Tom Swift

TV Series
2022
TV-14
42m

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3.3/10

1.8K

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Marquise Vilsón, Ashleigh Murray, and Tian Richards in Tom Swift (2022)

Tom is a billionaire inventor who is thrust into a world of sci-fi conspiracy and unexplained phenomena after the shocking disappearance of his father.

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Tom Swift is a billionaire inventor who is thrust into a world of sci-fi conspiracy and unexplained phenomena after the shocking disappearance of his father while on a space flight.Tom Swift is a billionaire inventor who is thrust into a world of sci-fi conspiracy and unexplained phenomena after the shocking disappearance of his father while on a space flight.Tom Swift is a billionaire inventor who is thrust into a world of sci-fi conspiracy and unexplained phenomena after the shocking disappearance of his father while on a space flight.

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IMDb RATING

3.3/10

1.8K

YOUR RATING

120User reviews

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Episodes11

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TopTop-rated 1 season 2022

• 2022

Ashleigh Murray

Zenzi Fullington

• 2022

Marquise Vilsón

Isaac Vega

• 2022

Albert Mwangi

Rowan

• 2022

April Parker Jones

Lorraine Swift

• 2022

LeVar Burton

Barclay

• 2022

Kenneth Trujillo

Signet Ring Man

• 2022

Ward Horton

Congressman Nathan Eskol

• 2022

Donovin Miller

Lino

• 2022

Brittany Ishibashi

Claire Cormier

• 2022

Christopher B. Duncan

Barton Swift

• 2022

Hayward Leach

Justin Chase

• 2022

Elizabeth Cappuccino

Susannah Robb

• 2022

Chris Renfro

Quinn

• 2022

Jeff Sprauve

Dr. Wilson

• 2022

Mayer Stern

Agent One

• 2022

Dom Kegel

Agent Two

• 2022

Jen Harper

Reverend Jones

• 2022

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1johne-55952

Truly Awful

Like a lot of white males I was attracted by the name since many of us grew up reading the books. Casting a black lead was an opportunity to update the series but instead this is collection of unrealistic stereotypes on top of ridiculously trite dialog. They apparently skimped on the writing hoping they could distract us with special effects which are equally unimpressive.

This may be one of the worst shows currently running (as you can see from the Rotten Tomato score). I maybe lasted 10 minutes on episode 1.

2jamesell-91739

Ouch!

Very disappointing. I was looking forward to a modern take on Tom Swift. Good news - attractive cast. Bad news: everything else. Acting and dialogue were atrocious. Story line was just plain silly. Hard pass.

3bosporan

Should be fabulous, sadly it is not.

A thoroughly unlikeable hero with daddy issues, he is arrogant, selfish and has a massive chip on his shoulder. The premise of this show is interesting enough, but the execution is twelfth-grade writing-contest level. Everything is drawn to extremes with little subtlety - the villain is immediately apparent even without a twirly moustache.

The core story is hackneyed, with Flash Gordan level effects, over-earnest, immersion-breaking dialogue and a plot that bounces from serendipity to McGuffins and back to magic tech mumbo jumbo.

Clearly The CW is capable of good TV (Superman & Lois, Stargirl), but this has too many extraneous constraints, competing with the need to write a compelling story.

1warjo2611

Nope!!!

I thought I had found another science fiction series, bot NOPE!!!. The character Tom Swift is annoying and too extra , unlike in the book series. If the book series was popular then the producers and writers could have given a closer version of the character.

1drthierfelder

Just WOW (in a bad way)

I tried to get through the first two episodes. It was mental root canal. One of the main reasons is this Tom Swift's total departure from both the 1930 and 1960 book series. And, no, I don't mean that in this version he's Black or gay. What I mean is that he's mean-spirited, vindictive, and just plain unlikeable. He's full of himself and revels in his narcissism. The Tom Swift of the book series was altruistic and a humanitarian--concepts this Tom Swift wouldn't begin to understand. I was so looking forward to this series, but this is one is just plain painful.

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It took more than 100 years for the Tom Swift character to make it the screen; there are more than 100 novels but almost all efforts to adapt them into film or television have failed. The first effort was in 1914, followed by failed film projects in the 1930s through 1960s. A television pilot was made in 1958, but didn't make it to air and is now considered lost. In the 1970s, Glen A. Larson, who had science fiction success with Battlestar Galactica, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, and Knight Rider, attempted a television series to be part of a wheel format; alternating episodes with Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys. Only the latter two were developed into a series. In 1983, a one-off special starring Willie Aames was produced, but poor ratings prevented it from being developed further.