Grandpa, fixing Herman’s heart.
We have the premiere of the remake of The Munsters, Mockingbird Lane, and a recap of Wednesday’s Chicago Fire. The first is a little long, so we’ll get straight to it!
Mockingbird Lane
This show reminds me of Pushing Daisies. It took me a while to pin down what exactly I liked about it, but that’s it. I was heartbroken when Pushing Daisies got cancelled, so to see something so whimsical and darkly funny on network again is wonderful.
Jerry O’Connell is completely lovable as Herman Munster. His heart literally gets broken because he loves too much. How freakin’ sweet is that.
Marilyn, appreciating the quirks of the new house at 1313 Mockingbird Lane.
Marilyn is way darker than you remember. She doesn’t just accept her family–she really is a part of it. She’s the one that chooses the house at 1313 Mockingbird Lane, even after finding out that it was set to be demolished and previously owned by a serial killer who buried hobos in the backyard. She’s lovely, dark and twisty and a lot of fun to watch.
I love that it sticks to some of the original (Bram Stoker) Dracula lore with the coffins filled with earth and the vamps being able to transform into human form from mist and rats and bats and creatures of the night. Grandpa does go in the sunlight, but I can forgive that because the rest of it is so true to the mythology.
Lily (Portia de Rossi) is beautiful as ever, and much more soft spoken it seems than Lily Munster used to be. She makes her point and stands her ground without being comic or truculent about it.
Herman, Eddie, and Lily, looking up at the dragon.
Eddie is still a werewolf, but he is very afraid of being like the rest of his family. He wants to be normal, like Marilyn. When he finds out that he’s actually a Munster like the rest of them, it takes a dragon and a little talk from Herman to get him to accept it. Though him being the first “vegetarian werewolf” will be interesting to watch.
This is not the Munster family as you remember them. It is a new kind of show–a perfect lead-in for Grimm–with a fun twist on the characters. They have more depth. The special effects are better. They are a more normal (at least, from the outside looking in) family than the original Munster family ever was.
There’s something here, truly. I’m really afraid this show won’t get the ratings and the viewers to stay afloat because it’s so different from the original, but it has something–that je ne sais quoi that is so rare in modern television, people don’t know what to do when they see it.
Casey on the job.
Chicago Fire
Casey has a moral dilemma of whether to falsify his report on an accident that involved one drunk kid (drunk cop’s kid, no less) and another kid who was left paralyzed, and Severide sleeps with the new office assistant who happens to be engaged, as we later find out.
The big story, though, is Severide’s injury. It’s severe, to say the least, which explains why he’s been shooting himself with so many pain killers. However, his concern is missing work or getting put on disability. Rather than try to fix the problem and go on a long and painful recovery period, his plan is pretty much same as before–more painkillers. This is so going to come back and bite him on the ass later on.
The cop whose kid caused the accident begins coming after Casey to get him to retract his statement. At the end of the episode, the cop drives by while the guys are all at the new candidate’s mom’s restaurant to watch the football game. It’s clear that we haven’t seen/heard the last from this creep. And apparently, he’s not a creep you want to be on the bad side of.
Up Next:
Recap of Thursday night’s shows: Last Resort and Beauty and the Beast. Stay tuned!
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