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Dr. Brain (TV Series)

Dr. Brain

2021

Kim Jee-woon

Lee Sun-Kyun, Lee You-young, Park Hee-soon, Moon Sung-keun ...

5.6

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TV Series. Mystery. Sci-Fi. Thriller TV Series (2021). 1 Season. 6 Episodes. Brilliant brain scientist Sewon (Lee Sun-Kyun) suffers a horrific personal tragedy. Desperate to uncover what happened to his family, he conducts "brain syncs" with the dead to access their memories for clues.

	Author	Review
United States	Nguyen Le Paste Magazine	"Dr. Brain Conducts Big Thrills with Sleek Imagery and Nimble Storytelling (...) a handshake between Inception and Flatliners"	POS
United States	Saloni Gajjar AV Club	"An intriguing blend of imaginative science fiction and mystery (...) Dr. Brain is so compelling, it doesn’t necessarily matter that the final answers to all the twists aren’t very surprising or complicated."	POS
United States	Steve Greene IndieWire	"Aside from brief sparks of genuinely disturbing ideas, much of the rest of the season plays out like a run-of-the-mill detective story"	NEU
United States	Mike Hale The New York Times	"The real barrier to entry for some viewers may be the sentimentality of the season’s beginning and ending (...) But Kim pours on less syrup than the norm, and for most of its run, “Dr. Brain” is a classy and absorbing entertainment."	POS
United States	Daniel Fienberg The Hollywood Reporter	"For a show with a wild central premise and a goofily brazen title, nothing here rises to the level of wildness that the show is teasing, nor is there the sort of grounding that could work as an alternative"	NEG
United States	Joel Keller Decider	"A well-written exploration of science that perhaps goes too far, especially in the hands of someone so curious. We just hope it keeps that interesting premise"	POS
Canada	Peter Martin Screen Anarchy	"Victor Frankenstein would approve (...) A superior and enveloping thriller that constantly jabs at the viewer's kidneys"	POS
United States	Matthew Monagle The Playlist	"[It] will find a willing audience among North American genre fans. But for a series predicated on the fantastical, there's a sense that too much in 'Dr. Brain' is meant to play it safe"	NEU

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