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Believe - Pilot episode (TV)

Believe - Pilot episode

2014

Alfonso Cuarón

Johnny Sequoyah, Jake McLaughlin, Delroy Lindo, Kyle MacLachlan ...

5.3

386

Fantasy. Sci-Fi. Drama Levitation, telekinesis, the ability to control nature, even predict the future... since she was two years old, Bo has had gifts she could neither fully understand nor control. Raised by a small group known as the "True Believers," the orphaned girl has been safeguarded from harmful outsiders who would use her forces for personal gain. But now that she is 10, her powers have become stronger, and the threat has grown more dangerous. With ... [+]

	Media	Author	Review
		Hank Stuever The Washington Post	"'Believe' works best as a relentless chase scene. The first episode (...) has some limberness to its movement, but, like so much else in this particular genre, produces a lukewarm result."
		Robert Bianco USA Today	"Monday's premiere moves swiftly and surely (...) Yet for all those flourishes, nothing really shakes that feeling that it's all been done before and it won't end well. (...) Rating: ★★½ (out of four)"
		David Wiegand SFGATE	"The chase scenes are great, a special-effects scene toward the end of the episode is great, but the mix of action-suspense, supernatural and schmaltz doesn't quite blend well."

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