After months of speculation and a great deal of NBC-sponsored, self-serving hype and hyperbole about how Earth-shakingly great it was going to be, the utterly pointless re-tread of Knight Rider debuted last night.
And it sucked.
It's hard to find the words that truly express just how eye-gougingly, brain crushingly awful it quite unequivocally was, but in his column in USA Today Robert Bianco does an excellent job when he describes it as 'a shockingly incompetent, barely coherent, ad-driven rip-off.'
I want to have this man's children. Finally, someone in the field of media review calls out the media for inexcusably poor execution.
A great many people make a very good living and receive [and eagerly court] a wealth of esteem and attention by heaping breathless praise on witless mediocrity. Mr. Bianco is clearly the exception. He evidently finds no fear in calling a spade a spade, and a forthright opinion of such untainted veracity is a joyous relief in this insincere, egocentric profession.
The byline of this blog is, 'The Emperor is Naked - Film at Eleven!' And this is why. NBC can do better, which we as the audience deserve. And there is an inescapable and ongoing need for a clear and collective voice that can endure all the hype and remind the two parties of this, and it's both a pleasure and an unplanned delight to welcome such a forthright and eloquent scribe to this sadly neglected but vital fraternity.
And it sucked.
It's hard to find the words that truly express just how eye-gougingly, brain crushingly awful it quite unequivocally was, but in his column in USA Today Robert Bianco does an excellent job when he describes it as 'a shockingly incompetent, barely coherent, ad-driven rip-off.'
I want to have this man's children. Finally, someone in the field of media review calls out the media for inexcusably poor execution.
A great many people make a very good living and receive [and eagerly court] a wealth of esteem and attention by heaping breathless praise on witless mediocrity. Mr. Bianco is clearly the exception. He evidently finds no fear in calling a spade a spade, and a forthright opinion of such untainted veracity is a joyous relief in this insincere, egocentric profession.
The byline of this blog is, 'The Emperor is Naked - Film at Eleven!' And this is why. NBC can do better, which we as the audience deserve. And there is an inescapable and ongoing need for a clear and collective voice that can endure all the hype and remind the two parties of this, and it's both a pleasure and an unplanned delight to welcome such a forthright and eloquent scribe to this sadly neglected but vital fraternity.
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