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- 2014
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- Amazon Instant Video
- 2014
- TV-MA
- Amazon Instant Video
Summary Judge Pernell Harris (Ron Perlman) suffers a breakdown and believing he is receiving messages from God, seeks vengeance against the rapist who destroyed his family.
Created By: Ben Watkins
- 2014
- TV-MA
- Amazon Instant Video
- 2014
- TV-MA
- Amazon Instant Video
Hand of God
Season 1 Premiere: Aug 27, 2014
44
7.2
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Summary Judge Pernell Harris (Ron Perlman) suffers a breakdown and believing he is receiving messages from God, seeks vengeance against the rapist who destroyed his family.
Created By: Ben Watkins
Where to Watch
Top Cast
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 19 Critic Reviews
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11% Positive
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
63% Mixed
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12 Reviews
26% Negative
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 19 Critic Reviews
44
11% Positive
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
63% Mixed
12 Reviews
12 Reviews
26% Negative
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
Hand of God’s strengths are its elongated scenes, enabling the characters ample time to play off one another.... The wheels keep turning but can take too long to get rolling while the plot hits some ruts in the road.
There are enough flourishes surrounding Pernell’s visions to maintain viewer interest, but after a while the pilot feels like a slog.
Despite frequent predictability and other issues, though, we do get pulled into the story. Even if we don’t always believe the characters, or huge swaths of dialogue, we do want answers, to the crimes, yes, but also to whether the judge is a nutcase or the only sane person in San Vicente.
There’s a much more entertaining but less intensely violent show buried in Hand of God somewhere.
Amazon is currently in the "spare no expense" stage of original-content production, and it shows everywhere but in the story. Perlman is a strong and deceptively supple performer, but he isn't a miracle worker. Even bad crazy guys need a gleam of humanity, and Pernell has none. Delaney is mostly sidelined, as are Royo and Tal.... Dillahunt's ability to show this, to swing KD from brutal violence to soul-searching, is miraculous. It just isn't enough.
Created by writer Ben Watkins, Hand of God has the pace of a pulp novel anxious to keep an audience watching, heedless of believability or motivation.
It looks good. Sadly, that polished exterior hides a filthy, vile interior.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 64 User Ratings
7.2
67% Positive
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43 Ratings
16% Mixed
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User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 64 User Ratings
7.2
67% Positive
43 Ratings
43 Ratings
16% Mixed
10 Ratings
10 Ratings
17% Negative
11 Ratings
11 Ratings
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Production Company:
- 2DUX²
- Amazon Studios
- Blue Monday Productions
- LINK Entertainment
- Picrow
Initial Release Date: Aug 27, 2014
Number of seasons: 2 Seasons
Rating: TV-MA
Awards
Image Awards (NAACP)
• 1 Nomination
