Take two teaspoons of Rosemary’s Baby, a pinch of The Devil’s Advocate, a generous helping of Terry O’Quinn, mix well and simmer gently. Serve with a little CGI. The result? Meh.
I’m not impressed. I’ll give it a few weeks to see if it has any interesting twists up its sleeve but if it remains as formulaic as the first episode I’ll bid it farewell.
I must not have been expecting too much, but I thought it was all right. I missed the first few minutes however.
Jane, the main female character, looked familiar. It took me like half the episode before I realized I remembered her from Grey’s Anatomy. She was Lucy. I didn’t like her there, but I like her a bit better here. She’s not quite so much a brat here as she was on Grey’s.
Terry O’Quinn is fun wherever I’ve seen him (Lost, Hawaii 5-0) and I’m so happy to see Vanessa Williams in something after Desperate Housewives folded. She’s a bit much, but she was a little over-the-top on Housewives too. 
We’ll have to see how it goes. I have a suspicion it’s not going to make it. What the heck else could ABC put in this timeslot though?
Didn’t the writers learn about *suspense *when they took mystery/horror writing classes?
There’s no hanging question about anything. Every question gets answered almost as soon as it’s raised (sometimes there’s a commercial break between).
Nothing is possibly supernatural here. It’s clear that the supernatural things are. It’s not interesting, and it didn’t pull me in.
This.
I also think they made some really poor casting choices. I like Terry Quin. He just doesn’t strike me as “The Devil”.
Not liking the boyfriend either.
I’ll give it a few episodes to see if they get their footing.
I’d watch Terry Quinn read the phone book.
Its a good popcorn show. I’ll give them a few episodes to get into the evil, but I enjoyed the pure cheesy smarminess.
This inevitably equating “666” with evil, all because of The Number of the Beast stuff is overused.
I don’t know about 666 Park Avenue (there almost certainly is one), but 666 Fifth Avenue was right in the heart of midtown Manhattan, and the building housed some decent businesses, including a bookstore that I liked quite a bit (but now gone – sniff). Of course, it also housed one of those Souffer’s Top of the(wherever) restaurants, the Top of the Sixes. So it’s at least that evil.
I’m rooting against it because I want Terry Quinn to return to Hawaii.
Being over the top is Williams’ schtick.
So someone cast a necromantic circle and resurrected the Top of the Sizes restaurant in NY?
It was always a hoot eating there. [It closed in 95 or 96]
666 Park Avenue is the 2nd, 3rd and 4th floors of 660 Park Avenue.
The exterior shots of 666 Park for the tv show are of the Ansonia on Broadway between 73rd & 74th.
“The Drake” is ostensibly at 999 Park Avenue. It’s only when it casts a shadow the address reads 666 Park Avenue.
That address (999) does not exist. The closest is 993.
And that’s one of the supernatural thing they did - the 999 cast a reverse shadow as 666, but for some reason “Park Avenue” didn’t display as a reversed image.
DC Comics used to have their offices at 666 Fifth Ave.
She was also one of Charlie’s Angels last year. Though you might not have seen that, apparently not many people did, judging by how quickly it was canceled.
Anyway, as for the show, too early to tell, I’d say. I do have concerns that they aren’t really keeping things much of a mystery. We’ve already seen Mr. Locke feeding a guy to a wall for not killing for him, I mean, no doubt about what’s going on here. Maybe should’ve kept things more under wraps and only learn more and more as blondie’s historic research bears fruit.
I liked it, but that may be because it’s the first supernatural show I’ve watched since maybe the old Twilight Zone, so some gimmicks that may be old hat to others are new to me. I’ve never watched Lost, or any of the vampire shows on CW.
Wait, I watched a couple episodes of Alcatraz last season, then lost interest. Did it turn out to be supernatural, or was it cancelled before they explained it?
Watched it last night. I’ll watch at least another couple of episodes. I hope it’s good.
I didn’t hate it; I liked that the blonde main character wasn’t completely stupid. I also liked her doing all the investigating she was doing. I wasn’t too sure about her acceptance of the weird, off-note things going on, but on the one hand, people rarely believe their instincts when they feel something weird is going on, and on the other hand, she and her husband have good incentive to ignore the warning signs (such a great apartment and a job).
OMG. I hate to use that acronym, but unless the ending to this past week’s episode was a dream, just, OMG.
From the previews it seems that Jane is indeed trapped somewhere in The Drake. Seriously, she’s really missing. Whoa.
I would be more than a little pissed with Nona if I was Jane. Um, I get trapped beneath the floor of a haunted/cursed/whatever hotel, and you SEE IT ALL HAPPEN, and can’t be bothered to tell anyone?
Of course, who would believe her? Poor Nona. Screw that, poor Jane!
I really hope this doesn’t get cancelled. It’s too much fun. I’m not saying it’s television entertainment of the highest quality, but seeing as I don’t have cable (I know; I’m a freakin’ dinosaur) it’s pretty cool. 
Is anyone else annoyed by the weaselly little writer guy? I swear they put him on the show just to get directly on my nerves. 
I’ll watch it to see Vanessa Williams.
And the evil Terry Quinn is great.
I’m still in mourning for “Desperate Housewives.” And I had gotten strangely trapped into “GCB” when it just up and evaporated. So I’m hanging onto “666 Park Avenue” to keep from drowning on a Sunday night.
~VOW
I haven’t seen the previews, but don’t be so hard on Nona, since they may be misleading.
The following spoiler gives away the ending so if you open it, you were warned.
[spoiler]Nona’s gramma mysteriously ‘comes to life’ a couple of times in the episode. Apparently she’s catatonic for some mystical reason. At the very end Nona finds Jane and seeks her help to find gramma after she has disappeared during one of these episodes and they find her in the basement which if you will recall is where the dragon mosaic is. Gramma tries to look through Jane’s pendant indicating that the pendant is the dragon’s eye. When Jane places the pendant into the mosaic, the floor opens up. She tells Nona to stay behind and that she was destined to go down these stairs.
Earlier in the episode it was revealed that Jane had been born at the Drake but she has no memory of this even though Nona shows her a picture of her as a little girl taken in the Drake lobby. Now recall that Jane’s mother or grandmother was the wife of one of the people who was involved in the ritual that got the Drake’s spooky mojo going - the same person/ghost who tried to kill Jane on Halloween. That pendant/locket belonged to that woman.
So is this getting good or what?[/spoiler]
As an aside - Wikipedia has an article about the Ansonia Apartments. It has a very interesting history, including the fact that the Continental Baths were located in the basement for a while. Bette Midler, for one, performed there in her early days.
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