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  • A&E
  • Jan 15, 2009
  • A&E
  • Jan 15, 2009

Summary An FBI agent with uncouth yet effective tactics is played by Patrick Swayze on A&E's The Beast. Charles Barker (Swayze) trains new partner Ellis Dove (Travis Fimmel). Baker imparts his hard-driving and slick methods even while an internal affairs squad is investigating him. The troublemaker veteran makes his new partner sweat as the...

  • A&E
  • Jan 15, 2009
  • A&E
  • Jan 15, 2009
The Beast
Season 1
Season Premiere: Jan 15, 2009
Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 25 Critic Reviews
51
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 5 User Ratings
7.6
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Summary An FBI agent with uncouth yet effective tactics is played by Patrick Swayze on A&E's The Beast. Charles Barker (Swayze) trains new partner Ellis Dove (Travis Fimmel). Baker imparts his hard-driving and slick methods even while an internal affairs squad is investigating him. The troublemaker veteran makes his new partner sweat as the...

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Season Episodes

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Episode 1 • Jan 15, 2009 • 48 m
Pilot
Episode 2 • Jan 22, 2009 • 45 m
Two Choices
Episode 3 • Jan 29, 2009 • 45 m
Nadia
Episode 4 • Feb 5, 2009 • 45 m
Infected
Episode 5 • Feb 12, 2009 • 44 m
Bitsy Big-Boy
Barker and Dove are asked to protect nuclear physicist May Nan Nhung after five FBI agents are gunned down trying to protect her and are asked to get her to a NNSA hearing where she is to testify.
Episode 6 • Feb 19, 2009 • 45 m
Hothead
Ellis goes undercover as a rogue army veteran at a security company to locate FBI agent Frank Oland who has gone dark for six months.
Episode 7 • Feb 26, 2009 • 45 m
Capone
Episode 8 • Mar 5, 2009 • 1 h
Mercy
Barker goes undercover as a homeless marine vet to try and find out who is killing young homeless vets. Ex-marine Ellis tries to gain information from the VA Hospital Marine records room on the dead marines.
Episode 9 • Mar 19, 2009 • 45 m
The Walk In
Barker and Dove go undercover at a Chicago University to try and expose Dr. Warren Shelby who is believed to be selling US defense intelligence to the Chinese. But uncovering evidence is not as easy as it seems.
Episode 10 • Mar 26, 2009 • 45 m
Tilt
Episode 11 • Apr 9, 2009 • 45 m
My Brother's Keeper
Episode 12 • Apr 16, 2009 • 45 m
Counterfeit
Episode 13 • Apr 23, 2009 • 44 m
No Turning Back

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 25 Critic Reviews
51
24% Positive
6 Reviews
56% Mixed
14 Reviews
20% Negative
5 Reviews

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 25 Critic Reviews
51
24% Positive
6 Reviews
56% Mixed
14 Reviews
20% Negative
5 Reviews

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70
Patrick Swayze’s performance as an ungoverned F.B.I. man in The Beast, a new crime drama beginning on Thursday on A&E, is impressive for its resistance to cliche and remarkable for the mere fact of its execution.
By Ginia Bellafante FULL REVIEW
63
The Beast is weighted down by a concept that was already tired when Moses was a teenager -wizened, jaded rogue cop teaches rookie the ways of the streets and blah, blah, blah. But Swayze brings to the role, as Rourke did in "The Wrestler," the kind of seriousness that only real-life suffering can impart.
By Linda Stasi FULL REVIEW
60
Barker is written as the stereotypical rogue cop who crosses the line into illegality, but Swayze's presence is complex enough to add mystery and weight that aren't in the script....[but] take Swayze and his gravitas out of the picture, and The Beast is a mediocre series that would probably lurk on the cable TV lineup without much notice.
By Matthew Gilbert FULL REVIEW
60
The action often is energetic and intriguing but is sometimes brought down by Fimmel's uneven performance. The rest of the supporting cast acquits itself well, and Swayze manages to bring the words of scribes Vincent Angell and William L. Rotko to menacing life.
By Ray Richmond FULL REVIEW
50
We could be spending our time reading better hardboiled yarns from fresh tough-guy novelists like Charles S. Houston or Duane Swierczynski. In fact, I'd rather watch an hour of ?Swayze reading one of their tales aloud than sit through an episode of The Beast.
FULL REVIEW
37
Clearly, the show is aiming for urban grit. But that's hard to achieve when you're constantly distracting us with a ludicrous plot.
By Robert Bianco FULL REVIEW
10
The Beast is singularly unimaginative, a collection of set-pieces barely bound together by a narrative thread, substituting attitude for substance and coyness for coherence.
By Glenn Garvin FULL REVIEW

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User Score
Generally Favorable Based on 5 User Ratings
7.6
80% Positive
4 Ratings
0% Mixed
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20% Negative
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80% Positive
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20% Negative
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