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Featuring Captain America, Iron Man and Thor as The Powerpuff Girls, as well as some guest villains. And why not?
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There are shows that despite essentially having an incredibly stupid premise actually turn out to be quite smart. Consider Prison Break, created by Paul Scheuring, in which an architect gets himself arrested so he can be incarcerated in the same prison as his death-row brother. Because he’s also the architect who designed the prison and has developed an intricate plan to get them both out of jail together – which he’s had tattooed onto his entire body.
Incredibly stupid premise, yet at times, it was actually quite smart, with intricate plotting, fun characters and tension aplenty.
Yet there are also shows that despite essentially having an incredibly stupid premise actually turn out to be absolutely stark staring bonkers insane.
Consider Zero Hour, created by – oh look – Paul Scheuring, in which Anthony Edwards’ wife gets abducted after she buys the wrong clock in a market. It turns out that it’s all part of a sinister conspiracy, involving the Rosicrucians, possibly the second coming or is it the anti-Christ, Nazis, reincarnation, 12 clocks, one for each of the apostles, and an unintelligible international terrorist. Only Edwards, together with a noble band of sceptical journalists, can save her and the world.
Yes, if you thought Dan Brown’s Da Vinci Code wasn’t far reaching enough in its implications and Angels and Demons was just too plausible, have I got a show for you… and it’s possibly the stupidest, worst written show since the dawn of time.
Here’s a trailer:
There’s a new viral video dance going around called the Harlem Shake. And a lot of people on TV doing it…
Hannibal Lecter helps Will Graham to catch a serial killer is, of course, the plot to the great movie Manhunter. Now Bryan Fuller – who created Pushing Daisies and wrote a lot of the best episodes of Heroes – has created a prequel to that movie, showing how Hannibal used to help Graham on cases, before, of course, Graham had him locked up. It stars Mads Mikkelsen of Casino Royale fame as Hannibal and here’s a trailer. It’s going to air on Thursdays, 10pm EST on NBC, starting April 4 and be cancelled about three weeks afterwards, this being NBC n’all.
What do you think?
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