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Rise (2018)
Season 1
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A working class high school drama department and the students come alive under a passionate teacher and family man whose dedication to the program galvanizes the entire town.
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10 Episodes
Pilot
E1
Pilot
Episode 1
Most of All to Dream
E2
Most of All to Dream
Episode 2
What Flowers May Bloom
E3
What Flowers May Bloom
Episode 3
Victory Party
E4
Victory Party
Episode 4
We've All Got Our Junk
E5
We've All Got Our Junk
Episode 5
Bring Me Stanton
E6
Bring Me Stanton
Episode 6
This Will God Willing Get Better
E7
This Will God Willing Get Better
Episode 7
The Petition
E8
The Petition
Episode 8
Totally Hosed
E9
Totally Hosed
Episode 9
Opening Night
E10
Opening Night
Episode 10
Cast of Season 1
Josh Radnor
Lou Mazzuchelli
Auli'i Cravalho
Lilette Suarez
Rosie Perez
Tracey Wolfe
Marley Shelton
Gail Mazzuchelli
Amy Forsyth
Gwen Strickland
Damon J. Gillespie
Robbie
Casey W. Johnson
Gordy Mazzuchelli
Ellie Desautels
Michael Hallowell
Alexis Molnar
Lexi
Tiffany Mann
Cheryl
Caroline Pluta
Violet
Mark Tallman
Detrelle Thorne
Niloy Alam
Sundeep
Rarmian Newton
Maashous Evers
Ted Sutherland
Simon Saunders
Stephen Plunkett
Robert Saunders
Stephanie J. Block
Patricia Saunders
Taylor Richardson
Kaitlin Mazzuchelli
Shannon Purser
Annabelle Bowman
Shirley Rumierk
Vanessa Suarez
Joe Tippett
Coach Sam Strickland
Sean Grandillo
Jeremy Travers
Jennifer Ferrin
Denise Strickland
Diallo Riddle
Andy Kranepool
Tom Riis Farrell
Mr. Baer
Rachel Hilson
Harmony Curtis
Season 1 Reviews
San Francisco Chronicle
David Wiegand
The writers rely too heavily on the cliches to develop characters, which leaves many of them underdeveloped or inconsistent.
Paste Magazine
Amy Amatangelo
I still feel like I bought tickets to a Broadway show I really, really wanted to see and I didn't get my money's worth. That being said, I couldn't stop watching. So there's definitely something here. I'm just waiting for [it] to rise to its potential.
Village Voice
Lara Zarum
Rise is not the next Friday Night Lights, or even the next great teen drama. It's more like Friday Night Lite.
indieWire
Ben Travers
It's time for a break from the tears. You have to earn those.
Entertainment Weekly
Darren Franich
Rise wants to be an inspiring drama. More accurate to describe it as a drama about wanting to be inspirational...Rise seems uninterested in its own best instincts, willing to bring up ideas but unwilling to carry them over the finish line.
New York Times
James Poniewozik
Mr. Radnor is not convincing -- or he is, but in the wrong ways.
AV Club
Erik Adams
When Rise shifts focus to one of Robbie's big games, it becomes painfully apparent how effortlessly Friday Night Lights stirred the emotions Rise struggles to find. It's not until the season finale that the show realizes its full tear-jerking potential.
Vanity Fair
Richard Lawson
It's powerful stuff, a testament to what great theater can do. And, I suppose, what decent TV can sometimes do, too.
AV Club
Ali Barthwell
The audience doesn't get the chance to discover the students' strengths along with the characters...The way Rise unfolds now, there's no tension and no release. Events just happen one after the other.
New York Magazine/Vulture
Kathryn VanArendonk
Welcome to NBC's Rise, a new series that suffers from some very significant pilot-itis.
RogerEbert.com
Allison Shoemaker
When Rise works best, it's invariably placing these kids at the center; when it stumbles, it's nearly always because the series chooses to tell us how inspired they should be, rather than showing us what happens when they're inspired.
USA Today
Kelly Lawler
... Rise feels like a rehash, a collection of stories we've already seen, presented with a slightly darker palette.
Salon.com
Melanie McFarland
What Rise has going for it is an honesty that prevents it from falling into the traps in which Glee frequently became stuck.
Los Angeles Times
Robert Lloyd
It is predictable, sometimes down to individual lines; the title itself gives the arc away. But predictability is part of what makes musical theater tick; it delivers the thrill the crowd comes for, dramatic tension leading to inspirational release.
Slate
Willa Paskin
Mr. Mazzu is like Rise itself: sweet, earnest, cloying, and also obnoxious.
Vox
Caroline Framke
When Rise finds its stride and lets its kids hit their high notes, it can be breathtaking. But the show has one huge anchor of a problem that keeps it from truly taking off. Rise's supposedly inspirational teacher is a patronizing nightmare.
New York Magazine/Vulture
Jen Chaney
Despite its flaws, Rise does a commendable job of evoking that feeling and many of the other complications that accompany the transition from adolescence to adulthood.
Newsday
Verne Gay
The cast is solid, but otherwise "Rise" falls flat.
Variety
Maureen Ryan
In a sense, the show itself is a rumination on whether a song would be enough to bridge any number of American divides. Part of the appeal of Rise is that it sure would be nice to think so.
Boston Globe
Matthew Gilbert
That timeliness gives the series added relevance, and it grounds the story in reality. The motivated, uplifting kids in "Rise" aren't too good to be true.
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Rise: Season 1
Rise: Season 1
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Rise: United, They Will Rise
Rise: United, They Will Rise
Trailer
Rise: First Look: Season 1 (Featurette)
Rise: First Look: Season 1 (Featurette)
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