Accused (2023)
Season 1 Premiere:
Jan 22, 2023
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60
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4.8
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Jan 26, 2023
80
Kudos to Fox for attempting something this ambitious and, more often than not, riveting and even heartbreaking at times. [30 Jan - 12 Feb 2023, p.8]
Jan 18, 2023
75
Over the first five episodes that were presented to critics for review, the show largely lives up to its billing as a promising freshman series, telling a diverse array of stories that illustrate the blurring divide between guilt and innocence in today’s world.
Jan 20, 2023
65
[The “Accused” premiere] made me want to see Chiklis in a series again, maybe playing against his tough-guy type. Future episodes deliver diminishing returns.
Jan 20, 2023
60
It's broadcast television for those looking for something deeper than broadcast television, and cable television for those who don't have the attention span.
Jan 23, 2023
50
Even though “Accused” moves from city to city and case to case each week, and there are different directors behind the camera, there’s a certain sameness to the visual tones; the series has the competent but not particularly stylish look of a crime procedural from the 1990s.
Jan 19, 2023
50
There’s not enough ballast, enough sense of who these characters are outside the most extreme moments of their lives, to keep the show balanced. One remembers a function lawyers and judges play on shows like these: They’re old pros who’ve seen it all, and so correct for the defendants’ tendencies to experience wild emotional swings. Those swings, on “Accused,” are watchable and a lot of fun, but they also mean the show sheds more heat than light.
Jan 17, 2023
30
In the short time on hand, the series can’t escape its courtroom framing and so its protagonists end up more as numbers on a case file than complex individuals. And the crimes in each episode, however terrible, do not create intrigue or cause fright. They do disturb, but “Accused” does nothing with the discomfort it causes, making the whole exercise feel cheap and tawdry. What a waste.
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Mar 30, 2023
0
Really bad, and even more unforgiveable because the British show it is based on is very good and the two executive producers are the guys who did HOMELAND. That just makes the tripe, and utterly predictable garbage all the more unbearable. Almost every single episode is a social justice screed, in the worst possible way; whether it's for gay people, people with disabilities, racial minorities.
Episode 10 is such an obvious rip=off the Charlottlesville, Virginia murder, yet spun backwards.
This is really rip off TV at its worst.
Jan 30, 2023
0
This is melodramatic garbage. Especially the deaf episode. Only deaf people seem to want to remain disabled. You never hear blind people refusing an operation/treatment that would restore their sight. It's ridiculous and this show would have you believe that parents who want to do whatever they can for their child, including surgery so they could hear, are abusive. That a deaf lady kidnapping their infant child is a hero. Ironic that if the parents said their kid was trans and someone kidnapped them claiming it was child abuse to put an infant on hormones, people would applaud the parents.
Production Company:
- All3Media America
- Teakwood Lane Productions
- Sony Pictures Television Studios
- Fox Entertainment
- Cherry Pie Productions
- Shore Z Productions
Initial Release Date:Jan 22, 2023
Number of seasons:2 Seasons
Rating:TV-14
Awards
Astra Television Awards
• 3 Nominations
Seoul International Drama Awards
• 2 Nominations
Canadian Society of Cinematographers Awards
• 2 Nominations
