I’m starting to worry. Quite a number of the shows that had promise in their pilot episodes are starting to flounder by episode three. We’ve already had the wobbling of Men in Trees, Justice lost a little of its sheen before the hiatus. Now Smith, the TV-watcher’s Heat, is starting to seem a little dull.
Maybe it’s improved since the first three episodes, but for some reason, the SciFi Channel seems likely to renew the not very interesting Eureka/A Town Called Eureka.
Hoozah! I got it right again! Apparently, Vanished operates at my level (worrying thought) because all my predictions for it have been right so far. And man, do those producers have balls, unless there are some miraculous resurrections planned for next week’s episode.
What’s going to happen next? Don’t know. No new predictions yet, other than it’s all going to be silly. But you knew that already.
It had a promising start and it’s continued to be promising. Only a few minor changes since the preview, with one character having been recast – it’s for the better, since the original actor gave one particular relationship a touch of the “Ew!”, so makes the possible adultery intended not quite as inevitable as it was in the pilot.
It’s not quite as clever as when it started – not saying much – but its characters are all reasonably entertaining, people are already starting to pair up and there’s steady plot progression rather than “situation of the week”. It’s like Friends, circa seasons two and three. Not quite as good as Friends season one, but what is? I’m going to carry on watching anyway.
In the UK: Sunday, ITV1, 1st October 2006
In the US: Airing as “Cracker: A New Terror”, October 30th, BBC America
Yes, I know it was on Sunday, but I only watched it last night.
I wasn’t much of a fan of Cracker. It all seemed a bit too forced and unlikely. But I was actually really impressed by Sunday’s one-off special. Maybe that’s because Fitz didn’t have much to do and other characters got more of a look-in.
Read no further Americans, unless you want to spoil yourself.
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