We are getting a lot of this lately: promising pilot that puts interesting themes on the table (serial killers, wacko-like cult, dark literature, Poe...) only to throw everything off the window.
The serial killer is supposed to be obsessed with Poe's work; he's killed quite a few young ladies just to enjoy the beauty of death in their eyes, blah blah blah. But once he's on the loose he just doesn't seem to feel the need anymore. All he wants is his wife back, apparently. For all the potential the character has (deeply disturbed manipulative psychopath, cult leader, Gothic literature Phd or whatever), most of the time he's just a regular folk walking around a house (that by the way looks nothing like a house inhabited exclusively by lunatics might look), occasionally embarrassing himself with a cheap impersonation of Hannibal Lecter ("I certainly felt a... rushhhhh" -- how terrible!).
It all feels like the writers had a somewhat good idea, produced the pilot and once the show got approved they had no clue of what to do with it and went for lazy, clichéd writing. Dumb characters making idiotic decisions, totally incompetent FBI agents just waiting for the oh so tortured dark hero to figure everything out just in time for the baddies to get away after a chase and some gunfire, enough deux ex machina to bury all the cast below it.
This should have been profound, dark and disturbing give the themes, but its just a childish soap opera in the end. Makes "Criminal Mind" looks like "Silence of the Lambs".
Avoid. Seriously.
The serial killer is supposed to be obsessed with Poe's work; he's killed quite a few young ladies just to enjoy the beauty of death in their eyes, blah blah blah. But once he's on the loose he just doesn't seem to feel the need anymore. All he wants is his wife back, apparently. For all the potential the character has (deeply disturbed manipulative psychopath, cult leader, Gothic literature Phd or whatever), most of the time he's just a regular folk walking around a house (that by the way looks nothing like a house inhabited exclusively by lunatics might look), occasionally embarrassing himself with a cheap impersonation of Hannibal Lecter ("I certainly felt a... rushhhhh" -- how terrible!).
It all feels like the writers had a somewhat good idea, produced the pilot and once the show got approved they had no clue of what to do with it and went for lazy, clichéd writing. Dumb characters making idiotic decisions, totally incompetent FBI agents just waiting for the oh so tortured dark hero to figure everything out just in time for the baddies to get away after a chase and some gunfire, enough deux ex machina to bury all the cast below it.
This should have been profound, dark and disturbing give the themes, but its just a childish soap opera in the end. Makes "Criminal Mind" looks like "Silence of the Lambs".
Avoid. Seriously.