There was some other thing on from 8 to 8:30, then the Jeopardy rerun. They (local NBC affil) do this sort of garbage all the time. The first half of Season 2 of Community was preempted more often than it actually aired. I suspect they had this thing lined up back when Community was supposed to be starting on fridays by now, the rat bastards.
Ditto. Teeing off on him as if he drowned a bag of kittens and kicked handicapped children out of the way to get to the river.
He’s okay. The show with Belushi was pretty good. Koosh was a dick to Jerry McGuire, but I don’t hold that against the actor.
Herman looks less like a Frankensteins monster then a perv into autoerotic asphyxiation.
Eddie Izzard in men’s clothing? Kinky!
Really, though, it’s that they did not bring over the dynamic that made the Munster family so much fun: Despite their origins and appearances they were wholesome and normal. They did not win that American Average Family contest by a fluke. They were a sweet extended family, and the writers played off that. By going edgier, but not completely off-the-wall like The Addams Family, Mockingbird Lane just became boring. I didn’t like or care for any of the characters.
Grandpa’s “old” makeup looked like someone had applied the latex with a toothbrush, Portia de Rossi is rather fetching as a brunette in spiderwebs, and Charity Wakefield has much more range than Pat Priest but (and?) lacks her artificially-perfect features. If the original Herman looked like he was assembled out of spare parts in a dungeon Marilyn looked like she was ordered out of a catalog.
The scene at the end when Izzard had the artificial heart hooked up to the scoutmaster making him into his own personal juice box was great. Grandpa’s drinking again! Like a chery on top of a sundae…
I liked it. I wish it had been picked up as a series. There were rough patches, but they also had some very good parts and I can see that it had potential.
I absolutely loved the visuals (Jerry O’Connell’s entrance in silhouette was perfect, I rewound it and watched it again.) They were obviously finding their way with the tone, but I think it could have gotten there.
I think I would have liked it.
Too bad.
They hinted that Marilyn was the most monstrous of them all. Was this explored, or is it just a backhanded way of calling her “normal”?
Marylin had so much potential. A wolf in sheep’s clothing. Like every serial killer of modern times. “She seemed so normal, just kept to herself, so quiet…”
Loved it, loved every little bit of it. They even have a reason for the dragon.
If you haven’t seen it, here is a link to it on Hulu.com: http://www.hulu.com/watch/417829
This is my appraisal too. I liked it, and think it wouldbe fun to watch. A lot of the other supernatural themed shows I just can’t get into, as they’re too dour and grim, but this I like.
If you haven’t seen it, here is a link to it on Hulu.com: http://www.hulu.com/watch/417829
Wow. That’s a pretty forceful condemnation of someone I would consider to be a solid C- actor. He didn’t steal your lunch money back in the day, did he? I do, however, have to agree with you that the man must have some truly astonishing dirt on the right people, given that he has arranged for his no-talent brother Charlie to have an acting career. You wanna see a genuine mountain of suck in action? Charlie’s your man.
O’Connell would have to be 300% better to be a barely F actor. I have no idea who Charlie is, though.
Not overly impressed, and it was really was a failed attempt at The Addams Family in Munster suits.
The Addams Family were a group of very weird people who thought that everyone else reveled in their weirdness; the Munsters were a very mundane family who didn’t understand why people might think they weren’t mundane.
This was a very weird family who knew everyone thought they were weird and didn’t care. So you had the Addams weirdness but not their oblivious to the impression they gave.
It helped that Bryan Fuller was involved, but he’s more attuned to cute weird rather than serious weird.
O’Connell – an actor who isn’t terrible, but is far from memorable – was bland as Herman and doesn’t really fit in with the series. Portia de Rossi was inspired casting as Lily, but the script gave her next to nothing to do. Only Eddie Izzard brought the character completely to life. Marilyn and Eddie were undistinguished.
If it’s picked up, it needs to show more than what it already has.
DeRossi and Izzard ruled the screen. I liked the new take on Herman. Jerry is an everyman actor, and thus he fit fine.
Overall, I am going to give it another shot.
I liked it. Sad to see it won’t be a series. My Eddie looked horrific and for a split second I thought “Omg! Is he sick? He has let himself go!” Then I realized “Oh Dummy, he’s playing an old vampire–he’s supposed to be scary not sparkly.”
Portia was good and I like Jerry O’Connell, frankly.
Did you also notice, at the end after he’d exsanguinated the scout leader, he looked young (well, Eddie Izzard age, at least) again?
I kind of liked the shifted dynamics: Grandpa is firmly in charge, Herman is an outsider in his own family, Lily and Eddie strive to suppress their monstrous urges. And I actually loved this take on Marilyn; she* looks *normal but there’s definitely a lot of darkness there. “Well, then, they’ve found homes now, haven’t they?” These could all be very interesting characters if given a chance to develop further.
And Eddie Izzard absolutely ruled the screen.
This is a great observation. It was odd, because it wasn’t the old version.
I’m not sure how I feel about it. I like Jerry O’Connell. This was just awkward.