{"id":289,"date":"2010-05-04T10:33:08","date_gmt":"2010-05-04T14:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kafraco.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/happy-town-follow-up\/"},"modified":"2010-05-04T10:43:48","modified_gmt":"2010-05-04T14:43:48","slug":"happy-town-follow-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kafraco.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/happy-town-follow-up\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Happy Town’ follow up"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This isn\u2019t exactly a review because I couldn\u2019t make it through the entire first episode of \u2018Happy Town<\/a>\u2019. A lot of people might not get it, but I found the music derivative of \u2018Eastwyck\u2019 and \u2018Desperate Housewives\u2019 (two shows not really known for the backing music) and extremely distracting. On those brief occasions when I could block out the music, the dialog was filled with heavy exposition. The characters seemed like they were spouting out lines in a script instead of having conversations. After watching a show like ‘Treme<\/a>‘ where everyone seemed to be actually talking with one another, this was painful at times. I finally had to tap out when the secret high school lovers were in the music room. I think they were talking about how life was too short or something, I know they had to give their entire family trees and the reasons behind their “Romeo and Juliet thing” when I realized life was too short to waste on a show I wasn’t liking at all.<\/p>\n

The show wasn\u2019t all bad. The locations and interior sets all looked very good. Some of the actors were good in their roles. MC Gainey<\/a>, Steven Webber<\/a> and Robert Wisdom<\/a> all come to mind as people who were very good in the little that I saw of them. Of course they were all from three of my favorite shows (Lost<\/a>, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip<\/a>, and The Wire<\/a>), so they have built up some good will with me. Amy Acker<\/a> and Sam Neill<\/a> are both fine actors and might have developed interesting characters, but I didn\u2019t see it. Unfortunately, none of the other actors or characters stood out as being particularly good or interesting, which is a shame because I wanted to like the show.<\/p>\n

Happy Town wants to be a truly scary TV show and it may hit its stride after a couple of episodes, but I won\u2019t know because unless I hear glowing reviews from a number of people I know, I won\u2019t be watching any more of it.<\/p>\n

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Image via Wikipedia This isn\u2019t exactly a review because I couldn\u2019t make it through the entire first episode of \u2018Happy Town\u2019. A lot of people might not get it, but I found the music derivative of \u2018Eastwyck\u2019 and \u2018Desperate Housewives\u2019 (two shows not really known for the backing music) and extremely distracting. On those brief […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[27],"tags":[22],"class_list":["post-289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-television"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1x9C8-4F","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kafraco.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kafraco.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kafraco.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kafraco.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kafraco.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.kafraco.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":291,"href":"https:\/\/www.kafraco.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289\/revisions\/291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kafraco.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kafraco.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kafraco.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}