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- NBC
- Sep 28, 2021
- NBC
- Sep 28, 2021
Summary A gigantic sinkhole takes a group of Los Angeles residents, including a Eve Harris (Natalie Zea) and her son Josh (Jack Martin) into a primeval world where they must work together to find a way home in this drama series written by David Applebaum.
Created By: David Appelbaum
- NBC
- Sep 28, 2021
- NBC
- Sep 28, 2021
Summary A gigantic sinkhole takes a group of Los Angeles residents, including a Eve Harris (Natalie Zea) and her son Josh (Jack Martin) into a primeval world where they must work together to find a way home in this drama series written by David Applebaum.
Created By: David Appelbaum
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Mixed or Average
Based on 9 Critic Reviews
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11% Negative
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 9 Critic Reviews
44
0% Positive
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
89% Mixed
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
11% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
There’s enough to like about La Brea that will keep viewers watching, despite the show’s more silly and cheesy elements, especially the mystery of where the “lost” Angelenos are and why they’re there.
One of the characters says it seems like they’re in an episode of “Lost,” and unfortunately, “La Brea” is the latest TV show to borrow from the “Lost” playbook.
User Score
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 13 User Ratings
2.3
8% Positive
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69% Negative
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User Score
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 13 User Ratings
2.3
8% Positive
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1 Rating
23% Mixed
3 Ratings
3 Ratings
69% Negative
9 Ratings
9 Ratings
La Brea is a TV series of the disaster and science fiction genres.
There are 3 good actors in the series:
Natalie Zea as Eve Harris, a mother and wife
Eoin Macken as Gavin Harris, the estranged husband of Eve Harris
Zyra Gorecki as Izzy Harris, the daughter of Eve Harris and Gavin Harris
Zyra Gorecli may be considered the star of the series by many.
There are other actors of average to below average quality. It seems that casting of most of the characters were erratic.
The premise of the series involves the La Brea tar pits area during current time and also around 15,000 B.C. It will be interesting to see how accurate the 15,000 B.C. time period is portrayed.
I think most individuals will find the writing of the script to be of not good quality. David Appelbaum probably shouldn't have produced the final script. What we see is what many would consider a rough draft - that has potential.
I'll continue to view the series. It will be interesting to see if its potential develops.
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SEASON 1
I'm not very good at a lot of things but telling between good TV and total crap isn't one of them. If you made it through episode one without puking, congratulations. If this show makes it past season one, pity should be felt upon Americans. We have truly been zombified. I can't think of a show in the last 10 years with a 99% possibility of failure. La Brea is that show. Don't bother.
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SEASON 1
As great as the series is at raising new questions, however, it’s not at all clear how good it’ll be at answering them. ... La Brea feels too middle-of-the-road to make much impression at all.
While the pilot doesn’t have the immediate adrenalin rush of the first “Lost” (almost nothing on TV does), it does set up just enough to keep viewers engaged. ... There’s also the sad news to report that “La Brea” doesn’t look very good. Now, the cheap effects could be improved by the budget that usually balloons from pilot to second episode, but “La Brea” needs to lean into its insane concept to work.
The shark-jumping occurred in Happy Days' fifth season. But a critic who waits five years to declare a shark jumped these days probably won't have a show left to declare dead; three and a half seasons is now considered a healthy lifespan for a TV series. So let's give mad props to NBC's La Brea, which vaults the Selachimorpha in precisely nine minutes when it debuts next week.
The characters are cutouts, and the primordial predators aren’t remotely frightening because the CGI budget isn’t high enough. It’s not a good show, but perhaps it’s not trying to be – this is popcorn entertainment that will keep you reasonably amused as it barrels along in its own silly way.
It’s tremendously, gloriously, educationally bad.
I couldn't even get past the fact that people survived a fall into a sinkhole with all the debris from the surface falling around and on top of them!
That belittle's the tragic event of 9/11 and all those people that fell to their death and were crushed by the Towers collapse.
Absolute stupidity... garbage concept with soon-to-be garbage scripts and dumpster diving fans of such a mountain of human waste... thank God the production industry will (hopefully) go on strike. I want to see the producers try to make this stupid show on iPhone 13's!
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SEASON 1
Bad writing, poor acting. I wasn't able to stand it any more past the 15 minute mark.Family that I asked and friends agree. It's just awful.
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