It's like TV networks have traveled back in time this season. On the air right now, we've got Knight Rider, 90210... and, of course, The Simpsons (which hasn't really been good for a few seasons.)
Speaking of Knight Rider... I had no intention of ever watching a single minute of this show, but tonight I had the TV on following the brief presidential address. I was doing house stuff like unloading the dishwasher before heading out the door to meet some friends. Just as I'm about to go, my mind actually registers what's on the TV screen:
The car is flying down the highway on fire. Inside, the hero and some heroine have stripped down to their underwear in an effort to make the high temperatures more bearable. This all hardly 10 minutes into the episode.
This is all they've got. Who needs a plot when you can show your stars nearly naked for no reason?
2 comments:
At least they waited a few episodes on Enterprise before they showed T'Pol in the decontamination chamber.
My two favorite reviews of Knight Rider so far...that are hard to disagree with:
USA Today gives it one star (out of four) and says: "There is much to despise in Knight Rider, a shockingly incompetent, barely coherent, ad-driven rip-off … Instead of just aiming the show at children, maybe NBC should let them write and perform it. They could hardly do worse."
The San Francisco Chronicle says: "… heinously bad. It's the kind of bad that sells cheese or gets entertainment presidents fired - one or the other, or both. Of course, anyone who would watch "Knight Rider" anyway - given the show's history of low expectations and the NBC movie that reinvented it - probably knows what they're getting into and won't mind that it's spectacularly awful. For some people, taste is not a choice in life. … probably the dumbest show of the season …"
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