(Quinton's note: Reviewers were given the first eight episodes out of ten.)
RT: 67%
SF Chronicle
Variety
Observer
Hollywood Reporter
NYT
Detroit News
Empire Magazine
Guardian
RT: 67%
SF Chronicle
Season one comes off as a 10-episode pilot for later seasons - one just good enough for us to want to stick with the show. But the sluggish storytelling suggests there were good reasons Asimov's books did not make it to screen before.
Variety
Remixing Asimov's characters, settings and themes into something more timely and fitting for television versus the page, this iteration of "Foundation" thrives most when becoming something all its own.
Observer
The show's starry-eyed ambitions are dulled by its execution. Its scattered focus stalls momentum by introducing and discarding characters like a wad of receipts found in your back pocket after a night on the town.
Hollywood Reporter
Foundation has no evident limitations of any kind, yet no real visceral impact for the most part, because it's almost stultifyingly dull, especially in its middle episodes.
NYT
Beneath the gunplay and C.G.I., there's a much weirder show struggling to get out, about statistics and space popes, decadent clone emperors and millennia-old robots.
Detroit News
"Foundation" jumps back and forth in time and from one world to another as it breaks into myriad storylines. It does initially seem a bit too enthralled with bloated world-building but things pick up as they splinter.
Empire Magazine
While it delivers in both scope and spectacle, Foundation is not for the faint-hearted. This is a slice of rock-hard sci-fi that tickles the intellect with concepts both philosophical and profound.
Guardian
As a new sci-fi show, it would be fine. As a big-budget, flagship production for Apple it looks like a fine opportunity wasted.
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