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Critic Consensus: The Alienist boats an impressive cast and superb production design, but a sluggish pace and too many tropes keep it from truly standing out in an overcrowded genre.
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Cast
as Dr. Laszlo Kreizler
as John Moore
as Sara Howard
as Theodore Roosevelt
as Marcus Isaacson
as Cyrus
as Mary
as Stevie Taggert
as Lucius Isaacson
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Critic Reviews for The Alienist: Season 1
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Squalor and sleuthing are blended with sadistic verve.
Fanning is strikingly good as Sara, her face radiating an innocent glow as it lifts like a sunflower towards the Doctor.
I found it hugely enjoyable, a quite unexpected treat, a beguiling amalgam of truthfully felt family drama and an exciting sci-fi survival adventure series.
The Alienist spends more time telling you what's going on beneath the surface than allowing for any real depth to emerge.
The result is a series that has all of the brooding intensity of Fukunaga's HBO show, but little of the necessary narrative energy to pull it off.
What must have come to life in the pages of the book struggles to find so much as a spark on the screen -- difficult, admittedly, through the pall of smoke and shadows that tend to choke it.
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