What Else Can Hollyweird Give The Axe?
Written by Ryan Anthony on June 20, 2010
Yes, it’s time again to play everyone’s favorite game show and pick from the – albeit promising – ratings bombs of summer. One series comes to mind; unfortunately, it’s one I’ve been watching since it premiered. I’m not pleased.
To think I was just beginning to get into Happy Town.
If some of you don’t know what I mean, or think I’m referring to a cheap carnival, I’ll run the show’s basic premise down: A John Wayne Gacy wanna-be known as the “Magic Man” terrorizes small Minnesota ‘burg. The town’s old sheriff, Griff Conroy (M.C. Gainey), ignores his mounting case load. Old guy Jerry Friddle (Boyd Banks) has an up-close-and-personal date with a railroad spike, which ignites a rush to find his killer.
Wings‘ Steven Weber (who I first confused for John Glover, the guy that portrayed the Devil in Christian cop show Brimstone) runs the town’s only bread factory. Lauren German plays an ass-kicking hottie – and the town’s newest resident – who literally strung up town criminal Greg Stiviletto in last week’s episode. That, of course, was immediately before she went to town on him with a cricket bat: paying him back for his misuse of the English language.
And in the middle of it all, the real “Magic Man” – since Friddle wasn’t it – is still out there. The new sheriff comes to grips with an ever higher stack of work as hell breaketh loose, and finds himself in the unenviable position of having to choose between his job and his friend – a pizza cook who goes by the nickname of Big Dave (ER’s Abraham Benrubi).
In a somewhat related side note: there’s just something about aggressive women that grabs me; it’s too bad that, more often than not, they turn out to be paper baggers stapling themselves to trees.
Thanks Hollywood, for canceling yet another TV show with some kind of promise to it. Go back to your regular diet of garbage, where the anti-conservative preaching isn’t limited to a European that’s supposed to act kind of douchey to keep role.
Now that I’ve gotten that off my chest, let me get back to my beatdown – STALIN! WHAT DID I TELL YOU ABOUT REFERRING TO YOURSELF IN THE THIRD PERSON?!
Crunch.
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