Echo 3: Season 1 - TV Reviews (2024)

Like most contemporary shows, it prolongs the action in order to stretch it out over a full season, but in this case the slow pace allows genuine tension to build.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 10, 2023

As a series, Echo 3 doesn’t stretch three acts into 10 episodes so much as it repeats the three-act structure three times. It takes two steps forward and two steps back.

Full Review | Dec 23, 2022

It’s the sort of thriller we rarely see on the silver screen these days, but Apple has, thankfully, provided Boal with the right canvas (and budget) for a new kind of military thriller.

Full Review | Dec 15, 2022

Jessica Ann Collins as Amber gives a controlled performance, while Luke Evans as his brother, Bambi, and Michiel Huisman as Prince, all look the part.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 6, 2022

Another culturally colonialist production in which we’re supposed to empathise with western heroes’ psychodramas as they face off against underscripted others – think American Vietnam movies, Ridley Scott’s Black Hawk Down, Homeland.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 6, 2022

The kind of show that thrills the most when it’s defying expectations.

Full Review | Original Score: B | Dec 5, 2022

Colombia’s political strata are examined with some welcome detail, but little involving the three leads resonates. Echo 3 is beyond rescue.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/5 | Nov 30, 2022

Overall, this is a great-looking series with some powerfully intense moments, but it lacks enough to make me feel invested in the characters to stick with it until the end.

Full Review | Original Score: 6/10 | Nov 29, 2022

While it’s more ambitious than a mindless, gun-toting yarn in the way it leans into broader geopolitical tensions, there’s little in the first batch of episodes that leaves an impression.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 28, 2022

Tough, tense and thoughtful, this is a deeply grown-up thriller — and more compelling journalistic filmmaking from co-showrunner Mark Boal.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 24, 2022

It’s thrilling, subversive action entertainment, or at the very least a potent reminder of how much excellent action doesn’t require easy heroics.

Full Review | Nov 24, 2022

We’ll giveEcho 3the benefit of the doubt because it’s taking a more thoughtful and deliberate tack than most military shows. But boy, do things go pretty slowly to start.

Full Review | Nov 23, 2022

Echo 3 is best when it showcases the rich environment and intimate shooting style but begins to lose its way when digging into the various relationships at play.

Full Review | Original Score: 6/10 | Nov 23, 2022

It’s a rare show that manages to balance riveting action with an almost poetic rhythm, but the contrasts exist in concert here.

Full Review | Original Score: 9/10 | Nov 23, 2022

Echo 3 is a polished piece of gung-ho machismo, which never lives up to its intriguing premise. Featuring Luke Evans and Michael Huisman as members of an elite commando unit, this globe-trotting melodrama consistently fails to deliver a decent story.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Nov 23, 2022

Echo 3repeatedly pursues the less exciting path, makes the less challenging choice.

Full Review | Nov 23, 2022

It's an engaging series that contains many of the action sequences that one might expect, owing to its premise, though creator Boal clearly has greater ambitions than simply telling a swiftly-moving adventure story.

Full Review | Nov 23, 2022

While those who aren't noted fans of the genre may not be won over by the show, geopolitical action thriller enthusiasts will find plenty to enjoy in Echo 3.

Full Review | Nov 23, 2022

The geopolitical roadblocks add realism...

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 22, 2022

If you’re looking for a military thriller, “Jack Reacher” is more fun. “Echo 3” is a fine enough diversion while viewers wait for better shows to return.

Full Review | Nov 22, 2022