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HBO Max continues stealth drops of some of the best drama mini-series on television. Last year highlights included “The Head” and “ Station Eleven ,” and they start 2022 strongly with the fantastic “The Tourist,” a twisty tale that plays like an Aussie version of “ Fargo .” With sharp dialogue, clever plotting, and career-best work from Jamie Dornan and Danielle Macdonald , this is a great little thriller, a show that constantly keeps you guessing and entertained in equal measure.

The “ Belfast ” and “ Fifty Shades of Grey ” star plays an unnamed man (at least for a while) who is driving through the very remote Australian outback. He stops at a station to use the bathroom, banters with the guy behind the counter, and hits the road again. Looking in the rearview mirror, he sees a truck gaining on him with remarkable speed. The Man twists off the road to avoid it and the trucker follows, revealing through a POV from his cab that this is very intentional—he’s trying to kill this tourist. They race through the desert until The Man’s car crashes. He wakes up in a hospital with no memory of who he is or how he got there.

Enter a small-town officer named Helen Chambers (Macdonald), engaged to an awful man named Ethan ( Greg Larsen ) and thrust into a mystery about who this handsome Irishman is in a hospital bed. When The Man finds a note with a time and a location in his pocket, he heads to a small town called Burnt Ridge, where he meets a woman named Luci ( Shalom Brune-Franklin ) who might know about his past, ends up crossing paths with a sociopath ( Ólafur Darri Ólafsson ) who clearly wants him dead, and gets a phone call from a man who’s been buried underground. And then things get even weirder.

Created by the people behind the excellent “ The Missing ” (which aired stateside on Starz), the writing on “The Tourist” is a metronomic back and forth between reveals and how those reveals propel the narrative in a new direction. Pushing their way through all the chaos are Dornan and Macdonald, both phenomenal. Dornan finds a quirky, unsettled way to play a man who doesn’t know who he is without resorting to the cliché of the lost soul. If anything, he leans into more of a blank slate interpretation of amnesia, playing a guy who’s more open to what comes next because he can’t remember what came before. And Macdonald is charming and so incredibly likable that she becomes the heart of a show that can be cold at times.

Echoes of “ Memento ” and “Fargo” aside, “The Tourist” also has its own quirky personality. Some of those quirks get a bit extreme in late-season episodes in ways I can’t spoil, but the show is never boring. It’s a reminder that the Dornan who was so great in “ The Fall ” is still out there, and I hope it leads him to more bizarre, challenging roles like this one. There’s an argument to be made that there’s an even-better 100-minute movie in this six-episode mini-series, but that’s not the world we’re in right now. A story like this has a better chance to be told in the TV system than the mid-budget film one, and the writers don’t drag their feet or spin their wheels like so many streaming thrillers. They’re constantly moving our hero forward, keeping us uncertain about his past and even his moral center.

Some will argue that “The Tourist” gets too convoluted and I’ll admit that I enjoyed the playful uncertainty of the first half of the season more than the intensity of the second half. Although the show does get deeper in how it unpacks lies we tell ourselves and those we listen to from other people. It turns out that everyone on "The Tourist" has a secret or two, and almost all of them could use a car accident to reset the hole they've dug for themselves. 

I'm not sure how intentional it is but the show never stopped reminding me of some of my favorite early Coen films—the noir danger of “ Blood Simple ,” the open roads of “ Raising Arizona ” (and a bearded hunter who seems unkillable), Macdonald’s very Marge Gunderson character—and yet these nods to greats are embedded in a breakneck plot that never slows down enough to distract from its own inspired storytelling. Take the trip.

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Brian Tallerico is the Managing Editor of RogerEbert.com, and also covers television, film, Blu-ray, and video games. He is also a writer for Vulture, The Playlist, The New York Times, and GQ, and the President of the Chicago Film Critics Association.

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'The Tourist' doesn't know who he is — just that someone wants him dead

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In The Tourist, "The Man" (Jamie Dornan) wakes up in a small town hospital in the Australian outback with no idea who he is or how he got there. HBO hide caption

In The Tourist, "The Man" (Jamie Dornan) wakes up in a small town hospital in the Australian outback with no idea who he is or how he got there.

Ever since the birth of mass communications, our culture has been haunted by the idea of amnesia. In high-class books by the likes of George Orwell or Milan Kundera , forgetting becomes a political metaphor for the erasure of truth. Things are less ambitious in pop entertainments like Memento or the Jason Bourne series . There, memory-loss is less a metaphor than a motor — a gimmick to drive the story forward.

This motor purrs like a Ferrari in The Tourist , a hit BBC series playing on HBO Max. Written by the Williams brothers, Harry and Jack — best known here for The Missing and Baptiste — this funny, suspenseful six-part thriller doesn't merely keep us guessing. It keeps its amnesiac hero guessing, too. He knows even less about his own story than we do.

A bearded, muscled-up Jamie Dornan stars as a T-shirt clad Irishman who gets in a car accident and winds up in a small town hospital in the Australian outback. Known simply as "The Man," he doesn't know who he is or how he got there. But soon after he leaves the hospital, he knows one thing for sure: Somebody wants to kill him.

As he seeks to find out who's after him and why, he's helped by two very different women. Luci (Shalom Brune-Franklin) is a waitress who we aren't quite sure what to make of. In contrast, it's easy to trust probationary constable Helen Chambers, played by Danielle Macdonald. Helen's a newbie cop who struggles with her weight and with a fiancé who speaks of her appearance with such passive-aggressive meanness that I kept hoping he'd become one of the show's murder victims.

While The Man's search for his identity is grippingly plotted, the show lets the action breathe. It takes time to enjoy his encounters with a wide range of oddball types, be it a goofy chess-playing pilot, a Greek mobster, the affably nutty woman who offers him lodging, or the enormous, cowboy-hatted hitman who has the self-satisfied theatricality of an escapee from a Tarantino movie. That said, The Man knows he must keep moving to stay alive.

For all The Tourist 's inventiveness — Episode 5 is a trip — it reminds us that even good pop culture is often derivative. The show's opening car crash sequence mimics the Steven Spielberg movie Duel . More importantly, the Williams brothers are pretty clearly doing a Down Under riff on Fargo . Their series offers the same blend of violence and barbed humor, the same mythologizing of bleak, underpopulated places, and the same cavalcade of viciousness and folly that brings out the heroism in an ordinary person.

The show's moral center is Helen, who, in Macdonald's sensational performance, has our sympathy from the get-go. Her work is so scene-stealingly good that I would call this a career-making performance if I hadn't already said this about Macdonald's electric work as an aspiring New Jersey rapper in the indie film Patti Cake$ .

Helen's transparent goodness makes her the perfect counterpoint to The Man, a handsome hunk who's a mystery, even to himself. It's a great role for Dornan, who, earlier in his career, had a slightly synthetic prettiness that made him ideal for creepy characters like the S&M billionaire in Fifty Shades of Grey . Here, he's a bit older, thicker, and rougher. And just as Brad Pitt often seems liberated when his good looks are masked a bit, Dornan gives his best performance as a man who isn't sure whether or not he's the hero of his own life.

Over the course of the six episodes, The Man struggles to learn whether, back before his accident, he was a good guy or a bad guy. And if he had been a villain, does he have to stay one, even after he starts remembering his past? I won't reveal what he discovers, though I feel obligated to say that you won't get a definitive answer this season. You'll have to watch Season 2 of The Tourist , not yet made, which I bet you will be more than happy to do.

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‘The Tourist’ Thrills, but Doesn’t Take Itself Too Seriously

Even though the six-episode series, airing on HBO Max, is gripping and full of surprises, its creators made sure to include some offbeat humor.

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By Desiree Ibekwe

LONDON — After his car is rammed off the road by a mystery driver in a truck, a Northern Irishman wakes up in a hospital in the Australian outback with no memory of who he is. “I keep telling myself to just try and remember,” he tells the police officer that comes to take his statement, “but it’s like trying to make yourself fly.”

That is the starting gun for “The Tourist,” a six-part limited series that premieres Thursday on HBO Max. After the man, played by Jamie Dornan (“ Belfast ”), leaves the hospital, it becomes clear he was involved in some murky business in his former life, and someone definitely wants him dead.

The opening premise would suggest a typical thriller. Memory loss is a familiar plot device for the genre (see: “Memento,” “The Bourne Identity” et al). “The Tourist,” which first aired on the BBC in Britain this year, is similar in form to the broadcaster’s other tense, tight shows, such as “ The Night Manager ” and “ Bodyguard .”

Unlike those offerings, “The Tourist” adds more offbeat humor and touches of the surreal to a gripping central plot that still provides car chases, shootouts and international criminal outfits.

When he first read the script, Dornan found it surprising, he said in a recent interview. “Any time I thought it was one thing, or I had a handle on where it was heading, it was altered,” he said. “It was sometimes really subtle, and sometimes it was a big whack over the head.”

As the episodes unfurl, rooting for the confused, likable character becomes a little more complicated. In a recent interview, Dornan said that when he first read the script he wondered if the audience would still be on the man’s side, “searching for the answers when they find out what some of the answers are.”

Dornan’s character is joined in his hunt for answers by the police officer from the hospital, Helen Chambers ( Danielle Macdonald ), who is on her first assignment off traffic duty. She feels strangely compelled to help the man, who also finds assistance from Luci Miller (Shalom Brune-Franklin), a waitress he meets at a cafe.

The show’s setting in small-town Australia helps provide comic relief through characters like a hapless but well-meaning rookie police officer and the elderly owners of a bed-and-breakfast. Amid the chaos and danger, there are scenes that tip into the wholesome and heartwarming.

Helen, the police officer, is also an unlikely thriller protagonist: kind, honest and unassuming. Macdonald sees her character as the show’s “Everywoman,” she said in a recent interview. When we first meet Helen, it is clear that she is unhappy and underestimated, by herself and her fiancé.

Macdonald said that she had spent some time figuring out the character’s role in the plot. “The rest of the show is so dark and Helen was so light,” she said. “It ended up balancing really nicely.”

The show’s writers and creators, the brothers Jack and Harry Williams, have become known for conventional thrillers such as the Golden Globe-nominated show “ The Missing .” “The Tourist” came from a desire to do something different. “It’s the kind of show we’d watch, it’s the kind of show we really enjoy doing,” Jack said.

The brothers also have experience with dark-hearted television comedies, having been executive producers on Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s “ Fleabag ” and on Daisy Haggard’s “ Back to Life .” Their latest show, then, was about “bridging that gap, because having made comedies and made drama, it just felt like a natural place for us to operate,” Harry Williams said.

They brought on Chris Sweeney, who also worked on “Back to Life,” to direct half of the series. Despite wanting to work on nondirectorial projects at the time, Sweeney said that he had been won over. “I don’t like straight thrillers, it’s not my thing, but I like things that use a device to talk about what is human existence in a playful way,” he said in a video interview.

“The Tourist” questions not only how the past defines us, but also — through the character trajectories of both the central character and of Helen — the other things we lean on to build our identities. Sweeney said that he felt the script had the “personality” of films he loves within the thriller genre, like the work of the Coen brothers. He described elements of the show as a “love letter” to those films, with scenes that evoke “ No Country for Old Men ” and Steven Soderbergh’s “Out of Sight.”

Dornan was initially a little concerned about the show’s genre medley. While shooting in Australia, “the three of us, Shalom, Danielle and I, we were all in equal parts terrified at different moments because of the comedy and the drama, and how to find the comfortable line there,” he said. “I was a bit like, are people going to know what this is, or where to hang their hat on it?”

In Britain, at least, the concerns seem to have been unfounded. When “The Tourist” arrived on the BBC’s streaming service on New Year’s Day, it was met with glowing reviews and quickly became the platform’s third-most successful drama opening to date.

Jack Williams said he thought that the show had resonated with audiences, in part, because of its escapist quality, adding that it “isn’t trying to reflect back some of the angst and misery that everyone’s been experiencing for a few years.”

As well as diving into a mystery, viewers of “The Tourist” are transported to a stark, almost otherworldly landscape. The show was filmed across several different locations in the sprawling expanse of southern Australia, where you can “point the camera anywhere and it just looks incredible,” Harry Williams noted. “That said, we had to travel quite a lot of hours within the outback in order to get that desired effect,” he added.

The travel contributed to the shoot’s lasting five months, a period of filming that was also stretched by the ambition of the show: The opening car chase sequence was filmed over two weeks. “It was the hardest job I’ve ever done,” Dornan said. “It’s the longest job I’ve ever done.”

With the show’s success in Britain has come discussion about the possibility of a second season. The show was conceived as a self-contained mini-series, similar to the BBC’s other six-part shows. That “less is more” approach contrasts with the sprawling nature of much of American network television; Showtime’s thriller “Homeland,” for example, ran for eight seasons and 96 episodes.

Tommy Bulfin, a BBC drama commissioning editor, said in an email that, while the broadcaster has a “tradition of doing six episode runs,” ultimately the practice of doing shorter productions was down to the subject matter. “I think the key to the success of these shows is that they’re all excellent examples of brilliantly crafted stories,” he said.

The Williams brothers echoed that sentiment. In thinking about the length of “The Tourist,” the story took precedence. “You have to kind of follow that and the natural course that it would take and not try and squeeze out more,” Harry said. The pair wouldn’t rule out the possibility of a second season, but added that they were cautious about doing so.

“There is no perfect length, just like there’s no perfect length for a book,” Harry Williams said. “But there is an appropriate length for a story.”

Desiree Ibekwe is a news assistant on the Audio team. Before joining The Times in 2020, she was a reporter at Broadcast Magazine and completed a fellowship at The Economist.  More about Desiree Ibekwe

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Full Cast of The Tourist 2024 Series on Netflix- Every Main Character & Actor In Jamie Dornan Show (Photos)

Season 2 of The Tourist involves a mostly fresh cast compared to its freshman run.

The first season of the hit BBC series, which is now streaming on Netflix , saw Jamie Dornan’s unnamed man wake up in the Australian outback with no memory of who he was. After plenty of twists and turns, with some fatal consequences, audiences now know that his real name is Elliot Stanley, and he was not the best of dudes.

Now, 2024's Season 2 sees the story go to Ireland, where audiences will hopefully learn even more memories its leading character has forgotten.

The Main Cast and Characters of The Tourist 2024

Jamie dornan - elliot stanley.

While Jamie Dornan's Tourist character was first known only as The Man, who awoke with amnesia in Australia, audiences now know his name is Elliot Stanley. He is now happily with Helen Chambers as the duo explores the world together.

Eventually, Helen brings up the idea that they should visit Ireland to remember more about his past. Little did they know this would put them in the line of fire with a deadly feud involving the McDonnell family.

Many will know Dornan from his time in the Fifty Shades of Gray franchise, but he has also played key roles in The Fall , A Haunting in Venice , and Belfast .

Danielle MacDonald - Helen Chambers

After the events of Season 1, Danielle MacDonald’s Helen Chambers decided to leave her former partner (who was rather manipulative) and instead explore the world with Elliot Stanley.

Season 2 picks up on one of their latest stop, Ireland, which is particularly important to Elliot’s undiscovered past. This detour proves to be a little more dangerous than either realized.

Some of MacDonald’s previous credits include Bird Box , Unbelievable , and Dumplin’ .

Greg Larsen - Ethan Krum

Ethan Krum, played by Greg Larsen, is the former boyfriend of Helen Chambers. The two are now separated, even if he is finding that a little hard to accept.

We Interrupt This Broadcast , Hug the Sun , and At Home Alone Together are some of the actor’s previous credits.

Olwen Fouéré - Niamh Cassidy

Olwen Fouéré’s Niamh Cassidy is the head of the family feuding against the McDonnells. She has been described as “very intriguing and enigmatic” and having “a performative element to her.”

Fouéré can also be seen in 2022’s Texas Chainsaw Massacre , The Northman , and Mandy .

Mark McKenna - Fergal McDonnell

Unlike the rest of his family, Mark McKenna’s Fergal McDonnell is not as interested in continuing the bloodshed and revenge as part of this never-ending feud. As the youngest member of the McDonnells, Fergal struggles to find his place in the world.

McKenna previously played parts in Overlord , One of Us Is Lying , and Wayne .

Francis Magee - Frank McDonnell

Despite being the cold, authoritative voice of the McDonnell family, Francis Magee's Frank McDonnell is the more considerate of the bunch. He is not the shoot first and ask questions later type of guy, but he will do what needs to be done.

Magee can also be seen in Then You Run , Kin , and Layer Cake .

Diarmaid Murtagh - Donal McDonnell

Diarmaid Murtagh brings to life Donal McDonnell, the eldest brother of his family and one of the most involved in the feud.

The actor also appears in Vikings , Bloodlands , and Outlander .

Nessa Matthews - Orla McDonnell

Orla McDonnell, played by Nessa Matthews, takes after her brother Donal for being a brutal force on nature when it comes to getting things done.

The Tourist is Matthews’ biggest onscreen role to date.

Conor MacNeill - Detective Ruairi Slater

Conor MacNeill portrays Detective Ruairi Slater, who becomes entangled with Helen amidst the two warring families that the story focuses on. Slater is dealing with some mental health issues of his own and isn’t afraid to bend the rules a bit.

Fans might know MacNeill from his work on The Sixth Commandment , Industry , and No Offense .

Réginal Kudiwu - Monsieur Tioté

Réginal Kudiwu plays Monsieur Tioté, a new character who shows up in three episodes of Season 2.

Tioté’s previous roles include Crime , Anna , The Widow , and more.

The Tourist Season 2 is already streaming on the BBC iPlayer and set to hit Netflix for the rest of the world on February 29.

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The Tourist review – Jamie Dornan is explosive in this Memento-lite caper

This outback thriller from the writers of The Missing is fun, stylish and clearly still has many twists up its sleeve

A fter an … interesting few years on the big screen, appearing in the Fifty Shades of Grey franchise (as the suavely sadistic protagonist – a performance slightly undermined by the actor’s clear desire to climb out of his own skin to get away from it all) and Wild Mountain Thyme (as – well, you wouldn’t believe me if I told you, but do look it up once you’re in your cups), Jamie Dornan is back on the small screen that gave him his breakthrough. Back then, he was compelling as the still, quiet, psychopathic serial killer Paul Spector in The Fall. Now he is equally compelling in a more action-packed role as a character known only as The Man in the new BBC One thriller The Tourist. It is the latest offering from the acclaimed writers of The Missing, Baptiste and Liar, Harry and Jack Williams, and – from the first of the six episodes, the only available for review – it looks set fair to measure up to their past successes.

We meet The Man travelling apparently without a care in the world across the Australian outback, until a Duel-ish truck appears behind him and starts trying to push him off the road. This is greeted by The Man less with shock than resignation – our first sign that The Man may not be quite the everyman he seems. He escapes by driving through a stand of trees but his relief is shortlived. The truck cannons into him from the side and he wakes up in hospital with no memory of who he is, how he got there or what his life was like before. Probationary officer Helen Chambers (Danielle Macdonald) is in charge of the case. You would be looking at her a long time before you were reminded of someone who ought to be responsible for an amnesiac man while investigating an unexplained car accident. Her main contribution so far is to let him go to a lunch appointment – according to the details written on a scrap of paper he finds in the clothes he was wearing when the accident occurred – at a diner 30 miles away on his own (and on crutches). The waitress, Luci (Shalom Brune-Franklin), spills lemonade on him. She is helping him to the loos outside when the diner explodes. They look back as smoke and debris fill the air. “Either I have the worst luck in the world,” says The Man, “or someone’s trying to kill me.” “To be fair,” replies Luci judiciously, “I think having someone trying to kill you would be the worst luck in the world.” In the aftermath, as the police tape up the site, they get a beer. “Fuck me, that’s lovely,” says The Man. “I hope I didn’t used to be an alcoholic.” The hour is peppered with humorous, humane moments like this, that keep an otherwise preposterous premise from exploding into smoke and debris itself.

The thick continues to plotten with the addition of scenes of a man buried alive somewhere in the outback (not gratuitously choking and awful, but no fun to watch if you’ve a scintilla of claustrophobia in you) with a ringing phone just out of reach, and a disposable camera is discovered at The Man’s crash site with photos of local landmarks, which puts him on the trail of his forgotten self. CCTV shows him buying a T-shirt and stuffed koala at a roadside shack. The shopkeeper told him how to get to the nearest garage and there is the koala – stuffed behind a bin along with a mobile phone. The final scene is him answering its ring. Guess who it is?

I’m not going to tell you because it’s well worth watching this fun, stylish and confident caper, which clearly still has numerous twists up its sleeve and characters to play with. The growing friendship between The Man and Helen – and the toxicity of her marriage currently being sketched in – promises to give the drama heart, too. Dornan is on fine form (and everyone who had begun to worry that they had hallucinated his acting ability in The Fall can sigh with relief and pat themselves on the back at the same time) and five more hours of this Memento-lite production should slip down as easily as The Man’s post-bomb beer. Lovely.

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Why the tourist's rotten tomatoes critics & audiences scores are so divided.

It's not unusual for a project's scores on Rotten Tomatoes to differ, but critics and audiences are shockingly divided on the TV show The Tourist.

• Critics praise The Tourist for its thrilling and entertaining storytelling, giving it an impressive overall 95% Rotten Tomatoes score.
• Audiences, however, disagree with critics and find The Tourist to be flat and tedious and the plot to be absurd and convoluted, giving it a 60% score.
• Despite differing opinions, The Tourist is a hit on Netflix and remains in its Top 10 TV Shows.

Critics and audience's scores on Rotten Tomatoes don't always line up on every project, but the consensus on the BBC show The Tourist is shockingly divided. Created by brothers Harry and Jack Williams, The Tourist is a drama thriller series centered on an amnesiac Irishman (Jamie Dornan), who woke up in Australia with no memory and gradually put the pieces of his life and identity back together as his dark past continued to catch up with him. The Tourist cast also includes Danielle McDonald as Probationary Constable Helen Chambers, Victoria Haralabidou as Lena Pascal, and Shalom Brune-Franklin As Luci Miller.

Season 1 premiered in January 2022 and was distributed by Max in the US. The Tourist was dropped by Max after its renewal but got picked up by Netflix ahead of its season 2 premiere in January 2024. Despite its impressive streaming numbers (via Variety ), The Tourist 's reception has been split among audiences and critics on Rotten Tomatoes . Typically, there are still some areas in which both parties can agree even if they disagree on the quality of a project, but with The Tourist, it seems there's virtually nothing critics and audiences are on the same page about.

The Tourist season 1 is available to stream on Netflix. Season 2 will be available to stream on Netflix on February 29, 2024.

What Critics Love About The Tourist

The show's 95% rotten tomatoes score explained..

The Tourist has been a hit with critics, averaging a 95% score on Rotten Tomatoes and even getting praise from Stephen King as a " terrific " new thriller. The critics' consensus for season 1 deems The Tourist " a beguiling drama that deepens its mystery with solid shocks and welcome moments of levity, " with Dornan making a " compelling guide " for the viewer. Overall, critics find that The Tourist succeeds as an entertaining, suspenseful, and darkly humorous thriller , with many positive comparisons to Fargo. Several critics also applauded The Tourist 's impressive ability to balance its quiet, intimate moments with its violent, action-packed scenes.

As a whole, critics give The Tourist an A+ in almost every aspect, from acting to pacing to overall thrill factor.

Most critics also collectively agree that the series managed to maintain its momentum after The Tourist season 1's ending , with the consensus stating that " The Tourist continues to twist and turn towards an unguessable destination " in season 2. Nick Clark from the London Evening Standard even emphasized that the " characters...are deeper and more richly rounded " in season 2 compared to season 1. As a whole, critics give The Tourist an A+ in almost every aspect, from acting to pacing to overall thrill factor.

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Why do some audiences dislike the tourist (according to rotten tomatoes), the show only has a 60% rating..

In general, audiences have found the series to be flat, boring, and tedious, as opposed to exciting and entertaining.

Unlike critics, audiences have been unimpressed by The Tourist, with several Rotten Tomatoes users expressing their confusion about The Tourist 's positive critical reviews. In general, audiences have found the series to be flat, boring, and tedious, as opposed to exciting and entertaining. Many viewers felt that The Tourist started off strong in season 1 but got lost along the way, developing an inconsistent and painfully slow pacing. A big problem for audiences is The Tourist' s plot, which many find predictable, absurd, cliché, convoluted, and/or full of holes and unnecessary twists and diversions with little justification or payoff.

Oddly enough, a number of the negative audience reviews for The Tourist season 2 praise season 1 , claiming that the show dropped in quality. Although season 1 is rated 8% higher than season 2 by audiences, this praise still doesn't totally track with the season's 64% score. Still, many audience members were even less amused by The Tourist 's " corny " attempts at humor in season 2, as well as the increasingly poor Irish accents. Audiences also thought the acting was significantly worse than season 1 thanks to the new supporting cast, with leads Dornan and McDonald credited for carrying the weight.

Critics find The Tourist to be more well-rounded and successful at what it aims to do (thrill and entertain), whereas audiences feel that The Tourist is uneven and lackluster.

As Rotten Tomatoes user Billy W. notes, " [it's] remarkable that most real people found [season 2] poor and yet the so-called professionals seem to rave about it. Is that a sign of a disconnect between so-called professional critics and the real world? " While critics are, of course, still " real people ," this bold question does point out the baffling " disconnect " between critics' and audiences' view of The Tourist. Ultimately, it seems that critics find The Tourist to be more well-rounded and successful at what it aims to do (thrill and entertain), whereas audiences feel that The Tourist is uneven and lackluster.

Why The Tourist Is So Popular On Netflix

Its rotten tomatoes audience score isn't a problem..

Despite the lack of love from viewers, The Tourist is still exceptionally popular on Netflix. After moving from Max to Netflix on February 1, 2024, The Tourist became the #1 series on the platform for a period of time and still holds a spot in the streamer's Top 10 TV Shows. Considering audiences do not appear to be fans of the show, it might seem confusing or even contradictory that The Tourist is clearly garnering and maintaining viewership on Netflix.

If a friend or random Internet user advises against it , prospective viewers might be compelled to watch The Tourist anyway out of morbid curiosity.

One possible explanation is that audiences are either not paying attention to reviews or only listening to the critical reception. Word of mouth may also be having the opposite effect than expected. If a friend or random Internet user advises against it , prospective viewers might be compelled to watch The Tourist anyway out of morbid curiosity. There are also only six episodes per season of The Tourist , and so far, only season 1 is available on Netflix, which makes it a quick watch, even if it's not enjoyable.

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Stream It Or Skip It: ‘The Tourist’ On Netflix, Where Jamie Dornan Plays A Man Without His Memory Trying To Outrun His Past

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What would you do if you lost your memory? Not just what you had for breakfast, but all sense of who you are and who is in your life? Then you find out that someone really, really wants to see you dead? That’s the idea behind the new Netflix series, which originally ran on HBO Max back in 2022.

THE TOURIST : STREAM IT OR SKIP IT?

Opening Shot: Scenes of the arid environment in the Australian Outback. A tiny car drives down an empty road.

The Gist: A man (Jamie Dornan) stops for gas; he’s wearing a generic “AUSTRALIA” tourist t-shirt. He has no idea why the attendant at the station makes him sign out for the bathroom key. We see him come out the back door of the bathroom, next to the Dumpsters.

As he’s driving on the seemingly empty road in his tiny Mazda, a massive tractor trailer bears down on him. When the tractor trailer rams the man’s car, he realizes it’s not just an aggressive driver. After a long chase over some rough terrain, the man thinks he’s gotten away from the truck, when the truck slams into him, causing the tiny car to roll over a few times.

The man wakes up in the local hospital, surprisingly not severely injured. However, he has no idea who he is or what he was doing. He doesn’t even remember his own name. He can recall a song title when he’s in an MRI machine, but that’s about it.

A friendly local cop, Helen Chambers (Danielle Macdonald), goes to his room to take a statement. She is a bit uncomfortable with the man’s lack of memory, but ends up being reassuring to an extent. The only thing he finds in his possessions is a note to meet someone the next day at a diner in a nearby town. Helen says she’ll look into that.

We follow Helen home and see that, like most of us, she has issues with her weight, not the least of which is exacerbated by her fiancé Ethan (Greg Larsen) and their upcoming wedding.

Another thing we see is someone buried underground. Desperate to get out of whatever box he’s been put in, he tries to call someone on his phone, but no one is answering.

The man goes outside to get air, but gets lost inside the hospital, scaring him senseless. He decides to check himself out of the hospital the next day, against medical advice, because he needs to go to that diner and find out just who wanted to meet him there. Helen understands why he wants to do it, and gives him a bus ticket to get there.

At the diner, he meets a waitress named Luci (Shalom Brune-Franklin), who seems to be fascinated by his amnesia. When she spills lemonade on him, she takes him out to where there are bathrooms. Just then, there’s an explosion, right in the booth where he was sitting. He wonders aloud why in the world someone is trying to kill him.

Pictures from a disposable camera found at the crash site help him retrace his steps, as well as video from the gift shop he visited. It brings him back to the gas station and its bathroom. He doesn’t find out his name though, as he signed the key sign-out sheet as “Crocodile Dundee.” But he finds something else; a stuffed koala that he hid next to the Dumpster. Much to his surprise, it starts ringing.

What Shows Will It Remind You Of? Take the movie  Memento and cross it with the quirkiness of the first season of the  Fargo series, and you’ve got the vibe of  The Tourist.

Our Take: The Tourist , written by Harry Williams and Jack Williams ( The Missing, Fleabag ) looks like it’s a complex show with a twisty plot, but when you really take a close look, it’s pretty straightforward. Dornan’s character has no idea who he is; all he knows is that someone wants to kill him. With the help of Helen and others, he’ll try to piece things together before those that are after him, including Billy (Ólafur Darri Ólafsson), the whistling man who almost squashed him in the tractor trailer, catch up to him.

In the first episode,  The Tourist  evolves from what seems like a thriller to a more personal narrative. It’s why we get involved in Helen’s life when she’s off-duty. In a Weight Watchers-style meeting, she claims she doesn’t like her body, even though everyone is yelling about body acceptance. But it also feels like she’s more there because of her fiancé than anything else. So even though Helen knows her name, who’s in her life and what she does, she also hasn’t found herself. Plus, she seems to be made to feel guilty about just about everything.

Perhaps as she gets more involved in the life of Dornan’s character, the more she will figure out who she is. At least that’s what we hope, because Macdonald is utterly charming as Helen, who is very much in the vein of Allison Tolman’s portrayal of Molly Solverson in the aforementioned  Fargo. She’s good at her job, even if she’s a bit green, but also is a friendly and helpful sort who needs to help herself most of all.

There is definitely a bit of a sense of humor running the first episode, but the Williamses aren’t trying to make the show quippy. The humor is there when people seem to be fascinated with Dornan’s character’s amnesia, though he assures them it’s no picnic. The humor creeps in along the edges of the show, but it does just enough to ease what is a pretty serious and grim performance by Dornan.

There is one twist near the end of the episode that we won’t spoil here, but it does make us wonder if, as things get more complicated for Dornan’s character (notice we haven’t named him yet, because the character has none as yet), the plot will become more convoluted. We hope not, as it seems the straightforward manner in which this story is being told suits  The Tourist just fine.

Sex and Skin: Nothing in the first episode.

Parting Shot: When the stuffed koala starts ringing, the man digs out a burner phone and answers it. When the man who’s buried starts yelling in relief that he answered, the man says, “Uh, who’s this?”

Sleeper Star: Shalom Brune-Franklin does some compelling work as Luci, and we know that she’s much more involved in this story than most of the first episode lets on.

Most Pilot-y Line: Nothing we could find.

Our Call:  STREAM IT.  The Tourist  hooked us in with its story, plus the performances by Dornan, Macdonald and Brune-Franklin. Let’s hope the story continues to be interesting as the season goes on.

Joel Keller ( @joelkeller ) writes about food, entertainment, parenting and tech, but he doesn’t kid himself: he’s a TV junkie. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, Slate, Salon, RollingStone.com , VanityFair.com , Fast Company and elsewhere.

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The Tourist: Season 2 Reviews

While it doesn't recapture season 1's singular magic, The Tourist season 2 is a compelling thrill ride thanks to Jamie Dornan & Danielle Macdonald.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 3, 2024

The narrative is heavy with complexities but manages to keep the storylines clear, making them collide for an exciting and tense climax.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 5, 2024

Some on-screen collaborations simply demand more opportunities to keep shining, and Dornan with Macdonald is one of them.

Full Review | Mar 3, 2024

With strong writing and ambitious plot turns that will give you serious whiplash, The Tourist is edgy, brutal, and laugh-out-loud funny.

Full Review | Original Score: 9/10 | Feb 29, 2024

I found the first season compelling, if a bit unnecessarily twisty... Amnesia is a TV drama cliché, but “The Tourist” gives it some punch.

Full Review | Feb 28, 2024

On paper, The Tourist season two sounds like it just doesn’t work. Yet somehow, it does. It’s a bit like one of those Magic Eye pictures; you have to actively ignore the finer details to make it all make sense.

Full Review | Original Score: B+ | Feb 26, 2024

The Tourist hooked us in with its story, plus the performances by Dornan, Macdonald and Brune-Franklin.

Full Review | Feb 2, 2024

While “The Tourist” samples from the same trough as “Fargo” and even, at times, “Pulp Fiction,” it’s still a hog-heaven meal all to its own thanks in large part to Dornan and Macdonald.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 1, 2024

Under the capable guidance of the Williams brothers, Dornan is a Jason Bourne-style action hero while also capitalising on his very real knack for comedy.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 25, 2024

The tone remains at a high pitch: life and death encounters have a farcical but thrilling edge, plot twists are compulsory, and villains exude eccentric menace.

Full Review | Jan 17, 2024

Writers Harry and Jack Williams do not care to dilly-dally with explanations, instead trusting the viewer will naturally want to come along for a ride that’s part Coen brothers with a dash of Father Ted.

Full Review | Jan 12, 2024

The result is a crashing mess: it is such a disappointment. How can a story be all plot twists but no plot?

Full Review | Jan 8, 2024

Figuratively and geographically, you’re left wondering where The Tourist could go next.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 7, 2024

Possibly this will all soon click together and make sense, but equally possibly it won’t, because I’m not sure the first series ever did. Doesn’t matter. It’s great. Like Fargo, but drunk.

Full Review | Jan 5, 2024

This raucous, entertaining thriller is the perfect vehicle for the one-time Fifty Shades star.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 3, 2024

While it’s not quite as sharply plotted as the original outing, it still adeptly balances its cranking muscular tonal shifts between exasperated wryness to actual violent chills and back

Full Review | Jan 3, 2024

Writers Jack and Harry Williams are Britain’s answer to the Coen brothers, and the show is so influenced by Fargo that you could transplant many of these characters and scenes straight to Minnesota.

It is a riot: darkly funny and quirky, with great characterisation and unexpected twists. Though, as with Boat Story, I could do without the violence.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 2, 2024

In refocusing, something of the tension that typified the Antipodean season is lost. All the same, The Tourist is undoubtedly one of the best British thrillers of recent years.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 2, 2024

"Living in the past doesn't do anyone any favours", says one character, and that pretty much sums up the theme of the series, but boy does it make for some stellar TV, with characters that are deeper and more richly rounded than series one.

'The Spiderwick Chronicles' Review: A Horror Spin on a Classic Series

This adaptation of the books by Holly Black and Tony DiTerlizzi is for a whole new generation.

The Big Picture

• Roku's The Spiderwick Chronicles stands on its own without needing viewers to be previously familiar with the book series.
• The entire cast turns in great performances, and the visual effects are remarkable and realistic.
• The level of horror feels inconsistent with the younger tone of the series at times, and the Grace family conflict gets drawn out in occasionally frustrating ways.

It's been a long time coming for fans of The Spiderwick Chronicles , as the series finally makes its long-awaited debut this week. Just under a year ago, the completed series was dropped by Disney+ before thankfully being acquired by the Roku Channel . The series, all eight episodes of which are available to stream starting April 19, is a terrific young adult fantasy adventure that incorporates just enough horror elements to keep things interesting. Under showrunner Aron Eli Coleite and director Kat Coiro , it updates the story where necessary, but most importantly, never loses sight of the spirit of the Holly Black and Tony DiTerlizzi book series on which it is based.

The Spiderwick Chronicles (2024)

Follows the Grace family as they move from Brooklyn, New York, to their ancestral home in Henson, Michigan, the Spiderwick Estate.

What Is 'The Spiderwick Chronicles' About?

In The Spiderwick Chronicles , twins Simon ( Noah Cottrell ) and Jared ( Lyon Daniels ) move with their sister Mallory ( Mychala Lee ) and their mother Helen ( Joy Bryant ) to their ancestral home, Spiderwick. The Grace family is seeking a fresh start , and more importantly, seeking help for Jared, who has been getting into trouble at school with increasingly concerning behavior. There is a specialist in the area, Dr. Brauer ( Christian Slater ), that Helen is hopeful will be able to get to the root of Jared's problems.

Fortunately, for those who are not familiar with the original book series — or those who, like me, read them two decades ago and don't remember much beyond broad strokes — Roku's The Spiderwick Chronicles doesn't rely on any pre-existing knowledge of the story. There are no gaps in the narrative where the writers hope the audience's memory will fill in the blanks. For all that it is based on the world first created by Black and DiTerlizzi, The Spiderwick Chronicles stands remarkably on its own as a fantasy series.

'The Spiderwick Chronicles' Leans Into More Horror Than the Books

The original Spiderwick books follow a plot that eventually pieces together, so the reader can see how the seemingly separate events were part of a larger story, but the wisest decision the series makes is to do away with the episodic format of the books in favor of a serialized story . Rather than confronting the beings from the "invisible world" in a creature-of-the-week style adventure, the Grace siblings have one mystery to unravel — the secrets of their Great Aunt Lucinda ( Charlayne Woodard ), the field guide written by her father Arthur Spiderwick ( Albert Jones ), and the boggart named Thimbletack ( Jack Dylan Grazer ), who lives in their house. At the same time, the threat from Mulgarath and his associate Calliope ( Alyvia Alyn Lind ) continues to grow, folding into the siblings' struggles.

As far as villains go, Slater's Dr. Brauer is equal parts menacing and smooth. His character comes from the tradition of villains where the means might be gruesome — and they are gruesome , more on that momentarily — but it's easy to understand why he feels this is his only option. He's not a villain for the sake of villainy, but rather, like all the best-written ones, a villain whose motivations are clear. He is scary in how not-scary he is, through how he draws his victims in with mild manners and smiles. The chemistry Slater shares with Bryant's Helen is also palpable and puts an interesting, more grown-up spin on one of the plot points from the book, letting the actor make full use of that leading-man charm he's exhibited for decades.

That more grown-up approach really is the defining trait of the series as a whole. The Grace siblings are all aged up from their book counterparts, and more embedded with their local peers. With older protagonists, too, comes the ability to tell more grown-up stories, and lean harder into the horror side of things which the show embraces with a gleeful enthusiasm — between this and The Last of Us , I am never looking at a mushroom again — and some stunning special effects and make-up work. While the show's elements never fully crossed the line into proper body horror territory, they were definitely bumping up against the boundaries of my admittedly low horror tolerance and sometimes felt jarring against the younger tone of the rest of the story.

'The Spiderwick Chronicles' Strongest Focus Is on the Grace Family, for Better or Worse

If there is one thing I often find grating about sibling dynamics on-screen, it's when they don't behave in a way that any real siblings would. Admittedly, that's a hard line to walk. I'd need about 20 minutes to explain any one of my inside jokes with my brother, and that kind of thing isn't conducive to good TV. Instead, The Spiderwick Chronicles chooses to bake the Grace sibling dynamics into the fabric of the larger plot going on. They love each other, that much is obvious, and they want to support each other, but they aren't always necessarily kind to one another. Simon and Mallory love Jared and want him to get better, but are equally frustrated and resentful that his struggles are the reason they had to leave home in the first place. For his part, Jared grows increasingly frustrated that as supernatural things unfold around him, his family doesn't seem to ever really hear him or believe him.

This is an interesting approach to the conversation around mental health , as many can relate to the experience of being unable to express the true scope of one's thoughts to those who ostensibly want to help. But unfortunately, this also becomes a source of frustration for the audience. It would be one thing if Jared were the only one who witnessed and experienced the supernatural goings-on. But he isn't, which means it's very frustrating to watch his family continually insist that this is because he's troubled and lashing out, instead of attributing it to the supernatural events they have also witnessed. That said, the show does add a compelling subplot about mental health care and the way people weaponize that care against the people who need it most. It also allows the three siblings to have subplots and interests of their own, building them into three distinct characters with their own motivations , as opposed to a generic group of kids with little more than a single descriptor to differentiate them.

The Spiderwick Chronicles is an excellent example of how to take beloved source material and adapt it for a new generation and demographic. Though it does stumble in places, the series is overall satisfying and self-contained — with space for another season, should it get renewed — and is an adventure worth watching , either for younger viewers looking for a slightly more grown-up tale or older audiences who enjoy their adventures with a nostalgic feel.

The Spiderwick Chronicles is an engaging adaptation of the popular series that ups the horror and the family drama.

• The series stands on its own and doesn't rely on previous familiarity with the books.
• The entire cast turns in great performances.
• The visual effects are remarkable and realistic.
• The tone of the horror feels inconsistent in places.
• The family conflict gets drawn out in sometimes frustrating ways.

The Spiderwick Chronicles premieres on Roku on April 19.

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