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SCHEDULE
Surface - Season 1 (2005)
A marine biologist, an insurance salesman and a teen-aged boy find their lives fundamentally changed by the emergence of a new, and often dangerous, species of sea life, while government agents work to keep the affair under wraps.
5 July 1988, Van Nuys, California, USA
28 May 1961, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA
31 July 1950, Richmond, Virginia, USA
14 October 1984, USA
December 13, 2018
It comes off as silly sci-fi, a not-so-intriguing series that wades into all-too-similar waters.
December 13, 2018
The wettest of the "Lost" wannabes.
December 13, 2018
Doesn't succeed in evoking much creepiness or wonder.
December 13, 2018
The stern-faced Lake Bell's independent-minded oceanographer is too conventional a protagonist, while the series' government cover-up thread feels globally warmed over.
December 13, 2018
While the pilot is careful not to reveal too much about the creature(s), the human characters seem engaging enough.
December 13, 2018
This one is the soggiest of several open-ended mystery sagas this year.
December 13, 2018
The government wants to hush up what's going on. Whatever. Surface tells the mystery in such a scattershot way that viewers might not care about the answer.
December 13, 2018
[Lake Bell] brings her own sort of charisma and cockiness to the series' mundane table. Maybe she'll see her way out.
December 13, 2018
It builds and builds and builds just about everything but interest.
December 13, 2018
It's hard to take a bad shot of Lake Bell, but the show does what it can to diminish her considerable charms by saddling her with a kid and then shoving her into a submarine.
December 13, 2018
Abyss-mal.
December 13, 2018
It is a Spielberg pastiche through and through but it is an excellent one, and an improvement in some ways on that tired master: less sentimental, more authentically down to earth, not so darn big.