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The series explores the demons lurking beneath the surface of a contemporary American family. The family of adult siblings find that their past secrets and scars are revealed when their black sheep of a brother returns home.
22 February 1960, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
20 October 1967, Garden City, Long Island, New York, USA
21 December 1974, Panama City, Panama
4 September 1951, El Paso, Texas, USA
16 December 1974, Shreveport, Louisiana, USA
18 November 1974, Springfield, Massachusetts, USA
26 January 1970, Miami Beach, Florida, USA
26 June 1986, Queens, New York, USA
24 April 1959, Dallas, Texas, USA
March 19, 2015
With its dark ambience, stony performances and deliberate pace, Bloodline has a dastardly reticence to it that may turn off viewers. But once the series starts to get its claws into you, a long night of binge-watching seems inevitable.
March 17, 2015
The premiere left me a little concerned that the overheated dialogue and drawn-out mysteries of Bloodline would frustrate me too much in the long run. By the end of the third episode, I would have dropped my plans for the day to watch at least one more.
March 04, 2015
Rarely do we escape the distinctly depressed insular universe of the Reynolds' family, making for an experience both intoxicating and claustrophobic.
March 19, 2015
Chandler's John Rayburn may not be able to see what's coming next, but binge-happy Netflix subscribers certainly can. A lighter touch is needed when the space between episodes is seven seconds, not seven days.
November 11, 2015
That noir family dynamic is what makes this show tick. The flashbacks smartly give the audience access to those magic mirrors. We get to understand what the Rayburns see when they look at each other. And like them, we have no idea who can we trust.
March 18, 2015
Through it all, Bloodline sucks you in and keeps your nerves in a vise.
March 18, 2015
From a plot standpoint, Bloodline is completely flat, using its shifting timelines as a trick to make mundane developments seem more ominous than they really are.
March 19, 2015
It's the shenanigans with the timeline - and the way they tend to illustrate how ultimately hollow the characters are, even with these superb actors playing them... that won't have me racing to finish the rest of the first Bloodline season anytime soon.
March 19, 2015
A certain amount of trust has to go with Bloodline. The team behind it is first-rate, the actors too. And because this is a project designed for binge-watching, maybe the pace will work in its favor.
April 29, 2015
Bloodline fails because it is built for binge-viewing, rather than in spite of it.
