When Six Feet Under ended, we dropped HBO (literally ten minutes after the final episode). The main reason was that I never wanted to be so involved with a television show again. It was a calendar-clearing institution. If it’s not bleeding or burning, it can wait until the show’s over.
I didn’t realize it until this week, but I said goodbye to serial television then too. The evidence resides on my digital video recorder: the first two episodes of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, unviewed and almost two weeks old. It was heavily advertised on a couple of web sites I frequent, and I loved the Terminator movies, so I set it up to record.
Despite good reviews and word-of-mouth from someone whose assessment of such things I trust, apparently I can’t be bothered. I think it’s been on two more times since then, and I didn’t record those, so what’s the point?
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There is no point. We watched the first three or four episodes and it’s just a load of garbage. The writing is bad, the acting is bad and we spent all of the last episode pointing out continuity errors that spanned the whole series thus far. I will be genuinely surprised if it lasts more than the next two episodes.
I cannot be bothered with serialized shows. I’m even pissed when a “Law and Order” show ends with “To Be Continued.”
No mini-series, no serials.
I watched the pilot for “Sarah’s Rage Against the Machine” and two more episodes. Done.
Ang, thanks for the word. I’m particularly sorry to hear that about the writing, as I considered that a subtle strength of all three films.