Interesting article. I usually love watching shows about the supernatural. I was a big fan of the X-Files, Buffy, and Angel. But this latest batch is incredibly dull and poorly written.
NBC's Medium stars Patricia Arquette. She plays Allison Dubois, a criminal consultant and mother of three who solves crimes by relying upon clairvoyant insights.
I couldn't get past the halfway point of the pilot, it's incredibly lame.
This week, Fox tweaked an infernal concept and unveiled Point Pleasant, a teen drama that continues in the Devil's Spawn tradition of The Bad Seed, Rosemary's Baby and The Omen. ... Nobody, including Christina, realizes she is actually Satan's daughter.
I wish it was as interesting as that sounds. It's the O.C., with a "spooky" couple of characters, which happen to be extremely boring, and set in NJ. The only weird thing about it is that the sun sets over the "Atlantic" ocean. It's a pathetic show about which teen or parent sleeps with whom this week.
HBO's Carnivale, which recently returned to TMN for a second season, is built around the same ultimate battle. Does anybody care?
Carnivale is interesting enough. Only problem is, the pace is glacial. Nothing happens, ever. At this pace, the conficlt will
begin in about 5 seasons and be resolved when I'm 90.
Even new TV shows steeped within a scientific framework resonate with a strange, paranormal feel. CBS's Numb3rs, which debuts tomorrow, is essentially a crime procedural. The twist here is that the brother of one FBI agent is actually a math phenom who uses his prodigious gift to help solve crimes.
I'm looking forward to this show. According to a site jzs posted, CBS is really trying to get the math right. If they do, it will have nothing supernatural about it and will seem like "magic" only if you don't understand the math, which says more about the viewer than about the show.
