❮ Accused (2023)
Season 1
Season Premiere:
Jan 22, 2023
Metascore
Mixed or Average
60
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4.3
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
60
42% Positive
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
50% Mixed
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
8% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
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.
User score
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4.3
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May 11, 2023
1
Really bad. Particularly considering the other shows Howard Gordon and others connected with this series have done previously. Many of the episodes are literal fantasy. Having practiced criminal law for over 40 years most of the outcomes are legally impossible. Do not waste your time. I did for you. One episode after another posts legal situations are that are literally impossible. In both the premier episode and the season (hopefully series) finale men are charged with crimes for acts of omission involving their sons which could not have happened in any court in America.
