EPISODE
American Odyssey - Season 1
After an attack on her unit, Sergeant Odelle Ballard becomes the sole survivor and must make the grueling journey back home. Meanwhile, former U.S. Attorney-turned-B.I. Pete Decker uncovers corruption in the private sector at his new job. Three families are torn apart when a stranded female soldier, a disillusioned corporate attorney and a disrespected political activist are pulled into the same shocking international military conspiracy.
11 September 1954, Alexandria, Virginia, USA
20 February 1987, Oakland, California, USA
18 August 1977, Baghdad, Iraq
27 September 1959, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
30 December 1957, New York City, New York, USA
9 April 1963, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
April 06, 2015
NBC's American Odyssey is packed with military secrets, corporate espionage and political drama, but the show's real draw is star Anna Friel.
April 02, 2015
Overpacked story in the opener, but American Odyssey is still very ambitious and very different.
June 29, 2015
It was like someone had cut up broadsheet newspapers from recent years and glued bits randomly to the script, making the whole thing lack cohesion. Homeland it certainly isn't.
April 06, 2015
American Odyssey is the umpteenth attempt at this format and giving it a conspiracy plot backbone - another tired plot device - only makes the show more pat.
April 07, 2015
Conspiracy theorists will love American Odyssey, and everyone else should, too.
March 31, 2015
To be blunt, the bar is higher to clear than it was ten or certainly twenty years ago, when a show like American Odyssey would have felt like something new.
April 02, 2015
American Odyssey has pulling power, if you'll give it a fair shot. Fair warning, through: it also has some telegraphed developments and a few rather preposterous ones. You'll likely know them when you see them.
April 06, 2015
A tough-minded melodrama that's uneven but never less than intelligent, American Odyssey keeps its best subplot front and center.
April 02, 2015
Judged by a lower standard, the series is an average broadcast action drama.
April 06, 2015
The problem is, there are three tales embedded in its framework, which includes familiar elements - the tension of 24 and the intrigue of Homeland - that add up to something less than the sum of its parts.
