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slowfoxThere are cliffhangers.
There are really mean cliffhangers.
And then there's the final episode of the one and only season of My Own Worst Enemy. This was cliff supreme. Seriously, I swore at the monitor.
Why was this show cancelled? *wails*
The premise is a sort up updating of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, with Christian Slater (who's lookin' good throughout) playing a sleeper agent for JANUS, some part of US intelligence. By day he's Henry, a mild mannered, do-good executive, with two kids, (very pretty) wife, dog and typical suburban life. On missions he's Edward, walking angel of death. He gets flipped between the two by Tony, who operates a switch that's literally been implanted in ... their collective brain.
Coming back from a mission, Tony pastes in false memories into Henry's mind, and when he 'wakes up', he has no idea that Edward even exists.
Until the switch breaks and Henry starts waking up on mission, and Edward returns in family situations. Some of the coolest exchanges are when Edward and Henry have conversations with one another by recording themselves when they feel the mind-switch coming on...
It's really smart: it's got spying, action, gadgets. It's funny, surprising, and is full of twists. And it seems well shot 'n stuff. Some of the product placements are a bit in your face, but I can live with that.
However, it got cancelled in its first season, and it seems clear to me that the writers obviously got together and said 'Right: you're going to cancel us? Then watch this...'
It's only 9 eps long, but is definitely a lot of fun. Anyone else out there seen it?
There are really mean cliffhangers.
And then there's the final episode of the one and only season of My Own Worst Enemy. This was cliff supreme. Seriously, I swore at the monitor.
Why was this show cancelled? *wails*
The premise is a sort up updating of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, with Christian Slater (who's lookin' good throughout) playing a sleeper agent for JANUS, some part of US intelligence. By day he's Henry, a mild mannered, do-good executive, with two kids, (very pretty) wife, dog and typical suburban life. On missions he's Edward, walking angel of death. He gets flipped between the two by Tony, who operates a switch that's literally been implanted in ... their collective brain.
Coming back from a mission, Tony pastes in false memories into Henry's mind, and when he 'wakes up', he has no idea that Edward even exists.
Until the switch breaks and Henry starts waking up on mission, and Edward returns in family situations. Some of the coolest exchanges are when Edward and Henry have conversations with one another by recording themselves when they feel the mind-switch coming on...
It's really smart: it's got spying, action, gadgets. It's funny, surprising, and is full of twists. And it seems well shot 'n stuff. Some of the product placements are a bit in your face, but I can live with that.
However, it got cancelled in its first season, and it seems clear to me that the writers obviously got together and said 'Right: you're going to cancel us? Then watch this...'
It's only 9 eps long, but is definitely a lot of fun. Anyone else out there seen it?
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Date: 2009-09-14 08:15 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-09-14 08:28 am (UTC)Does NBC Video Rewind work for you?
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Date: 2009-09-14 08:40 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-09-14 09:46 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-09-14 09:49 am (UTC)Oh yes, indeedy. Christian Slater is goooooooooood :-)
I always thought it a shame his cameo in The West Wing was so short-lived.
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Date: 2009-09-14 12:20 pm (UTC)I so hate it when they cancel series with a cliffhanger...
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Date: 2009-09-14 12:30 pm (UTC)I think the show was rewritten when they were told they were being cancelled, and I do wonder if the writers deliberately set this one up in revenge...
It's good, and I thought Slater was excellent as the central character.