Quick Review: Demons on BBC America (no spoilers)
I watched the BBC America show Demons today and was underwhelmed, to put it politely.
It's a complete Buffy ripoff (youth learns that his destiny is to fight monsters), which isn't in of itself a bad thing. As they say, it's not the tale but the telling. The telling, however, just isn't very good in this case. Nothing sparked my interest and made want to watch more.
Philip Glenister, who was so good in the UK version of Life on Mars, is wasted here, playing the mentor character (who they had the unmitigated gall to name "Rupert") with an American accent. Why write him like that, fercryinoutloud? - I watch BBC America to avoid those harsh tones.
To give you an idea of just how uninteresting I found Demons, I didn't even care that reasonably good-looking leading man Christian Cooke spends a fair amount of time with his shirt off.
It's a complete Buffy ripoff (youth learns that his destiny is to fight monsters), which isn't in of itself a bad thing. As they say, it's not the tale but the telling. The telling, however, just isn't very good in this case. Nothing sparked my interest and made want to watch more.
Philip Glenister, who was so good in the UK version of Life on Mars, is wasted here, playing the mentor character (who they had the unmitigated gall to name "Rupert") with an American accent. Why write him like that, fercryinoutloud? - I watch BBC America to avoid those harsh tones.
To give you an idea of just how uninteresting I found Demons, I didn't even care that reasonably good-looking leading man Christian Cooke spends a fair amount of time with his shirt off.