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- 2016
- TV-14
- The CW
- 2016
- TV-14
- The CW
Summary Based on a Belgian series, an epidemic in Atlanta forces a large quarantine that separates love ones from each other.
- 2016
- TV-14
- The CW
- 2016
- TV-14
- The CW
Containment
Season 1 Premiere: Apr 19, 2016
48
6.1
Summary Based on a Belgian series, an epidemic in Atlanta forces a large quarantine that separates love ones from each other.
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Mixed or Average
Based on 20 Critic Reviews
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35% Positive
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 20 Critic Reviews
48
35% Positive
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7 Reviews
40% Mixed
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8 Reviews
25% Negative
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5 Reviews
This is a disaster movie writ large for TV and the simple fact is, it works despite some none-too-subtle turns. You can’t help being enthralled by a story you wouldn’t want to be a part of.
Although the dialogue is occasionally a bit cute, the rest of the cast comes across as mostly solid and believable.
Although Containment may be convincing, it isn’t particularly compelling, because the characters seldom register as anything other than pawns--most of them sacrificial.
A multi-character drama, Containment is fine but unexceptional.
Containment has a reasonably suspenseful pilot as directed by David Nutter (Game of Thrones, The X-Files). But as the series proceeds, it just becomes more repetitive and tedious.
While the too-rare action sequences can be thrilling--as when meth heads lay siege to Jana’s office hoping to score some chemicals to huff--such instances aren’t enough to inoculate viewers against the deadly dull.
Plagued by mediocre writing and stubbornly dull acting, this unpleasant misfire feels like slow death as it spins out subplots from Disaster Movie 101. [18 Apr-1 May 2016, p.19]
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 70 User Ratings
6.1
60% Positive
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13% Mixed
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27% Negative
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User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 70 User Ratings
6.1
60% Positive
42 Ratings
42 Ratings
13% Mixed
9 Ratings
9 Ratings
27% Negative
19 Ratings
19 Ratings
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Production Company:
- Eyeworks
- My So-Called Company
- Warner Bros. Television
Initial Release Date: Apr 19, 2016
Number of seasons: 1 Season
Rating: TV-14
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