Posted on 04/06/2015 1:23:03 PM PDT by pabianice
OK. In a season during which NBC has put-on its big boy pants -- or the one dirty word a minute standard -- in order to compete with cable, we have several new shows. Among them is the new "American Odyssey," which premiered last night.
The bad news is that the show offers nothing new. Big business is pure evil, secretly funding Islamic terrorism and sending its own private army to kill American soldiers who may embarrass BIG EVIL BUSINESS, which operates like the Klingon Empire except that the Klingons are more honorable and gentle. In "Odyssey," corporations also kill anyone who may know of their evil, the families of whistle-blowers, and people who are related even by marriage to whistle-blowers. Children are threatened with kidnapping or worse. Evil big business makes inconvenient people simply erased from history ("I'm sorry. No one by that name has ever worked here.") CEOs are hiding a vast number of secrets, including having affairs, paying terrorists to kill US soldiers, and generally being sub-human. Senior military officers order and then hide the deaths of their own people.
By way of contrast, reporters, news people, and public lawyers are the height of honor, sacrifice, bravery, and general do-goodedness. Sound familiar? Yes, this series is every high-handed, stupid morality play ever bleated by Hollywood. The dialog is laughable and the plot devices could have been written by Ed Wood.
What little drama there is upheld by the female lead in the show (Anna Friel?), who does a good job looking desperate and pissed-off at the same time. Peter Facinelli is also watchable. Most of the rest of the cast is strictly 2-dimensional.
I had hoped for more.
I saw the commercials every 5 minutes during A.D. and figured that NBC would put a spin on it so the muzzies weren’t the real bad guys.
So it’s another documentary like “Madam Secretary” then?
Thank you for the review, it confirms what I was able to glean from the trailers.
NBC: No Bloody Chance.
Doesn't sound like much of anything here is watchable. Obviously, it isn't just NBC, although NBC is as bad as any and worse than most. I used to like Law and Order. The last of that series I ever watched was the segment in which they thought Ken Starr needed to be trashed. NBC works pretty hard ar driving away the audience.
I saw exactly the same things you saw and thought the writers must have spent some time in the Occupy Wall Street camps in order to “create” this mutt of a show.
I thought last year started a bit slow, but it got consistently better. Can’t wait for the season premiere.
Caught a few minutes, enough time to get a similar vibe as you’ve described. Not buying what they’re selling.
What’s an “NBC”?
I'll take a run at this one. I'm pulling for it.
They’ve done a good job of holding close to history. Obviously there is added drama but its fine. They didn’t skimp on acting either.
http://www.amctv.com/shows/turn/cast
I made the mistake of watching the entire episode, and I won’t do that again. When I saw them making heroes out of the “Occupy” crowd, I knew the mini-series was in serious trouble. Nothing more than a classic hit piece on big business and the military; I fully expect a Dick Cheney-like character to appear in the next couple of weeks.
Its gone soon. It didn’t do well enough to get renewed even for horrible NBC. The Bible show last night was a ratings disappointment too. It had higher ratings on the History channel.....lol.
What’s an “NBC”?
A network that has the incredible Chicago Fire, Chicago PD and Law and Order SVU....those are the only 3 shows I watch on NBC but all three are incredibly good.
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