EPISODE
The Rook - Season 1
A young woman still faces mysterious adversaries in her mission and struggles with her extraordinary abilities. After waking up in a garden, that woman finds her life transformed when memory is lost and surrounded by dead bodies from everywhere. In the end, that woman must fight to uncover her mysterious past and resume her position in Britain, completing her mission against a group of traitors.
21 September 1976, London, England, UK
24 August 1975, London, England, UK
2 June 1994, Beverley, East Yorkshire, England, UK
3 September 1968, Chester, Cheshire, England, UK
1963, Terenure, Dublin, Ireland
June 27, 2019
It's richly imagined and boasts a fine cast, but it doesn't immediately engage.
June 21, 2019
There's nothing that wrong with The Rook, but there's also nothing that right with it either. It's okay. It is what it is. It's serviceable.
June 25, 2019
Overall, The Rook feels like a missed opportunity, departing so far from its source material that it's lost its identity, while failing to build a new one that justifies its existence.
June 27, 2019
As entertaining as it may be, "The Rook" is subject to the danger inherent in shows of its type: that the puzzles it builds so elaborately won't have sufficiently interesting answers.
June 30, 2019
Surrounded by more or less friendly characters, and with a solemn tone that does not suit it, 'The Rook' is a nice and inconsequential pastime with which to combat the dog days. [Full review in Spanish]
June 27, 2019
The pilot is a beautifully made, neo-noir espionage thriller. But if you plan to stick with it, the series will lead you down strange and infuriating paths and you might feel swindled. Pity.
June 28, 2019
The Rook ends up feeling like is an attempt to engineer a serious-minded companion to Counterpart, except one that lacks Counterpart's twisty complexity, nuanced approach to character duality and general depth.
June 28, 2019
The Rook's memory-loss thriller is ambitious, beautiful, and full of great performances, which makes its problems easy to forget.
June 27, 2019
"The Rook" feels bogged down by what it lacks and what it offers. It's a little clunky in its structure and not great at explaining itself, despite lots of attempts.
June 26, 2019
It's a show filled with intriguing ideas that sort of bounce around without really landing and the slick but frustratingly understated direction does little to liven it up.