apr 6, 2015
American Odyssey is very much its own creation: clever, exciting, colorful without being self-consciously so. Most important, it is only occasionally ridiculous in the way conspiracy thrillers inevitably are.
By Mary McNamara FULL REVIEW
70
Apr 3, 2015
Peter Facinelli (plays a former U.S. attorney and Jake Robinson an activist who are also getting dangerously close to the secret that threatens Sgt. Ballard, though it's Friel and Omar Ghazaoui, the young Moroccan playing her traveling companion, who are most responsible for making American Odyssey stand out from the conspiracy crowd.
By Ellen Gray FULL REVIEW
50
Mar 31, 2015
American Odyssey is equal parts ambitious and frustrating.
By Brian Tallerico FULL REVIEW
40
Apr 2, 2015
American Odyssey has one gripping tale to tell. The problem is, there are three tales embedded in its framework, which includes familiar elements--the tension of “24” and the intrigue of “Homeland”--that add up to something less than the sum of its parts.
By Sarah Rodman FULL REVIEW
40
Apr 2, 2015
American Odyssey feels strained, tired and devoid of nuance, related less to the disenchantment associated with what’s happening today than the paranoid political thrillers of the 1970s. Nor does the series gain strength over four subsequent episodes
By Brian Lowry FULL REVIEW
37
Apr 3, 2015
There's perhaps an outside chance that NBC's American Odyssey might not seem quite as impenetrably dull had we not already seen--or ignored--a hundred similar tales of terrorist conspiracies and government coverups. But we have and it does, and there's really no coming back from that.
By Robert Bianco FULL REVIEW

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17% Mixed
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15% Negative
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Production Company:
  • Dune Films
  • Fabrik Entertainment
  • Pico Creek Productions
  • Red Arrow Entertainment Group
  • Universal Television
Initial Release Date: Apr 5, 2015
Number of seasons: 2 Seasons
Rating: TV-14
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