Hunters (TV series)

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Hunters
Genre Science fiction
Created by <templatestyles src="Plainlist/styles.css"/>
  • Natalie Chaidez
Based on Alien Hunter by Whitley Strieber
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Composer(s) Andy Gray
Country of origin United States
Original language(s) English
No. of seasons 1
No. of episodes 13 (On Air)
Production
Executive producer(s) <templatestyles src="Plainlist/styles.css"/>
Production location(s) Melbourne, Australia
Camera setup Single-camera
Production company(s) Valhalla Entertainment[1]
Universal Cable Productions
Release
Original network Syfy
Original release April 11, 2016 (2016-04-11) –
present
External links
Website

Hunters is an American television drama series starring Nathan Phillips and Britne Oldford. The series was ordered by Syfy in September 2014 with a straight 13-episode pick up.[1] The series is written by Natalie Chaidez and is based on Whitley Strieber’s best-selling novel Alien Hunter and centers around the disappearance of a decorated Philadelphia cop’s wife.[2] The series is produced in Melbourne, Australia.[3] The series premiered on Syfy on April 11, 2016. The series originally premiered at 10/9c before the final six episodes were abruptly moved to Tuesday nights at midnight.

Each episode takes its title from a different song by the British band Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark.

Cast

Episodes

No. Title Directed by Teleplay by Original air date U.S. viewers
(millions)
1 "The Beginning & The End" Ernest R. Dicerson & Emile Levisetti Natalie Chaidez April 11, 2016 (2016-04-11) 0.54[7]
Alien hunters kidnap the wife of FBI agent Flynn Carroll, who is recruited by the Exo-Terrorism Unit (ETU) to deal with the emerging threat to humanity.
2 "Messages" Glendyn Ivin Ron Milbauer & Terri Hughes Burton April 18, 2016 (2016-04-18) 0.43[8]
Flynn and his partner, Allison Regan, who also happens to be an alien, track down Lionel McCarthy, the exo-terrorist responsible for his wife's kidnapping.
3 "Maid of Orleans" Rowan Woods Natalie Chaidez April 25, 2016 (2016-04-25) 0.40[9]
An ETU team plays cat and mouse with a new form of hunter in the jungles of Mexico; Allison's background is shown in flashbacks.
4 "Love and Violence" Daina Reid Richard E. Robbins May 2, 2016 (2016-05-02) 0.32[10]
Flynn and Allison capture McCarthy along with a woman who gives birth to his baby through her back; Flynn appears to find his wife's dead body.
5 "Her Body in My Soul" Glendyn Ivin Sean Tretta May 9, 2016 (2016-05-09) 0.37[11]
Flynn's wife turns out to be an alien hunter all along, impersonating a dead human from the time she met him; he loses her yet again.
6 "Bunker Soldier" Daina Reed Bret Vandenbos & Brandon Willer May 16, 2016 (2016-05-16) 0.29[12]
Allison, Flynn, and Dylan go after Brother Number Four, the hunter who became Truss' CIA asset after crash landing in 1980 and now holed up in a Turkish prison.
7 "Kissing the Machine" Rowan Woods Natalie Chaidez & Devin Hughes May 23, 2016 (2016-05-23) 0.26[13]
The Hunters, including Flynn's wife and Brother Four, reprogram Regan who is then returned after a ceremony where the ETU mole is killed.
8 "The More I See You" Mat King Tony Elliot May 30, 2016 (2016-05-30) TBA
9 "Promise"[14] TBA TBA June 6, 2016 (2016-06-06) TBA
10 "Our System"[14] TBA TBA June 13, 2016 (2016-06-13) TBA
11 "Telegraph"[14] TBA TBA June 20, 2016 (2016-06-20) TBA
12 "Pretending to See the Future"[14] TBA TBA June 27, 2016 (2016-06-27) TBA
13 "New Holy Ground"[14] TBA TBA July 11, 2016 (2016-07-11) TBA

Reception

The series has been universally panned by critics. Brian Lowry from Variety called the pilot "utterly generic, conceptually cynical and instantly forgettable."[15] Boston Hearld's Michael Perigard criticized the overacting from the cast and felt that the series seems like torture porn.[16]

Hunters sits with a 0% on Rotten Tomatoes[17] in addition to a score of 34 from 12 critics over on Metacritic.[18]

References

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