❮ Channel Zero
Season 1
Season Premiere:
Oct 11, 2016
Metascore
Generally Favorable
75
User score
Generally Favorable
7.4
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
75
80% Positive
4 Reviews
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20% Mixed
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Oct 11, 2016
100
The series runs like clockwork in that nearly every five minutes, in the episodes we were presented, there is a legitimate unsettling scary moment to whet your whistle for terror. The series is sure to go down as a horror classic, so prepare yourself and enter Candle Cove. You won’t regret it.
Oct 26, 2016
80
Channel Zero’s more mundane approach to horror might keep it on the outskirts of popular attention, but the show is all the more compelling for its restraint.
User score
Generally Favorable
7.4
76% Positive
63 Ratings
63 Ratings
10% Mixed
8 Ratings
8 Ratings
14% Negative
12 Ratings
12 Ratings
Nov 12, 2018
10
Not too sure what a lot of the the negative reviews are about, probably people trying to compare this show to other conventional shows. A couple of negative reviews i read hinted at not being able to understand what was happening, and i think this is cus we have other decently good shows like 'Stranger Things' (which is a comparison i keep hearing in my own circles) and other such variables which seem to lay out all the plot points for easy understanding which is not bad at all cus i loved Stranger Things. BUT I Think this this show has much better writing considering quite a lot of the plot points in the first season depends on your own understanding of how things are happening and what your understanding is about human psychology which I absolutely love. Almost every episode I watched held my interest considering i never watched and or heard about the creepypasta tht it is based on, and maybe because of my ignorance of the subject matter it was based on i never could tell where the story was heading and I kept enjoying myself not knowing. Even at the end of the season, which was not the most brilliant of climaxes, but suitable in its own narrative, quite a lot of the 'but why or but how' questions were left up to your interpretation. The acting was excellent all around, and especially the children felt like real kids i know, who are bratty, whiny, noisy and or cry very fast. I loved the story from the angle of a therapist cus his meek and almost calmly thought out way in interacting with all the weird on goings in the season was quite refreshing. MY Only regret is i was kinda putting off watching this show until NOW, thinking that it was just another 'kids going missing under un-natural on-goings' ordeal, and I had just only finished 'Dark' which is another well written show.
Feb 27, 2017
9
There is not much that is original in entertainment anymore, Channel Zero is a welcome and refreshing change from the norm. The first six episodes are one story that was inspired by a "creepy pasta" called Candle Cove. The premise is spooky but the show takes spooky and changes it to outright disturbing, If you liked the Twilight Zone, the X Files, and Paranormal Witness..give this one a go.
Oct 11, 2016
70
Once it gets going, Channel Zero: Candle Cove smartly peels back additional layers of its central mystery so that the audience won’t be satisfied until they finally get to the core of what really happened in Iron Hill all those years ago.
Oct 11, 2016
67
With its thoughtful, understated performances and visuals and its frank embrace of uncertainty, this show should be compulsively watchable. Instead, the repetitive plotting and clumsy scares punctuating Channel Zero: Candle Cove fill a stylish, spooky story with unwelcome static.
Oct 11, 2016
60
Channel Zero might lack a distinct personality of its own to execute a hair-raising, short-form spook fest on the level of its concisely creepy source material, but it has an admirable, all-too-relatable emotional backbone centering on childhood fears, and a range of subtle and in-your-face frights, earning it at least a passing glance on your Halloween watchlist.
Nov 20, 2016
9
An interesting premise, like a Stephen king novel, acting was passable, the monsters creepy and often times disturbing, a definite must see. The lines between innocence and sacrifice meet in-between the horrors and consequence of human nature.
Oct 15, 2016
5
I came int the show with no idea what it was about and found it very confusing plot and some average acting. It has some interesting ideas but they are lost in the confusion.
Jan 30, 2017
4
When I first saw the trailer for this show I was hooked. It looked like a fresh suspenseful new show with promise like Stranger Things with a creepy monster covered with human teeth. When it released, I became excited and began my binge sitting through the 6 episodes only to be completely disappointed about midway through all the way up until the end (I was hoping it would pick up, the story would be explained and it would get better but it didn't AT ALL). After the first 2 episodes it became confusing. Events became unexplained and remained unexplained throughout the entirety of the show, the story was riddled with plot holes EVERYWHERE, the acting was decent at best, and let's not forget to mention the extremely long panning shots that give you enough time to get up to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, play a game of chess and go for a mile run before returning to your seat as the panning has finished. I cannot recommend this show at all. If you think this short 6 episode series is worth a watch, by all means go for it but don't say I didn't warn you.
Dec 27, 2016
2
The show starts off boring and it never properly picks up. The antagonist and the antagonist's helpers are corny. I remember hearing from a friend that there is a constant and regular sense of dread although I was too busy being bothered by the bad storytelling and plot holes. It is a bad show, and even though American Horror Story is a sub-par show, it is inferior to AHS.
