'Beneath You'
[NAFDA] "There will be an occasional happy, so that it might be crushed under the boot of the writer." From Zorro to Angel (including Wonderfalls, The Inside and Drive), this is where Buffistas come to anoint themselves in the bloodbath.
LOL. I was just complaining about how people are battling with "Others" while stranded on an island on ABC; whispering with ghosts and struggling in a post-nuclear world on CBS; flying and jumping ahead in time on NBC; driving around the country, fighting ghosts and ghouls on the CW; and seeing the future on USA. Come on now.
Perzactly!
And I actually think they've done a pretty good job of making the plotline sustainable. At least so far.
I agree. I really liked the second season.
Yahoo TV's offering up the first 4 minutes, 38 seconds. Dunno where you should go if you watch it and talk about it, but there you go!
Oooh! I will resist. Too much of a tease. I can wait a few more days! I can!
Well the Hollywood Reporter's review is a hell of a lot better than Variety's.
I had to watch the first 4 minutes. Is it Sunday yet?!
I haven't been following the coverage for Drive very closely but I think that one of the reasons it's being called outlandish is because the premise points towards a convoluted backstory for the race; to make sense of it, you have to imagine huge conspiratorial machinations and that can lead one to a Da Vinci Code kind of place.
Incidentally, Tim Goodman had an offhand mention of Drive in his column today and basically indicated it was a spring burnoff and had no chance of survival.
That doesn't seem in keeping with the promo energy Fox has put into it, but I can't think of a lot of spring debut shows that have succeeded. Mid-season, yes. Buffy was itself a midseason debut show.
Wasn't Grey's Anatomy a spring premiere?
Yep. March 27th 2005.
Tamara, yep! A very very successful one.
My theory is, no network is burning anything off it they have it scheduled during May sweeps.
June yes.
May no way.
There has been lots of Fox energy behind this one. They must like it. I'm excited.
Also, speculatively, about this:
once the race has been run, then what?
There was an (intriguing? misleading? confusing?) reference in one of those profiles that said: it's been Corinna's lifelong obsession to find out what's behind the race. That's a long race. I'm just saying.
and of course, who says that the race ends at the end of Season 1? The premise seems elastic both in terms of duration and number of characters and storylines.