I must say you're wrong. Won't you listen to me?

[stillsostrange]

Cod help me, I tried watching the new Criminal Minds/Criminal Waste spin-off thing. Wow, that's bad. There is not an unstilted line of dialogue in the first episode (except possibly Garcia's). The script is so bad Forest Whitaker* can't even breathe! Michael Kelly's character backstory assaults the viewer with stupidity, like being backhanded with a fistful of dumb. Janeane Garofalo, I will buy you a new water heater!

I badly need to watch Ghost Dog and Mystery Men to get this taste out of my mouth.


* An alarming insight into my psyche: The Crying Game has forever conflated Forest Whitaker in cricket whites with orgasm for me. Yeah. Good luck not thinking about that.

Comments

[lanerobins.livejournal.com]

The sad thing is that the plot wasn't terrible. It was just beaten into oblivion by the dialogue, the bizarre directing, and whatever Forest Whitaker was doing instead of acting. (And I'm usually a FW fan.)

Not to mention: government puppy pile at the end? WTF?

[galeni.livejournal.com]

My daughter and I watched it, periodically looking at each other in dismay. It never made me care about any of the characters. At all. And it feels as if there are too many characters, too.

Did like Garofalo's delivery, even the words seemed dumb.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Thank you for taking one for the team here. I have been intending to let other people tell me whether it's worth a try, and you're very obliging to do so, though I wish the answer was different.

[mcurry.livejournal.com]

I finally watched it a couple of days ago, and was pretty much horrified, despite low expectations. Crappy writing, too many undistinguishable characters on the team, visually ugh....just all around bad. I also felt kind of at sea because I hadn't seen the pseudo-pilot ep of CM.

Will probably watch one more ep and then bail unless there's dramatic improvement. Especially since it's on against Justified anyway.