I cry.... I cry a lot...

[lyssie]

Watched the third episode of the highly-touted USA show Touching Evil tonight. Felt horrified at the utter gutting of the original plot. And there's... wow. The baby Jesus? Flayed himself to death over this episode.

There is no mystery, here. It's all about Creegan's Amazing Powers of Deduction! *echo, echo*

It's complete and utter shite.

It's a hundred Mary Sue authors writing under the delusion that they're monkeys writing Shakespeare, but they're all using human feces as paint.

....words just so fucking fail me for how bad this was.

So bad? I MUTED THE TV in the middle of Creegan's pyscho-analytical speech. Even Peter Wingfield breaking so prettily couldn't save it.

Please, people. Don't watch this show. Don't let them think they're winning. Make it so it gets cancelled. Now. Because it's so bad it nearly made my brain try to crawl down to my colon and throttle it.

Write your congressman.

Comments

[ide-cyan.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it looks really bad, from all the spoilers I've read. But my friends who have never seen the original and are huge PW fans were all shocked and awed.

I bet you USA are saving up the Amathus plot for a Very Special Episode about why The Internet Is Teh Bad, OMG!

And the anti-vigilantism message is completely buried, apparently. How, well, American.

[star-maple.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry for not assassinating them when they were outside my apartment then. :(

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

Grah. Yes.

Must not rant.

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

*pats* It's all right. We'll let you live. Besides. It's not the *actors'* faults... Really. Well, mostly.

[ide-cyan.livejournal.com]

Oh, do rant. Rant all you want. :-)