My Own Worst Enemy: Breakdown [series premiere]
By fred | October 14, 2008
(S01E01) Have you ever heard of Dr Jekyll and Mister Hyde ? Of course you have, it’s a very well-known story, and that’s exactly why it was chosen by NBC as premise for their latest new series, My Own Worst Enemy. Unfortunately, that’s about exactly how this originate, Ben Silverman had one of his “brilliant” idea, basically to list “the most engaging stories ever told” and just make TV shows out of them.
So here we are, with Christian Slater starring as the two main characters of the show trapped inside one man’s body : Edward, the cool kick-ass spy with no moral, and Henry, your average Joe with a boring office work, a wife and two kids. But they are one and the same, and while Edward was the only one to know about this unusual situation, this all changed during the first installment of the show.
And yes, it sounds like a pretty cool idea. And it is one.
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Shows: My Own Worst Enemy
In Series: My Own Worst Enemy Season 1
(S01E02) I was really not impressed with the pilot, or even the premise of this new series. But I decided to tune back in this week just to see whether it would improve or on the contrary get worse, and I’ll admit I was a little curious to see what an episode would look like, now that the pilot had all the action to put in place the whole deal with Edward and Henry both stuck into the same body.