TV Review: No Ordinary Family, Episodes 2-4
They had me worried for a minute there.
Back in my review of episode one (click the "TV review" tag for that) I mentioned this show was fabulous except for the cheese. Not only did episode two not improve upon the cheese, episode three got worse, heaping cheese upon my screen until I could barely see the content of the episode.
Episode four, thankfully, is back in the direction we need to go. Our main characters communicate but don't solve all their problems, and have real flaws without being bastards like most superheroes today. Threats and tension are building for them, both personally and on the superpowered end of things. Unfortunately, episodes two and three lost a significant number of viewers, and I worry that we won't get a whole season to finish the great story that's building up. I hope we do, because if episode four is any indication, the story is finally on its feet and running.
I'm particularly hopeful for Romany Malco's character; he's the Best Friend. He has branded himself our hero, Jim's, sidekick, and is rather an extended member of Jim's family, but he got that way because his cynical nature and lack of trust drove everyone else away so he has no family of his own. Yet to like a sweetie like Jim and to be so gung-ho about beating bad guys, there's obviously something in him that wants to hope. I think he's the most interesting of the characters so far, and I'd love to see him get his own storyline, instead of just backing Jim up the way he is now.
Anyway: great potential, and a story that's beginning to live up to that potential. I'm really praying for this one to succeed instead of go the way of Heroes and go down the path of Too Serious and Convoluted.
Back in my review of episode one (click the "TV review" tag for that) I mentioned this show was fabulous except for the cheese. Not only did episode two not improve upon the cheese, episode three got worse, heaping cheese upon my screen until I could barely see the content of the episode.
Episode four, thankfully, is back in the direction we need to go. Our main characters communicate but don't solve all their problems, and have real flaws without being bastards like most superheroes today. Threats and tension are building for them, both personally and on the superpowered end of things. Unfortunately, episodes two and three lost a significant number of viewers, and I worry that we won't get a whole season to finish the great story that's building up. I hope we do, because if episode four is any indication, the story is finally on its feet and running.
I'm particularly hopeful for Romany Malco's character; he's the Best Friend. He has branded himself our hero, Jim's, sidekick, and is rather an extended member of Jim's family, but he got that way because his cynical nature and lack of trust drove everyone else away so he has no family of his own. Yet to like a sweetie like Jim and to be so gung-ho about beating bad guys, there's obviously something in him that wants to hope. I think he's the most interesting of the characters so far, and I'd love to see him get his own storyline, instead of just backing Jim up the way he is now.
Anyway: great potential, and a story that's beginning to live up to that potential. I'm really praying for this one to succeed instead of go the way of Heroes and go down the path of Too Serious and Convoluted.