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  • FOX
  • Oct 6, 2020
  • FOX
  • Oct 6, 2020
neXt (2020)

Summary Former tech CEO Paul Leblanc (Slattery) works with a Homeland Cybersecurity Agent Shea Salazar (Fernanda Andrade) to stop an digital assistant run by artificial intelligence that begins killing people in this thriller created by Manny Coto and inspired by his family's experience with an Amazon Alexa device.

Created By: Manny Coto

  • FOX
  • Oct 6, 2020
  • FOX
  • Oct 6, 2020
neXt (2020)
Season 1
Season Premiere: Oct 6, 2020
Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 15 Critic Reviews
58
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 11 User Ratings
6.6
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Summary Former tech CEO Paul Leblanc (Slattery) works with a Homeland Cybersecurity Agent Shea Salazar (Fernanda Andrade) to stop an digital assistant run by artificial intelligence that begins killing people in this thriller created by Manny Coto and inspired by his family's experience with an Amazon Alexa device.

Created By: Manny Coto

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Episode 1 • Oct 6, 2020 • 45 m
FILE #1
Silicon Valley pioneer Paul LeBlanc joins forces with Special Agent Shea Salazar after a series of tech mishaps places the world in danger; Paul juggles his health and family life; Shea's son experiences bullying at school.
Episode 2 • Oct 13, 2020 • 43 m
FILE #2
After being mishandled, NEXT escapes the confined servers of its home company and gains internet access. Shea recruits Paul and her co-workers to track NEXT's possible location. Paul attempts to rekindle his relationship with his daughter.
Episode 3 • Oct 29, 2020 • 44 m
FILE #3
Episode 4 • Nov 17, 2020 • 43 m
FILE #4
Shea and LeBlanc recruit Ben, Gina and C.M. to help decrypt a stolen hard drive while NEXT attempts to hinder their progress; Ted and his Zava team put in extra effort to locate NEXT.
Episode 5 • Nov 23, 2020 • 43 m
FILE #5
Next orchestras a dangerous reunion for Shea and someone from her past. Ted is in trouble with Zava and tries to find a way to stay in the company. LeBlanc gets honest. C.M.'s life is in danger.
Episode 6 • Nov 30, 2020 • 44 m
FILE #6
She saves Ethan from extreme danger. Ty makes a difficult decision about his family's safety. LeBlanc battles his degenerative brain disease. C.M. and Gina escape the hospital.
Episode 7 • Dec 10, 2020 • 44 m
FILE #7
LeBlanc and Shea race to stop Ted's plan for NEXT. Ben and Gina investigate NEXT's latest victims which appears to be a freak accident. Shea reaches her breaking point.
Episode 8 • Dec 17, 2020 • 43 m
FILE #8
Next causes an elderly couple to get lost by manipulating GPS data. LeBlanc tries to plant a virus on the server but must break in to ZAVA first. Shea and Ty disagree on how to protect their family.
Episode 9 • Dec 22, 2020 • 44 m
FILE #9
NEXT targets Congresswoman Beatty again when Agent Shea Salazar seeks her help to stop it. Shea discovers a leak within her team, as Gina encounters trouble while trying to code the virus into an NSA server.
Episode 10 • Dec 22, 2020 • 44 m
FILE #10
NEXT taunts LeBlanc with a new tactic relating to his illness and Shea and LeBlanc devise one last dangerous ploy to destroy NEXT, and save their lives, their families and the world.

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 15 Critic Reviews
58
47% Positive
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53% Mixed
8 Reviews
0% Negative
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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 15 Critic Reviews
58
47% Positive
7 Reviews
53% Mixed
8 Reviews
0% Negative
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90
Oct 12, 2020
That's the key to Next: the vastness and invisibility of an enemy that's woven itself into our world with insidious intent, not unlike Joe McCarthy's communists or Don Siegel's pods.
By Glenn Garvin FULL REVIEW
80
Oct 9, 2020
Slattery elevates the pulp melodrama with crisp, ironic detachment. [12 - 25 Oct 2020, p.9]
By Matt Roush FULL REVIEW
67
Oct 6, 2020
It’s surprising “neXt” ends up with as much potential as it has. Clearly, no one has any idea what the coming months will bring, so the more that “neXt” sticks to what it can control, the better off it should fare.
By Steve Greene FULL REVIEW
50
Oct 2, 2020
Slattery is fine in this bland AI thriller.
By Verne Gay FULL REVIEW
50
Oct 1, 2020
“Next” finds smart ways to illustrate the full breadth of neXt’s capabilities. ... In these moments, “Next” becomes a surprisingly effective horror thriller, with each episode finding new ways to convey just how catastrophic this technology could be. It’s a shame, then, that “Next” isn’t this streamlined throughout. In its attempts to flesh out the world and characters it’s portraying, the show keeps throwing in more complications and backstory that threaten to swallow the rest of the stories whole.
By Caroline Framke FULL REVIEW
40
Oct 6, 2020
If it's a crazy artificial intelligence series you're looking for, hunt down Person of Interest, which at least figured a way to give its maniacal machine a personality and relatable decision making progress. Next is too much artificial, not enough intelligence.
By Tim Surette FULL REVIEW
40
Oct 6, 2020
The best thing I can say about NEXT is that it moves breathlessly, building momentum in 24 fashion. ... By the time the series gets to its third or fourth episodes, the writers seem to have run out of ways to make inanimate objects scary and the bad guys are people basically brainwashed by the AI into going after our heroes. ... Nothing here is smart enough to stick. It's a distraction cosplaying as prescient.
By Daniel Fienberg FULL REVIEW

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Generally Favorable Based on 11 User Ratings
6.6
55% Positive
6 Ratings
36% Mixed
4 Ratings
9% Negative
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55% Positive
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36% Mixed
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9% Negative
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