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Writer's Block: Gone but Not Forgotten
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cassandraterra started it :)
The Dead Zone was brilliant in its first two seasons. Yes, I said brilliant. The third season was just very good. The fourth and fifth season were spotty -- the promise of the end of season three didn't quite materialize -- but the show was still good and seemed to be perfectly capable of getting back on track. But the sixth season was a disaster. The show didn't just "jump the shark." The shark pulled it under, ripped out its entrails, and flung it back to shore as a bloodless zombie of its former self. Its death was a relief.
Raines is one of the best shows ever made that never found its audience (except for me and Hubby and too few others). NBC didn't have a clue how to market it, so they advertised it as a slapstick comedy. It was so much more than that, and had so much promise, but it lasted one season. Jeff Goldblum gave it his all, and he may never have such a great role again. I'd buy it on DVD in a heartbeat (hint, hint).
Touching Evil, the American adaptation of the British series. One of the few American-inspired-by-British shows that actually improved on the original. Jeffrey Donovan has never been better (even on his current, and excellent, show, Burn Notice.) The first and only season roughly followed the course of the complete British series, and it works as a stand-alone, but it would have been wonderful to see where the creators would have gone from there. I'd go for that DVD set too.
cassandraterra started it :)The Dead Zone was brilliant in its first two seasons. Yes, I said brilliant. The third season was just very good. The fourth and fifth season were spotty -- the promise of the end of season three didn't quite materialize -- but the show was still good and seemed to be perfectly capable of getting back on track. But the sixth season was a disaster. The show didn't just "jump the shark." The shark pulled it under, ripped out its entrails, and flung it back to shore as a bloodless zombie of its former self. Its death was a relief.
Raines is one of the best shows ever made that never found its audience (except for me and Hubby and too few others). NBC didn't have a clue how to market it, so they advertised it as a slapstick comedy. It was so much more than that, and had so much promise, but it lasted one season. Jeff Goldblum gave it his all, and he may never have such a great role again. I'd buy it on DVD in a heartbeat (hint, hint).
Touching Evil, the American adaptation of the British series. One of the few American-inspired-by-British shows that actually improved on the original. Jeffrey Donovan has never been better (even on his current, and excellent, show, Burn Notice.) The first and only season roughly followed the course of the complete British series, and it works as a stand-alone, but it would have been wonderful to see where the creators would have gone from there. I'd go for that DVD set too.