Vanished: I knew it was going to be silly

31 August 2006 Rob Buckley News, US TV 2 Comments

Vanished, currently airing in the US Mondays on Fox and popping up on Five US come October, is going to be very, very silly, I’ve found out.
Ostensibly an investigation into the kidnapping of a US senator’s wife, there were hints in the first episode that a certain amount of silliness was going to manifest itself. But never in my wildest dreams did I imagine they’d have the balls to try this particular piece of “mallet to the back of the head” creativity.
Full details are over on CSI Files if you want to spoil yourself. Go on: it might help you make up your mind on whether you’d like to watch the show or not.
Second episode potted review: not as interesting as the first episode, just as predictable (bar a couple of minor surprises), but not quite as mind-numbingly stupid as the first episode either. Third-episode verdict next week.

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    I’m Rob Buckley, a journalist who writes for UK media magazines that most people have never heard of although you might have heard me on the podcast Lockdown Land or Radio 5 Live’s Saturday Edition or Afternoon Edition. I’ve edited Dreamwatch, Sprocket and Cambridge Film Festival Daily; been technical editor for TV producers magazine Televisual; reviewed films for the short-lived newspaper Cambridge Insider; written features for the even shorter-lived newspaper Soho Independent; and was regularly sarcastic about television on the blink-and-you-missed-it “web site for urban hedonists” The Tribe. Since going freelance, I've contributed to the likes of Broadcast, Total Content + Media, Action TV, Off The Telly, Action Network, TV Scoop and The Custard TV.

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