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Damnation - Season 1
Following the struggles and attempts of Seth Davenport, a young honest preacher in a small town, who prepares a protest against the corrupted figures in the church and the country, the thing that leads a businessman to hire a villain to do what it takes, in order to stop that protest.
27 January 1964, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
27 December 1957, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
5 June 1962, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
27 June 1968, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
27 August 1966, Spokane, Washington, USA
November 06, 2017
It's hampered by being a series that keeps its attentions most frequently honed on the aspect that engages me the least.
November 07, 2017
As the series progresses, you'll find characters linked to each other in ways that might seem unexpected -- or just plain contrived. Still, the show's many swerves make it hard to turn away.
November 06, 2017
Damnation has enough mystery and action to stick around to find out. If you're looking for something along the lines of Hell on Wheels, the USA series might do.
November 07, 2017
It plays its familiar tunes with brisk competence. All this has happened before, and it's happened much less effectively than on Damnation.
November 07, 2017
The series' biggest flaw is conflating serious television with misery - drama can and should also handle joy. Damnation prefers to meditate only on the turds, symbolic or otherwise.
November 07, 2017
Modern relevance and a few good performances are all it has to recommend. It's too often dull, tonally inconsistent, and just poorly written. All the modern political parallels in the world won't matter if the viewer is bored.
November 07, 2017
It can all be a bit heavy-handed, but damned if I'm not intrigued.
November 07, 2017
The result is a bracing look backward informed by present-day parallels, in another show that feels like an outlier for USA -- one that should have critical admirers but might struggle to satisfy TV's capitalist demands.
November 07, 2017
A lot of Damnation feels an awful lot like homework or worse: homework you're forced to do on the sly while sitting in church listening to a sermon.
November 07, 2017
Slow-moving and enamored of its own darkness as Damnation is, there's something vital and real in the show's insistence that the United States' institutions have failed and are only looking out for themselves.

