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His Dark Materials - Season 1
Lyra is an orphan girl who doesn't know anything about her parents. When she goes searching for her kidnapped friend, she discovers information about her parents that leads her to uncover a dangerous plot against many children. Lyra and the brave boy Will, go through an exciting adventure against the evil powers.
7 April 1952, New York City, New York, USA
23 August 1983, Canterbury, Kent, England, UK
5 June 2002, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
15 March 1981, Maidstone, Kent, England, UK
14 July 1985, London, England, UK
5 March 1976, UK
13 March 1989, London, England, UK
1973, London, England, UK
13 February 1933, Finsbury Park, London, England, UK
1977, Zimbabwe
1958, Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland, UK
29 July 1984
30 September 1965, London, England, UK
22 July 1938, Stepney, London, England, UK
October 31, 2019
What a screen adaptation of Pullman's books was truly meant to be... It fully realizes the scope of this fictional world with grand visuals, an adventurous plot, smart writing, and excellent casting.
October 31, 2019
His Dark Materials' first episodes are a mixture of unabashedly gorgeous visuals, several strong performances, and writing that demonstrates time and again that it has no confidence in either of those things.
November 01, 2019
Proof that TV is now the best medium for bringing epic literary fantasy to the screen.
November 01, 2019
I suppose this is a recommendation, though I reiterate. If high fantasy isn't your thing, watching this is definitely going to feel like work.
November 01, 2019
For a show in which people have visible, tangible souls, 'His Dark Materials' own soul is awfully hard to find.
November 01, 2019
Visually, it's Art Deco meets steampunk, with the airships and canal barges feeling a little less fresh than when this world first tumbled from Pullman's rich imagination; but his themes are ever-pertinent.
October 16, 2019
While His Dark Materials is not, on the basis of the first episode, an all-out extravaganza, it is a fine piece of drama, capturing the strangeness and childlike wonder of the books, but also their rigour and bite. This is intelligent populism writ large.
October 31, 2019
In short, this is the adaptation fans have been waiting two decades to see.
November 01, 2019
His Dark Materials seems like a daemon who hasn't settled on a form quite yet, and that's oddly endearing in its own way, too. For now.
November 01, 2019
What never fully worked for me in the four episodes, out of the eight-episode first season, sent to critics is the necessary feeling of narrative and thematic momentum. It's vastly better than the movie, but neither fun nor smart enough to quite succeed.
November 03, 2019
The show has a lot of ambition and spectacle, but the story struggles. [Full Review in Spanish]
November 01, 2019
It's a good story, told with restraint and respect. Pity about the magic, though.
