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After peaceful aliens invade earth with the intention to end all suffering and guide humanity into a utopia under the indirect rule. but does this utopia come at a price? And if yes, what is it?
17 October 1965, Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia
10 October 1946, Redditch, Worcestershire, England, UK
July1980, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
18 February 1982, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
8 July 1994, Australia
December 13, 2015
The world of Childhood's End feels disappointingly limited, even though it encompasses all of humanity.
December 09, 2015
Syfy's adaptation plays with Clarke's plot and themes but does so in such a leaden, DOA way that it's almost like a grade-school paper from someone who didn't read the assignment.
December 14, 2015
Will everything come together by the third night? Will Clarke's visionary book make sense? (Or will this turn into total nonsense?) Unknown, but at least there's enough promise here to hint that it's worth waiting to find out.
December 14, 2015
Where Childhood's End succeeds is that it balances its convention and its twists in fairly equal measure.
December 14, 2015
The absorbing three-part Childhood's End (airing through Wednesday) plays like a deluxe Twilight Zone miniseries.
December 09, 2015
Although it may favor those less familiar with the classic source material, Childhood's End provides anyone willing to take a chance on the series a complex, weird and undeniably shocking sci-fi trip.
December 14, 2015
Some of the original tale's poetic, deceptively detached tone remains, but this miniseries ends up feeling derivative of the films and TV shows that have come in Childhood's End's wake.
December 14, 2015
The story, compressed into fewer years, might have had greater impact played over two nights, but it's still able to thrill - and chill.
