Season 1 – Aquarius

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08/06/2021 Brilliant show wish there was a season 3 though as it was left on such a cliffhanger See more 01/07/2021 I'm not sure why this show was canceled. Duchovny is at his best as Sam Hodiak - and HOT!! Interesting take on the Manson timeline well. Loved it, wish there were more seasons!! See more susan j @CallMeLulu 09/13/2020 I was looking for a series to watch on Netflix and thought--with the description of the show as well as the promising cast--how could Aquarius be anything but worthwhile? Unfortunately, it is not at all worthwhile given its very poor writing. This month--as I run out of fresh actually good new things to watch--I keep underestimating how essential, and rare, great writing is. The writing of Aquarius is so trite, so draggy, so anachronistic (using slang expressions that didn't come into use for another decade---or conventions of speech that only started being used in the 2000s, like: "I know, right?" and "Wait, what?!") I found myself literally wincing. David Duchovy is physically bloated and seems as bored with the script and production as I. The Charles Manson character is all wrong--with a 2015 haircut and 5 o'clock shadow, wrong hair color, wrong vibe--the show is filled with invented episodes involving Manson, which are silly, overwrought, and dumb. History is continually inverted, revised, and combined from various years and eras and rolled into a ball of mush. Just don't bother. It's as exciting as a bowl of watered down soup that's sat cold on the stove for 4 days. See more 08/31/2020 Great series! There should've been a third season See more 06/18/2019 I cant wrap my head about the rating of this show. I just discovered it recently but I consider it one of the best TV series produced. Amazing acting, writing, everything. Unsuprisingly, Duchovny is an amazing detective, that grows good with age. If you would combine Moody and Muldel, you would get detective Hodiak.. I hope they will renew it. It definetly deserves it See more 05/31/2019 Aquarius is sold as a period piece focusing on the Manson family in the late 60's to their deadly crimes in August of 1969. Duchovny does a decent job of portraying a cop who cuts corners with system while trying to balance an underlying sense of right and wrong. His character provides some humorous quips though the series moves off in too many subplots that are not effectively developed or well thought out. Typically, the writers incessantly fall back to tired, trite and overt identity politic messaging that can make anyone looking for reality in a script cringe. There are not so subtle interjections into character lines borrowed straight from current political figures whom the writers obviously wish to interject. Regardless of one's personal politics that kind of preachy script is both boring, inaccurate and tired. Again, unlike some others I think Duchony's character tries to straddle the line between the two and actually saves some of the poor sub plots in this series. History, particularly that using the series fictional characters is intentionally butchered to reflect a dogmatic good vs evil intonation. The history of the Manson family is also fictionalized to the point of almost absurdity as well. The series has just enough moments for those yearning for a return to the 60's to keep them interested for a year but it fails to reach it's potential. Until Hollywood learns that the historical facts of an era are actually more compelling than their attempts to rewrite it to suit their own agenda these series/movies will fail. See more Read all reviews

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