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Happy Town

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 44,200 ✭✭✭✭Basq


    Watched the first 12 minutes recently.. and thought it was very average!

    Plus there's been too many silly comparisons to the superb 'Twin Peaks' and not-so-superb 'Harper's Island'.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 55,572 ✭✭✭✭Mr E


    After reading the snippets of reviews here, I'm not even going to bother with this one. Sounds awful (and sounds like it won't make it past its initial batch of episodes).
    USA Today wrote:
    … Surely every other Hollywood producer must marvel at how loyal ABC has been to Josh Appelbaum, André Nemec and Scott Rosenberg, the troika behind October Road — one of the worst written shows in recent painful memory (just the thought of those supposedly grown men forming a lip-sync "hairbrush band" is enough to give me nightmares) — and Life on Mars, which collapsed in inanity the minute the producers stopped copying the British original scene-for-scene. And yet despite those two ABC strikes, the network now plunges ahead with the equally miserable Happy Town, a serial murder mystery so awful, it makes you think ABC saw CBS' Harper's Island and felt some suicidal urge to do even worse....

    Ouch.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 21,634 ✭✭✭✭Richard Dower




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,503 ✭✭✭✭Also Starring LeVar Burton


    Was gonna give the show a shot since it had such a great cast, but after reading those reviews I'm not even gonna waste my time...
    I'll keep an eye on this thread over the next few days to see if there's a different reaction from the Boards community, but I doubt there will be...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,364 ✭✭✭paddyismaddy


    it shouldnt associate itself with twin peaks at all it will never be as good as that


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,503 ✭✭✭✭Also Starring LeVar Burton


    Did anyone watch it? Just out of interest...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 44,200 ✭✭✭✭Basq


    Did anyone watch it? Just out of interest...
    I acquired it for the sake of it... but not watched it yet.

    Will give it a watch over the weekend - but not expecting a whole lot!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 205 ✭✭trendy88


    I watched it! Have to say it was really good. A lot better than I was expecting. Having said that the big question is will it keep it up? Was a huge Harpers Island fan this time last year and that really failed to deliver in those all important final episodes. Also judging from last weeks ratings it doesnt appear that Happy Town will go beyond its original 8 episodes so is there any point continuing to watch? Although after ep 1 I have to say I am hooked!


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 21,634 ✭✭✭✭Richard Dower


    ^ the fact you mention Harpers Island send up a warning flare that reads "AVOID", HI was a terrible show last year.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 205 ✭✭trendy88


    the fact you mention Harpers Island send up a warning flare that reads "AVOID", HI was a terrible show last year.

    It started off well in fairness but went rapidly downhill. I fear the same fate could lie in store for Happy Town!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,145 ✭✭✭✭expectationlost


    boring, tired, hacknied, to much abc for me


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,267 ✭✭✭opr


    Haven't watched any of it and glad I didn't bother, its gone after only two episode!!

    http://livefeed.hollywoodreporter.com/2010/05/abc-pulls-happy-town-will-burn-off-in-summer-.html

    Opr


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 44,200 ✭✭✭✭Basq


    Watched the first one.. and it exceeded my expectations in terms of sheer "suckiness"!

    Good riddance!


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 21,634 ✭✭✭✭Richard Dower


    Heads up, the final two unaired episodes are "out and about", get your pidgeons ready.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 29 Black Eye Guy


    Saw the first 2 episodes of this, wasn't impressed by the pilot but it did get a little more intreating in the second episode.

    If anyone watchs all of this let me know if there is some kind of ending, I wouldn't be bothered to watch otherwise!


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