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Blood Drive - Season 1
Set in a near-dystopian future, the series features a former cop, who is forced to take part in a death race in which cars run on human blood as fuel.
24 December 1969, Cape Town, South Africa
19 April 1982, South Africa
12 August 1978, Hong Kong
7 May 1991, Johannesburg, South Africa
7 August 1984, Newcastle, South Africa
20 October 1985, South Africa
June 14, 2017
It is miles ahead of Sharknado (which also lives on Syfy) and on the whole well-produced and directed, though its effectiveness varies from episode to episode and even from sequence to sequence.
June 13, 2017
The channel has recently favored slick, futuristic dramas, full of gleaming cities and high concepts, but Blood Drive is a gleeful detour into grindhouse gore and raunch.
June 14, 2017
In a medium prone to artistic pretensions, some realized and some damningly elusive, there's some value in a show that just aspires to be a bloody, leering, disreputable hoot and largely succeeds.
June 13, 2017
Like any good Grindhouse affair, Blood Drive is a cacophony of bloodshed, debauchery, and puerile humor, and it's infinitely more fun than it's actually good. Fortunately, it's a lot of fun if you have the right disposition.
June 12, 2017
The sets are pretty cool, which may sound like I'm being flippant, and I am, but because that's exactly what the designers are going for.
June 14, 2017
If grindhouse TV wants to thrive in the medium, it needs to put its shocks and flesh in service of something more than a game of perpetual provocation and one-upmanship.
June 14, 2017
While it is no heir to what Rodriguez and Tarantino did, Blood Drive is an indulgent Grindhouse for all the modern direct-to-video goofiness and weirdness you can only watch at home now anyway.
