The Revolution pilot from NBC is available streaming on their website and Hulu now, giving fans an early look at one of the season’s most anticipated new dramas. the big-budget survival thriller stars Giancarlo Esposito, Billy Burke, Zak Orth and an ensemble cast as survivors of a mysterious global event that saps all electrical devices of their function and leaves the world a dangerous shell of its former, industrialized self.The series has huge potential for success; it doesn’t feel like the typical, sanitized actioner you get on network television, instead having more in common with The Walking Dead, one of its clear influences in terms of (at least) marketability. That’s also a potential problem for the show in terms of survival in the NBC primetime lineup–the brutality is much more immediate than you ever got on something like Heroes, and there were several moments in the pilot where the raw emotion of the characters came through in a way that felt more heartwrenching than entertaining.
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