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- Sky One
- Feb 21, 2020
- Sky One
- Feb 21, 2020
Summary NSA agent Jerry Bernstein (David Schwimmer) is transferred to GCHQ, the UK's NSA-like equivalent. Computer analyst Joseph Harries (Nick Mohammed) helps Jerry in his attempt to take over control in this comedy written by Mohammed.
Created By: Nick Mohammed
- Sky One
- Feb 21, 2020
- Sky One
- Feb 21, 2020
Summary NSA agent Jerry Bernstein (David Schwimmer) is transferred to GCHQ, the UK's NSA-like equivalent. Computer analyst Joseph Harries (Nick Mohammed) helps Jerry in his attempt to take over control in this comedy written by Mohammed.
Created By: Nick Mohammed
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 20 Critic Reviews
54
30% Positive
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
65% Mixed
13 Reviews
13 Reviews
5% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
While Intelligence’s first episode could have been a skosh funnier, Mohammed, Schwimmer and the rest of the cast do such a strong job of embodying their characters that we’re eager to see where things go.
Dryly funny, rude in a polite way, restrained even when it gets grotesque or slapstick, the show is kept from brittleness by the fretful, the hangdog — the Ross — that Schwimmer’s character hides inside, and his growing dependence on Nick Mohammed’s sweet, slow, hero-worshiping computer analyst.
Schwimmer and Mohammed, who plays a junior analyst often treated like an assistant, bounce off of one another well, finding a lively call-and-response rhythm as one man’s brand of idiocy tangles with the other’s. ... As for Intelligence itself: I’m not eager to watch more of it specifically, but I would be curious to see what else Mohammed—who is a funny and game performer, and gradually proves a limber writer—could do with a series that’s less freighted by unavoidable comparisons to a recent, iconic piece of work.
Schwimmer is what he is: calculatedly awkward and not all that funny when Jerry is blustering and oddly disarming when Jerry is vulnerable, which isn’t often. “Intelligence” is mild tea overall, but it’s an easy binge at just over two hours for its six episodes.
Stop me when you’ve heard this one before: a baseline functional workplace full of well-meaning misfits gets a jolt from a hotheaded new guy, hijinks ensue, lather, rinse, repeat.
Schwimmer, it must be said, tears into his Intelligence role without ever pandering for audience sympathy; he's the reason to watch the series, though it's probably an insufficient reason. ... It's not there yet. It's not there because none of the other supporting characters are funny, nor are the ways they're introduced.
Awful. ... An attempt at a cringe comedy but can't find any humor in its awkward, tasteless jokes, and no amount of scenery chewing from Schwimmer can save it.
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