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Wow. What a lead turd. Much like the zombies, this episode lurched from one scene to another, and there were times I felt visually disoriented because of shifts from one scene and case to the other. Worse yet, the science was given short shrift in the name of very patchy atmosphere. The opening scene in the graveyard was fantastic, and it was all downhill from there.
The "Amityville" case was so labored that I composed this ditty in its honor:
Gotta move the plot, so it's time to explicate
Only thing slower is watching flies copulate
If I clench any harder, my sphincter will herniate.
Stop!! Channel-surfin' time.
Anna Belknap has no business carrying scenes. She can't. Even her fear is lackluster, and it's an indictment when a child actor outclasses her from a hospital bed.
Not that Mac was much better. Physically intimidating witnesses? Blurting personal information to strangers? Either Mac has gone around the bend, or that was the laziest infodump in the history of TV. There are more deft ways to handle foreshadowing. The entire voodoo shop scene was an overacted cliche that was embarrassing to watch. I wonder if the clunkiness of this episode is an effect of the Writers' Guild strike that begins tomorrow. Maybe they rushed filming in order to have episodes in reserve when the writers walk out.
And if there is ever a night take advantage of Flack's sarcasm, it's Halloween. Yet he's noticeably MIA.
Boo is right.
D
The "Amityville" case was so labored that I composed this ditty in its honor:
Gotta move the plot, so it's time to explicate
Only thing slower is watching flies copulate
If I clench any harder, my sphincter will herniate.
Stop!! Channel-surfin' time.
Anna Belknap has no business carrying scenes. She can't. Even her fear is lackluster, and it's an indictment when a child actor outclasses her from a hospital bed.
Not that Mac was much better. Physically intimidating witnesses? Blurting personal information to strangers? Either Mac has gone around the bend, or that was the laziest infodump in the history of TV. There are more deft ways to handle foreshadowing. The entire voodoo shop scene was an overacted cliche that was embarrassing to watch. I wonder if the clunkiness of this episode is an effect of the Writers' Guild strike that begins tomorrow. Maybe they rushed filming in order to have episodes in reserve when the writers walk out.
And if there is ever a night take advantage of Flack's sarcasm, it's Halloween. Yet he's noticeably MIA.
Boo is right.
D