Since I don’t have much new information or commentary to add regarding this week’s episodes of Last Resort or Up All Night, I will focus on the CW’s new remake show, Beauty and the Beast.
Beauty and the Beast
First of all, I don’t know why I wanted to watch this show. I have a love/hate relationship with Kristen Kreuk (loved her in Eurotrip as Fiona, but absolutely hated her in Smallville). The show sounded a little silly–yet another semi-paranormal/fantasy television show in the CW line-up. I didn’t even know it was a remake until a few days ago–Linda Hamilton (aka Sarah Connor from the Terminator films, aka awesome hardcore lady) starred in the original.
Opening scene is pretty heavy–Kristen Kreuk’s character Catherine “Cat” Chandler watches her mother die at the hands of a couple of gunmen, seemingly unmotivated, a strange man/beast rescues her just as she is about to be killed herself. She didn’t realize it was a man and not an animal until years later.
Instead of pursuing law school, she becomes a cop, and one of her new cases involves the person of a man named Vincent Keller, whom she discovers to be the “beast” who saved her the night her mother died.
It’s pretty intense action at times. The dialogue is a little dull and unimaginative sometimes. And watching it on the CW’s website is a nightmare because their video player runs the exact same ads over and over, like the same one three times in a single commercial break. One of the best things, though, is the soundtrack. Very modern, very appropriate for the scenes it plays it. Good job on that, CW.
Vincent’s “transformation” is a result of a military experiment called Operation Muirfield which makes him stronger, with enhanced sensory abilities, but also turns him into a monstrous-looking creature. However, like a beastly Batman, he wanders the streets at night and tries to use these abilities for good.
Meanwhile, he is trying to find an antidote or formula that will reverse the effects of the injections he was given in the military and re-humanize himself. Despite his attempts to use his strengths for the benefit of his fellow city-dwellers, he cannot control his strength entirely and can go “berserker”, so to speak, making him more like a dangerous, rabid animal than an intelligent human weapon.
All in all, it’s on par with the type of show that the CW has been putting out lately. Dark setting, young, pretty people, mysterious tall dark handsome guy and pretty girl. It’s not a bad show if you like cop shows, pretty people, or CW dramas.
It airs at the same time as Elementary and Scandal (if I previously stated it aired in competition with Grey’s Anatomy, consider this a correction), but if those don’t float your boat and you’re looking for something to fill that timeslot on Thursday nights, you may want to give Beauty and the Beast a try. It’s not for everyone, but it’s not bad, it’s got good music, decent actors (despite bad dialogue), and decent plot.
(I’m going to implement a star rating system soon–when I can find the time to put it together–so you won’t have to interpret my posts as much. Look for that soon–I hope!)
Next week:
Looking ahead, we’ve got another presidential debate on Tuesday which clears the evening’s schedule of most regular programming except for MTV’s new show, Underemployed, so I will be flipping over to check that out.
Also, it’s World Series season, so Fox is covering a lot of games, meaning that The Mob Doctor is off the air until November (just FYI). It could also mean interruptions in the schedule for New Girl as well, but I haven’t checked that far ahead.
All the regular Tuesday programs are set to return October 23, along with a couple of my ABC comedy favorites, Happy Endings and Don’t Trust the B—- in Apt. 23. My next day catch-ups for Tuesdays are going to be REALLY long now!
Also, we have the season 2 premiere of American Horror Story: Asylum on FX on Wednesday. If you haven’t checked out the first five minutes released on Facebook, get your hiney over to their page and watch! Eerily sexually charged horror–exactly what we’ve come to expect from AHS.
Can’t wait to get committed and check myself in for the season!
Are you prepared for this season’s American Horror Story?
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