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Alcatraz: Season 1 (2012)

TOMATOMETER

60%
56%

AUDIENCE SCORE

33%

Critic Consensus: Though it involves a mysterious and intriguing premise, Alcatraz delivers the plot through lumbering, humorless means.

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When San Francisco Detective Rebecca Madsen (Sarah Jones) is assigned to a grisly homicide case, a fingerprint leads her to a shocking suspect: an Alcatraz inmate who died over 30 years ago. Once the enigmatic, knows-everything-but-tells-nothing government agent Emerson Hauser (Sam Neill) tries to impede her investigation, Madsen turns to Alcatraz expert Dr. Diego "Doc" Soto (Jorge Garcia), to help her piece together the inexplicable sequence of events. By delving into Alcatraz history, government cover-ups and Rebecca's own heritage, the team will ultimately discover that this reappearance is only a small part of a much larger, more sinister present-day threat. For while he may be the first, it quickly becomes clear that this fugitive won't be the last to reappear from Alcatraz.

Cast

Sarah Jones
as Det. Rebecca Madsen
Jorge Garcia
as Diego "Doc" Soto
Sam Neill
as Emerson Hauser
Parminder Nagra
as Lucy Banerjee
Robert Forster
as Ray Archer
Santiago Cabrera
as Jimmy Dickens
Jason Butler Harner
as E.B. Tiller
Jonathan Coyne
as Edwin James
Adam Rothenberg
as Johnny McKee
Greg Ellis
as Garrett Stillman
Joe Egender
as Ernest Cobb
Theo Rossi
as Sonny Burnett
Michael Ecklund
as Kit Nelson
Jim Parrack
as Guy Hastings
Mahershala Ali
as Clarence Montgomery
David Hoflin
as Tommy Madsen
Eric Johnson
as Cal Sweeney
Rami Malek
as Webb Porter
Jonny Coyne
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Critic Reviews for Alcatraz: Season 1

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Alcatraz delivers a mystery but could use a little light.

January 16, 2012 | Full Review…
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Happily, there are reasons to watch Alcatraz, starting with an appealing cast and a premise that really does not require a college degree in the mythology of other worlds.

January 16, 2012 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
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This is a series that's seemingly built on an arresting foundation.

January 16, 2012 | Rating: B | Full Review…
Top Critic

Think Prison Break meets Lost meets Cold Case.

January 16, 2012 | Full Review…
Top Critic

Alcatraz is a sinister bag of sinister pleasures.

January 16, 2012 | Full Review…
Top Critic

It was a dark and stormy night - and a weird, fun, trippy one, too.

January 16, 2012 | Rating: B+ | Full Review…
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