Jumpsuit-wearing, weapon-toting, wisecracking heroes face down supernatural horror. Sock = Bill Murray.
I have a problem with the mom looking about the same age as the son. Not like in “The Graduate,” where Dustin Hoffman was only six years younger than Anne Bancroft, and nothing like the Andy Hardy movies, in which the mother looked much older than Fay Holden’s calandar age, but Bret Harrison looks much older than his supposed 21 (partially because he’s 25, but he looks 35), and Allison Hossack is a very well-kept 42. (RrrrAAArrrrr!)
Maybe if he shaved he’d look younger.
I must confess, I’m not as impressed by the second episode as I was by the pilot episode. I’m hoping that the show needs some time to shake out, because I still think it’s pretty funny. Ray Wise sure makes one hell of a suave Devil, doesn’t he?
Count me in among those disappointed. I think what additionally hurt the episode was the tons of expositionary dialogue. What was up with that? That’s what the flashback at the beginning of the episode is for. I’ve watched the first episode and don’t need to hear in every scene what the characters are doing now.
I think it got better this week. There was some character development and an interesting villain. Oh, and #3 (Billy?) didn’t get knocked out of commission. In fact, he was useful.
I wasn’t thrilled by the episode. I have not removed it from my DVR yet. I will give it a few more weeks. I think I want to like it. 
Jim
Last night was better than week 2, but not as good as week 1. May watch a few more times as there is nothing else on in that time slot, but even last night I was thinking about the book I was in the middle of.
Was almost worth the entire hour for the shot of the devil giving a bright thumbs up while feeding a squirrel! Beautiful!
Obligatory Ghostbusters Reference: The Hero starts up a device that glows, is attached by a cord, and is slid under the ghost who is then sucked into the device.
I wonder if the Work Bench is running a special this week on proton pack charging and containment.
When I first saw commercials for this show, I thought it was a new Ghostbusters series.
I liked this week’s episode. Sock, in particular, cracked me up.
Is anyone a little… distracted by how gorgeous Sam’s female co-worker is? I’m generally pretty ambivalent about how pretty people on TV are, but for some reason I can’t help but think that I don’t usually see people working at Home Depot who could pass for supermodels.
Ep #3 was not good.
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Love story was sappy and predictable. She likes him, he likes her, Satan says its okay - freaking go for it or be done. Any tension seems forced and sitcom-plotty, not legit.
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Vessel breaking and then some sort of *deus ex machina *- okay, Sam just tosses it under the cloud of bugs and - it works as it was supposed to after getting broken - huzzah!
Still has possibilities, but the writing has to tighten up to the premier’s level and beyond…
And yeah, Missy Peregrym is way too freakin’ hot for Home Depot - and I don’t care if I was Satan’s Bounty Hunter, if she was showing interest then Game over - I’d sort out the details later. Horny 21-year-olds don’t have the capacity for restraint, especially when Hottie is making obvious overtures - simply doesn’t compute…
I wouldn’t call seeing a wire hanger in a laundry room and using it to short out the toaster a deus ex machina.
It’s more “he doesn’t know what to do, he doesn’t know how to work the vessel!!” then he somewhat randomly jabs it and tosses it - and it works!! Huzzah!
Same with the RC truck he had last episode - but you could see that he would just use the remote control coming a mile away…
In both cases, the problem with the vessel seems catastrophic…but not really.
At first, I thought it was a big weird that they were using the “The vessel is broken!” thing twice in a row.
But I actually liked it once we found out that the vessel wasn’t broken initially, that they broke it in “fixing” it.
I think the whole idea of the various vessels and Sam and Sock figuring out how to use them is a pretty cool aspect of the show. I also found it really funny for some reason in the second episode how they kept playing with the toy car.
Oh, and I’d be okay with them writing Sam’s other co-worker (someone said he was hispanic) out of the show. The one who was injured in the first two episodes. What, exactly, does he add to the show that Sock doesn’t? Frankly, I thought he was going to die in the first episode and become Reaper’s “Jesse.”
I think the idea of shorting out the toaster was to make it into a super bug zapper. He had just looked at a bug zapper and was musing over it when the idea occured to him.
I really hate it when the first episode of a show is entertaining, and I then keep watching as it descends into the slime, hoping for improvement that never comes, and wasting precious hours of my all-too-short life. I call it the Roswell Effect. I’m not letting this gobbler do that to me.
I liked it, but I think the Kevin Smith 20/30 something stoner dialogue will get stale pretty quick. I’ll stick with it for a few more episodes.
It was a different person in the leaked pilot: Nikki Reed. She was recast. I liked the original girl better. She was “Sadie” in one of the later seasons of the OC, if you want a reference.
I’m enjoying the series so far. We need a scene with the devil reaming out the people who make the vessels “A freaking toaster? You’re making me look like an idiot!”
One thing I really like about the show is how well done the devil is. Just as it seems like we might see an inkling of something sympathetic about him, he shows his true colors. Great scene in the first episode. Devil and Sam standing in the rain. Sam says, “I won’t do this.” Devil turns to him and quietly says, “You WILL do it. Or I’ll take your mother.” Now, that’s evil.
I like how the devil is handled as well, for the same reason.
I also like that he knows perfectly well that God is going to win in the end, yet seems pretty cheerful regardless.