With the possible exception of Hex, this is probably the worst genre television I've ever seen come from the BBC. And, like Hex, I'll probably keep watching, waiting for the corner it'll never turn.
Every episode, it's like when George Costanza was trying to get fired from the Yankees on Seinfeld. All the characters keep doing these horrible, stupid, evil, selfish things, and they just never get thrown out of the clubhouse. If you're the only three teenagers who know the school's on a Hellmouth, or just so happened to be a passenger on the plane that crashed on the mystery island, sure, you're an amateur, and you're stuck, so you get to be an imbecile once in a blue moon. But these people supposedly collect a paycheck?!?!?
And you're right: Barrowman can't act. It's like he's reading the dialogue for an audiobook, with a forced glibness that's supposed to signal that it is dialogue. I expect him to end every sentence with "...Jack said, with a mysterious glint in his eye."
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Date: 2008-01-17 12:09 am (UTC)Every episode, it's like when George Costanza was trying to get fired from the Yankees on Seinfeld. All the characters keep doing these horrible, stupid, evil, selfish things, and they just never get thrown out of the clubhouse. If you're the only three teenagers who know the school's on a Hellmouth, or just so happened to be a passenger on the plane that crashed on the mystery island, sure, you're an amateur, and you're stuck, so you get to be an imbecile once in a blue moon. But these people supposedly collect a paycheck?!?!?
And you're right: Barrowman can't act. It's like he's reading the dialogue for an audiobook, with a forced glibness that's supposed to signal that it is dialogue. I expect him to end every sentence with "...Jack said, with a mysterious glint in his eye."