I hate to admit it, but curiosity got me to tune in and I hung with it for about 45 minutes and finally had to turn my head (and the channel). God, that show was awful. The basic theme is so far fetched it hurt my head to watch.
The only reason I did tune in was because I happen to live in said town. I did get a kick out of the "Point Pleasant New Jersey State Beach" sign and the giant ferris wheel. The kids driving their 4x4's on the beach for the bonfire was good for a hoot too. Another oddity for me was that my daughter just happens to live in Ocean Grove, the town where Satan's daughter thinks her mom may be living at.
One thing I've caught myself doing since watching, is looking deeply into the eyes of anyone I meet and checking out their iris' very carefully.
I have no idea if the show will survive, but it will have to do so without me watching.
But if one wanted a gothic backdrop for tales of the devil ...
Well, Ocean Grove would be that place. Still have hotels that look like a day from the 1860's there. Only started allowing cars in on Sundays twenty years ago. I remember they still had the rows and rows of summer house tents then too. Before that -- you could not even park your car in the street or in any public view even in a driveway on Sunday.
I also rememebr a cold winter of ice and fire there in Ocean Grove and directly neighboring Asbury Park -- a number of ancient huge ornate Victorian ginger bread-style houses went up in flames in the coldest days of a cold winter -- the fire-fighter's water sprays created intricate icicle palaces for a few weeks.
Raw fleeting moments of grand intricate beauty.