Review of October Road

The Pros and Cons of Upsetting the Applecart are clearly displayed in October Road. That is if, the applecart represents the thousands of viewers flipping their channel to ABC every Thursday, hoping that the small-town drama would get at least a little bit better. It never did. I do, however, applaud the show for not staying consistent. Why isn't that a bad thing? Because when a show is so awful that you have a hard time sticking it out till the end, consistent is the last thing that said show wants to be. Every once and a while the show would have a good piece of writing, or a tiny sample of good acting. But overall, the show left a lot to be desired!

Something that struck me about this show, from the beginning, is that they never failed to have a sappy montage set to folksy music, at the end of every single episode. I'm not sure what the writers expected this to add. Maybe charm, or that tear jerking feeling everyone gets whenever the song "You'll Be In My Heart" is played while a slide-show of poor, starving orphans is displayed. Whatever the goal, they failed. Because the effect that each montage had on me, was making me want to turn the channel to Two and a Half Men, and I really really hate that show.

So, quick sum up: There is nothing about this show that makes it worth watching. Except, maybe the pizza girl storyline, because that was adorable.