> Critic Reviews of Farscape,
the Television Series
> Critic Reviews of Farscape: The Peacekeeper
Wars
The Television Series ...
"...one of TV's best dramas - not just best sci-fi,
but best drama, period."
--Diane Werts, Newsday
"Four out of four stars. Watch this show."
--New York Post
"Exciting, clever, startling, sexy, with violent clashes
and emotional climaxes that are equally satisfying..."
--Matt Roush, TV Guide
"TV's smartest sci-fi series is also the sexiest."
--Entertainment Weekly
"A grungier, sexier take on the space frontier."
--LA Times
"Farscape remains the genre's brightest beacon. No
other series takes the chances or confounds viewer expectations
the way Farscape does. Experimentation yielded surprising,
heart-wrenching results… Good stuff."
--Rob Owen, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
"...the most irreverent, unpredictable, sexy, intelligent
and exciting sci fi show on TV ... incredible chemistry
... some of the most vivid and compelling fantasy creatures
ever created ... a joy to watch ..."
--TV Guide
“Farscape remains the best show on TV because it's
unpredictable, because actions have consequences and because
nothing stays the same from week to week. If a disaster
strikes one week, it's not forgotten the next, and the writers
have constantly surprised viewers. This is a rare series
that puts a single human being in a universe of aliens."
--Dave Mason, Ventura County Star
"...bold stories, movie-quality special effects, superb
acting and bizarre aliens...extraor-dinary. The best science-fiction
series on TV. If there is a status quo, Farscape breaks
it as the Coolest Show on Television."
--Boston Herald
"...Exotic...impressive...primed for action."
-- San Francisco Chronicle
"Farscape is more than just TV’s best space
show..."
--USA Today
"The richness of the storytelling radiates…most
of all, there's a humanity that's heart-rending."
--Diane Werts, Newsday
”It's literally ‘Stranger in A Strange Land’
(though it's unrelated to that Robert Heinlein novel). Farscape
is a metaphor for the alienation that people experience
and our efforts to connect with one another despite it."
-- Dave Mason, Ventura County Star
"The Coolest Show on Television"
-Boston Herald
"Addictive…top-notch…witty."
--San Francisco Chronicle
"Each week, its mixture of humor and drama and its richness of character
and theme are a delight. Ben Browder, as the displaced space traveler, plays serious
scenes as well as he plays comedy, and he plays comedy superbly. The entire cast
is multitalented...A delight."
--New York Daily News
"…stunningly theatrical production values…striking
dramatic substance… a behavioral dynamic that raises
the emotional stakes to extremes. Crichton is utterly alone
in space. So are the ragtag cohorts with whom he falls in
on the living ship Moya - escaped prisoners or renegades
in their own worlds, each searching for something, living
without rules but with their own individual senses of morality,
which may or may not dovetail with anyone else's. With the
aliens on equal footing with the human, their characters
vibrantly manifest their own aspirations and agendas. They're
often at cross-purposes. They act on passions and prejudices,
which makes for intense entertainment. Even the animatronic
characters from the Jim Henson Creature Shop can be astonishingly
expressive…"
--Diane Werts, Newsday
"The finest science-fiction show in all of television."
--Cleveland Plain Dealer
"...Eye-catching and energetic, ... lotsa fun."
--Dallas Morning News
"Visually exciting... a quality production..."
--Oakland Tribune
"Simply spectacular..."
--Desert News
"By breaking all the rules, the producers and cast
of Farscape have given television a new kind of space opera.
It's more honest, more emotional, and a lot more exciting.
"
-Nathan Alderman, teevee.org
"Farscape not only twists the standard formulas, it
takes me to task for believing that the old formulas should
exist."
--Rachel Hughes, shelikesdvds.com
"Smart, sexy and intelligent."
--Charlie McCollum, San Jose Mercury News
"Out of this world (how could we resist) Sci-Fi at
its best."
--Jerry Krudnick, The Star-Ledger
"...a groundbreaking show that emphasizes intelligent
story telling and character development…"
--Bill Ferguson, The Macon Telegraph
"Easily the best show on TV."
--Bedford Times Mail
"I've never seen a TV series that's quite like "Farscape."
The show deserves a fifth season and beyond."
--Mike Brantley, Mobile Register
"Each episode is breathlessly paced, crammed with
rapid-fire dialogue and subtle details that reward multiple
viewings. At least once every act, the plot or the characters
take a hard left turn into the unexpected. Trying to guess
how any given episode will end-- even at the end of the
third act-- is an easy way to lose a bet...."
--Nathan Alderman, teevee.org
"The best show on television to ever be unjustly cancelled...
It’s the most creative, risky, beautiful, and sometimes
moving show ever to hit television..."
--Joshua Tyler, cinemablend.com
"The creative team behind the show has worked with
love, courage, and terrific imagination to present a show
that ignored the formulas, broke the rules, and took sci-fi
television in new and fascinating directions."
--Shane Ivey and the staff of RevolutionSF, revolutionsf.com
"The show's Henson contingent isn't thrown any softballs,
character-wise. They have backstories, regrets, and character
flaws, all performed with a skill and subtlety most human
actors would kill for... The villains are the icing on the
cake... meaty, lip-smacking nasties with genuine personality
and menace."
--Nathan Alderman, teevee.org
“Adored by millions, praised by critics, Farscape
combines heart-pounding storylines and award-caliber acting
to create one of television's most daring and popular shows."
--tvshowsondvd.com
The Peacekeeper Wars ...
"Watching Farscape:The Peacekeeper Wars you find yourself
responding emotionally not just to the grand courage, the
soaring romance and the giddy wit of its space heroes ....
You're also overcome by the creative brilliance of Farscape's gifted
writer-producers, who achieve such epic effects on a small screen and
in such a compressed time frame....
So, with all that said, how's the show?
In a word, spectacular."
--Matt Roush, TV Guide
"‘The Peacekeeper Wars’ elegant special effects,
touching interpersonal relationships, engrossing drama and
explosive action are nothing short of dazzling."
--Melanie McFarland, Seattle Post-Intelligencer
"… nothing less than the sort of epic mythology, battles,
quests and morals explored in George Lucas' "Star Wars."…
this new miniseries does it just as well - maybe better. …
"Farscape" has returned, not with a vengeance, but with a triumph."
--David Bianculli, NY Daily News
"... the most innovative, colourful, daring genre show
on the air ...With the production standards of a big feature film,
The Peacekeeper Wars is television of the highest standard. This is
the genre highlight of the year ... This is Science Fiction television
like we've never seen it before: grand, operatic, effects-laden action,
underscored by multi-faceted characters for which we care. Compare it to
the latest Star Wars trilogy, and it's clear that the Farscape production
team are already beating Lucas at his own game ... This is everything
that we hoped Farscape was building towards, not just in terms of the
big picture, but also in the journey of each of its characters ...
It's also crazy, profound, sexy, romantic, brutal, tragic, funny and
absolutely frelling perfect."
-- David Richardson, Starburst
"without a doubt the best science fiction feature film
to be released this year… with more twists and turns than any
single "Indiana Jones" adventure… the miniseries is so satisfying that …
it will leave all viewers … with a sense that they have witnessed
something truly wondrous"
--Mark A. Rivera, genreonline.net
"Gorgeously epic ... pulsating battle action whizzing past...
eye-popping special effects of astonishing scope...clever maturity...
In this lavish four-hour series finale, one of the tube's richest
character dramas does a dazzling job wrapping the lost-in-space
odyssey of its cool cowboy astronaut."
--Diane Werts, Newsday
"hair-raising adventure, hairbreadth escapes and general
lunacy...complex, character-driven story, broad humor, rollicking
adventure, and some of the most dazzling aliens ever seen on the
large or small screen"
--Kate O'Hare, zap2it.com
"Has any science-fiction show ever looked this good? ...
some of the most imaginative visuals ever captured on the small screen ...
Black and Browder share a prickly chemistry that is a pleasure to watch.
Their dialogue crackles ... a satisfying coda to one of
TV's most thrilling, original series."
-- Mark Perigard, Boston Herald
"The drama is so sweeping, the wit so amusing, and the action
so furious, that all you need to do is surrender yourself to this
fantastic, crazy world and you’ll see the best TV has to offer
over the course of four hours."
-- Jeanne Jakle, San Antonio Express News
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