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The Enemy Within

Name: The Enemy Within
Genre: Drama, Crime
Released: 2019-02-25
Cast: Jennifer Carpenter, Morris Chestnut, Raza Jaffrey, Kelli Garner, Noah Mills

2019 | 1 seasons | 43 min | Drama, Crime

Weeknight Watchearly rating

Why it’s a Weeknight Watch

With a small audience and a quick end and middling reviews (43% on Rotten Tomatoes), it's a mixed bag. Fine if it's on; don't plan your night around it.

Based on critics, audiences, awards, box office and buzz. Details below.

Is it for you?

Who'll love it: Made for crime-drama fans. If you loved Homeland or The Blacklist, start here.
The mood: Dark and gritty.
The pace: 1 season: a few weeks of evenings, episodes of about 43 minutes, about 9 hours in all.
What might put you off: Rated TV-14. Probably too much for younger kids.
It was cancelled, so the story may not get a proper ending.

Erica Shepherd is a brilliant former CIA operative, now known as the most notorious traitor in American history serving life in a Supermax prison. Against every fiber of his being but with nowhere else to turn, FBI Agent Will Keaton enlists Shepherd to help track down a fiercely dangerous and elusive criminal she knows all too well. While Shepherd and Keaton have different motivations for bringing the enemy to justice, they both know that to catch a spy… they must think like one.

How it earned its rating

CriticsBelow par
43% on Rotten Tomatoes, 55 on Metacritic
AudiencesBelow par
6.9 out of 10
AwardsNot counted
No major awards or nominations
Reach & staying powerWeak
Ran for 1 season and reached a small audience so far; interest faded quickly after launch
Buzz & cultural impactBelow par
About 40K people sought it out in the past year