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- Disney+
- Dec 19, 2023
- Disney+
- Dec 19, 2023
Summary 12-year-old Percy Jackson (Walker Scobell) just recently learned he is a demigod when Zeus accuses him of stealing his lightning bolt in the series based on the book series of the same name by Rick Riordan.
Created By: Rick Riordan, Jonathan E. Steinberg
- Disney+
- Dec 19, 2023
- Disney+
- Dec 19, 2023
Summary 12-year-old Percy Jackson (Walker Scobell) just recently learned he is a demigod when Zeus accuses him of stealing his lightning bolt in the series based on the book series of the same name by Rick Riordan.
Created By: Rick Riordan, Jonathan E. Steinberg
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 26 Critic Reviews
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69% Positive
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27% Mixed
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4% Negative
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1 Review
Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 26 Critic Reviews
73
69% Positive
18 Reviews
18 Reviews
27% Mixed
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
4% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
From the casting to the writing to the production design, we get the adaptation of The Lightning Thief that we have been wanting for over a decade to see, and there is nowhere to go but up.
The casting is on point, particularly Simhadri, who brings a lovely gentleness to Grover. .... “Percy Jackson” works for kids and adults thanks in part to the attention to detail in casting those guest stars.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 24 User Ratings
7.3
67% Positive
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17% Mixed
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17% Negative
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User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 24 User Ratings
7.3
67% Positive
16 Ratings
16 Ratings
17% Mixed
4 Ratings
4 Ratings
17% Negative
4 Ratings
4 Ratings
The cinematography and lighting for this show are excellent! The casting is also great and the physical motions of the characters, like the expressions, are fantastic; however, a lot of the line delivery and dialogue feels awkward like a Marvel movie (particularly from the actors that play the mother and Grover). The worst part has GOT to be the music and sound, which Disney chose to outsource to a company (Sparks and Shadows) instead of hiring and relying on an in-house team, and it’s OBVIOUS.
Overall, I think this will be watchable, but not quite as excellent as the source material deserves.
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SEASON 1
Percy Jackson And The Olympians tells a straightforward quest story with good writing and well-defined characters, but takes its time to set up Percy’s story without dragging the show to a halt.
“Percy Jackson and the Olympians” probably won’t be the next big thing, but enough kids will enjoy it, and maybe even learn a bit along the way.
Percy Jackson and the Olympians comes roaring out of the starting gate like a raging minotaur, before settling into a slower-moving groove that plays a little too much like another Harry Potter wannabe, only for demigods instead of wizards. Still generally fun, the Disney+ series doesn’t quite catch lightning in a bottle, but as coming-of-age sagas go this half-blood isn’t half bad.
This show will be fighting to survive in challenging terrain. But in the two episodes provided for review, at least, we’re off to an encouraging start.
The plot points, at least based on the four episodes made available to press for review, map neatly onto the novel. Largely missing from this new adaptation, though, are Percy’s whip-smart, sassy narrative voice, the coherent world-building of the novels, and, most importantly, Riordan’s quicksilver pacing.
Although I'm not the target audience for this show, I find the episode to short, not enough energy or skipping fast over stuff that I deemed important in the book and then expending stupid non-important piece. They seem to want to go with a weird style that everyone is bad or somewhat not so bad, except a few key characters. I'll wait until season finally to see what my final judgment is, but as of now it's a bust.
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SEASON 1