DVR Cleaning: My Name Is Earl, Heroes, Worst Week [series premiere]
By fred | September 28, 2008
Claire
Jesus! So writers have really decided to send big “fuck you”’s to whoever was stupid enough to watch the show from its first season or what?? No, Claire, you little bitch, you never felt anything. At least not pain. Where the fuck did that come from?? If she really felt pain, like anybody else, she wouldn’t have done so many suicide attempts jumping from bridges, running into fire, putting her hands into boiling water and whatnot, because that just hurts. Like Hell.
It really does, and you scream about it and, if given the choice, even if your body regenerates just fine within seconds after, you don’t do it again. But she did, constantly, she cut her fingers and didn’t feel nothing. She woke up her chest wide open after going through an autopsy and just “closed herself up” and left, it never meant anything to her, not for two seasons, so coming up with this crap now like that, is pure BS.
And her little rant about “am I even human anymore, do I have a soul” and shit, oh please… are they trying to fake any spiritual dimension in this show now?? And is it me or can she really not act??
Heroes
You know how people loved to make fun of Lost and say that writers had no idea how it would end and kept adding one mystery on top of the others ? Right, well since then they know exactly how many episodes are left, they have a big story and an ending in mind and it clearly shows on screen. Heroes on the other hand really feels like they have absolutely no idea where they are going with this show, what story they want to tell, nothing.
So they keep redoing the same, adding new characters to “save the world”, coming up with new villains to replace the old new ones, but maybe they should think about what the show is supposed to be about, what the story is supposed to be, where this is all going, because so far they clearly don’t have a clue, and it really shows.
Worst Week: Pilot [series premiere]
(S0101) I didn’t know much about this show before I watched this episode, but I had heard the idea behind it - a man on a strike of bad luck tries to impress the parents of his future wife, without ever quite succeeding… - and saw a promo clip, and quite frankly I thought it looked bad. Really bad in fact, so much that I was prepared to find this show completely unwatchable and drop out before the end of the episode.
I did not, far from it, and I actually laughed many times. Quite a pleasant surprise it was to find out that this episode was actually pretty fun, and or more than one occasion managed to generate the laughs. But I still wonder, however, about the future of the show. Because if I have to be honest, we know from the start that the basic idea is that no matter what he does, no matter how hard he tries and how well intentioned he might be, Sam will always fail.
This will go south, bad luck will come his way and in the end things will always backfire and hit him in the head. Just within the 22 minutes of this episode, we all got this idea, and as a result very rapidly we knew what was coming. The show becomes extremely predictable because we know he’ll try to do something nice, help someone, but it won’t work and he’ll end up looking like a fool one way or another.
The show’s crazy enough and Sam a nice likable guy so that it works, for a little while, but by the end of this episode only it was getting old already. We know how things will go down, and if for half an hour it was fun, by the end of it it’s getting old, and if that’s how every episode will be constructed I’m worried people will get bored quite fast.
I’m not sure you can get a full season (much less more) out of such a concept, but I’m willing to find out. Either way, this sure sounds like it should be fun for a while…
Posted in Reviews
Shows: Heroes, My Name Is Earl, Worst Week
