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| Cartoon by Christopher McElfresh |
It seems to be par for the course these
days. We get a heavily-promoted TV premiere and it just turns out to
be derivative, boring or just bad. This is really bad from my
perspective since I prefer well-written drama (or comedy/drama) and despise reality television and seeing how the latter is the only thing on anymore, I've more or less given up on TV. Still,
I do check out many of the pilots as they air to see if there is
anything else worth watching this coming season. So far, for 2012,
the answer is a resounding “no”.
TV Pilot Hell is my journey through
these dreadful pilots and an explanation of why they, and television
as a whole, generally blows. So, I will open with a pilot that is
still very new, and if you actually watched it, fairly fresh on your
mind. TNT has become the home for drama (I guess...) and the
occasional decent show, like Leverage, is cut between a stupid new
reality show and a number of bad cookie-cutter cop shows. One such
run-of-the-mill fail fest is Perception, a new show for 2012 that
promises to be TNT's latest “quirky cop show”. Yeah, and I'm not
a judgmental prick with too much time on my hands!
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