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- Apple TV+
- Jul 29, 2022
- Apple TV+
- Jul 29, 2022
Summary Sophie (Gugu Mbatha-Raw) begins to question what she is being told about her life before her head injury from a suicide attempt left her with memory loss in this thriller created by Veronica West.
Created By: Veronica West
- Apple TV+
- Jul 29, 2022
- Apple TV+
- Jul 29, 2022
Summary Sophie (Gugu Mbatha-Raw) begins to question what she is being told about her life before her head injury from a suicide attempt left her with memory loss in this thriller created by Veronica West.
Created By: Veronica West
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 16 Critic Reviews
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19% Positive
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12 Reviews
12 Reviews
6% Negative
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 16 Critic Reviews
49
19% Positive
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
75% Mixed
12 Reviews
12 Reviews
6% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
A a surprisingly fun and engaging game of Clue. ... Surface has the deliciously engaging, nail-biting episodic structure of a suspenseful primetime soap you would’ve watched on ABC in the mid-2000s. The series is also bolstered by an ensemble of captivating performances.
What Surface fails to understand is that it isn’t clever in its lack of clarity. Sure, revelations about Sophie’s previous memories shouldn’t be abundant. But giving nearly nothing to viewers, Surface makes a poor case for itself as anything but fluff TV.
For the first two or three episodes of eight, the series is a reasonably entertaining game. ... By the second half of the series, though, the twists and turns of the game grew tedious, making the shallowness of the characters more obvious. I just wanted to get to the end already. Ultimately, “Surface” was half of a good time, leading to nothing especially satisfying.
There’s no sense of depth or attachment here, all is obvious and shallow and ultimately contrived. Again: Forgettable.
Bogged down with a flat script and a formulaic story that moves at a snail’s pace, Mbatha-Raw is left floundering for the few scraps of nuance to be found in her character.
It's an "elevated soap opera" – Neighbours if it was given a massive budget and had all the fun sapped out of it. ... It just feels like, given Mbatha-Raw's talent and Apple's money, Surface could have been so much more.
As much as we couldn’t take our eyes off Gugu Mbatha-Raw during the first episode of Surface, her performance can’t save a show that doesn’t seem to have enough story to justify an 8-episode series.
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Generally Unfavorable
Based on 5 User Ratings
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User Score
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 5 User Ratings
3.6
20% Positive
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20% Mixed
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60% Negative
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3 Ratings
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