3%: Season 1 Reviews
Alamin Yohannes Tell-Tale TV
While the high stakes of survival and shocking twists throughout the process make 3% compelling, the show's greatest asset is its young cast. Each candidate has their own personality and history that add complications to the process.
Full Review | Mar 4, 2019
Thrillist Entertainment Staff Thrillist
The Elysium-like premise is explored with real emotional depth, and director César Charlone, the cinematographer responsible for City of God's stunning visuals, shoots everything with a gritty glow.
Full Review | Mar 2, 2019
Vikram Johri Scroll.in
What works in the series's favour is the elaborate backgrounds bestowed on the characters.
Full Review | Mar 2, 2019
Matthew Byrd Screen Rant
When 3% isn't making thoughtful observations about the human race and how we wall ourselves off from one another, its dazzling you with clever moments and genuinely shocking twists all designed to keep you hopelessly hooked.
Full Review | Mar 2, 2019
Ben Arnold Guardian
What it lacks in production dollars it makes up for in the compulsive viewing stakes.
Full Review | Mar 1, 2019
Craig Thomas Den of Geek
While the dystopian sci-fi market has been particularly saturated for the last few years, 3% manages to reference a number of cultural touchstones in the genre, whilst bringing something fresh and interesting to the table.
Full Review | Mar 1, 2019
Adam White Daily Telegraph (UK)
3% wants to be a story about privilege and the groups rendered voiceless in a capitalist, patriarchal society. But it's weighed down by its devotion to a genre that often places cold visuals and nonsensical world-building over anything else.
Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 1, 2019
Tayci Stallings Black Girl Nerds
If 3% is indicative of Brazilian talent, then I need more.
Full Review | Mar 1, 2019
Josh Jackson Paste Magazine
Part pyschological thriller, part sci-fi morality play, the eight-episode series is full of characters on both sides of the test, struggling to win a chance at a better life without abandoning their principles.
Full Review | May 22, 2018
Elena Nicolaou Refinery29
The Brazilian show will itch the Hunger Games scratch, but still add an entirely new element of excitement.
Full Review | May 8, 2018
Beth Elderkin io9.com
It's admittedly not the most original concept at its core... But 3% has a powerful and unique human story that begins to reveal itself in later episodes.
Full Review | May 8, 2018
Scott Beggs Nerdist
The true test of a binge-worthy show like this is how badly you want the next episode to start, and with 3% there's no need to bother with the remote, except to occasionally tell Netflix that, yes, of course, you're still watching.
Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | May 8, 2018
Liz Shannon Miller indieWire
"3%" brings with it some unique elements and compelling characters, plus a strong take on the social implications of the premise.
Full Review | Original Score: B+ | May 8, 2018
Eddie Strait The Daily Dot
The show is obviously setting up a long-term payoff by the way the story is structured, but playing coy with the details ends up burning the creative team because none of it is particularly compelling.
Full Review | Jan 11, 2018
Calum Henderson New Zealand Herald
The characters are the show's strongest point, though, and it skilfully introduces the six core candidates throughout The Process' preliminary challenges in the first episode.
Full Review | Dec 13, 2017
Melissa Camacho Common Sense Media
Dystopian thriller has a good story, violent moments.
Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 3, 2017
Joseph Falcone We Got This Covered
3%, Netflix's futuristic sci-fi thriller, appears destined to remain in viewers' queues unfinished or unwatched.
Full Review | Original Score: 4/10 | Dec 18, 2016
Pilot Viruet Vice
The reason why 3% works so well... is that it feels more personal and emotionally driven, easing us into connecting with characters who eventually become far more than their pilot-episode characteristics.
Full Review | Dec 16, 2016
Inkoo Kang MTV
The uneven but compelling 3% argues for hemispheric resonance by making a farce out of - and mining terrific suspense from - the myth of deserved affluence, the obvious corollary of which is deserved poverty.
Full Review | Dec 16, 2016
Adi Robertson The Verge
3% shows just enough of a new reality that it leaves viewers wanting more.
Full Review | Dec 16, 2016