Damn! After Ep 3 I am done. Like others have said, it's just another X-files - and not even that great. Way too much exposition for the audience. There's no mystery at all. The first episode straight up freaked me out good, though (You know who I mean)! After E1 it's pretty tame and your standard network fare.
shareWe do have something here. It may not find a mass audience, because it is subtle, nuanced and layered. Ben and his sister are poised to be coming on as a strong Middle Eastern addition to this heretofore Christian narrative, with the possession (in which meaning of that word is for now unclear) of her fetus. I am rooting for Ben as the wild card in this deck, though I am loving all the main casting here, including the odious Townsend and the delightful Sheryl (and I admit to a penchant for MILF). My concern is that Evil is too understated to resonate with a mass audience. As one of the priests says, “You’re looking for evil with a capital E.” Plus, John Glover as a guest star! What a character actor.
There is quality here, for a broadcast network series.
Uh, Rollo, when did the X-Files take on The Devil? Really, I am curious, because I stopped watching after the 3rd episode because I was not, you know, 15 years old and it bored me. Space aliens? Yeah, theoretically infinite possibilities, because the universe is infinite. Many possible permutations, many of them bland. The Lord God? The Satan? Only two, both of them piquant.
Not X-Files. Not even close to being X-Files. Not files at all. It’s Scripture.
It is reminiscent of X-files. One believer, one non-believer, and stories left open for your interpretation. It is real, or isn't it.
shareAnd, in that regard, it’s reminiscent of Holmes and Watson, of Gilgamesh and Enkidu, of Conan and Subatai. I am sick unto death of millennials clinging to Buffy and X-Files as their only frames of reference.
shareHow did you assume that. I'm not a Buffy fan, and I'm not a millennial.
shareYou forgot Caligula and Incitatus
shareDon't be pretentious. Robert and Marlene King are smart writers but I very much doubt they were thinking of Gilgamesh when they were creating their network horror show. A far more likely situation is that when they got the idea for "Evil" they followed the well established and respected formula of "The X-Files".
shareMy point is the writers are thinking of archetypes, things older and more well-established than The X-Files. Broaden your horizons, Al.
shareMy point is that they were thinking of "The X Files" which has a basis in older archetypes. Speak more precisely, Kane.
When I'm hungry I think of a hamburger, not a cow.