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- 2019
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- 2019
- TV-MA
- Netflix
- 2019
- TV-MA
- Netflix
- 2019
- TV-MA
- Netflix
Chambers
Season 1 Premiere: Apr 26, 2019
48
5.5
All Seasons
Top Cast
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 16 Critic Reviews
48
25% Positive
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
50% Mixed
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
25% Negative
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 16 Critic Reviews
48
25% Positive
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
50% Mixed
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
25% Negative
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
This is a stylish, spooky piece of work, with some original twists that give it a little more punch than your average flick.
The ambition is admirable. Episodes will jump forward and backward in time, teasing out elements of story in ways not often seen on television, and helping to keep the endless J.J. Abrams-style mystery-box tactics of the show from getting overly tiresome.
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 27 User Ratings
5.5
41% Positive
11 Ratings
11 Ratings
26% Mixed
7 Ratings
7 Ratings
33% Negative
9 Ratings
9 Ratings
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 27 User Ratings
5.5
41% Positive
11 Ratings
11 Ratings
26% Mixed
7 Ratings
7 Ratings
33% Negative
9 Ratings
9 Ratings
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While much of the teen supporting cast, including Kyanna Simone Simpson as best pal Yvonne and Sarah Mezzanotte as mean girl Marnie, are just right, Rose is flat through most of her scenes. The scares, at least in the opening episodes, rise from jump cuts or dreams. Ten episodes just seems too long for any heart to suffer this story.
As things stand, it’s a derivative, badly paced, supernatural slog that substitutes jump-cuts for actual shocks, and Sasha’s extensive nail art for character development and delivers little in the way of surprise – or frankly, even expected – twists. There will be no harm done when this one gives up the ghost.
After a fitfully frightening start, the series falls into a kind of narrative catatonia benefiting none of the actors, even pros like Goldwyn and Thurman. ... The show’s sluggish pace often dilutes its sense of dread. The ingredients are there for a loopy body-horror freakout, but this series’ pulse stays damnably faint, even when it should be sending yours through the roof.
Watching “Chambers,” you can see various better shows it might have been--an entertaining supernatural murder mystery with Sasha as an intrepid Native American Nancy Drew, or a trippy, surrealist comedy (which would have made more use of Sasha’s uncle’s business, an exotic-fish store in the desert called Wet Pets). It’s too bad no one ordered a screenplay transplant.
Chambers ... doesn’t have much going for it — it’s a grody, nasty piece of work, a story that would at least be endurable if it were the under-ninety-minute movie it seems to want to be.
Production Company:
- Super Deluxe
- Super Emotional
Initial Release Date: Apr 26, 2019
Number of seasons: 1 Season
Rating: TV-MA
