I really wanted Fox’s Reunion to be my favorite new show. Looking back, its hard to imagine how I could have been excited about something so crappy, but at the time (mid-summer), when Fox started running promos, it seemed like it was destined to be my new fav. After all, it had teen\/college drama, an unraveling mystery and a unique gimmick (each episode is a different year) — it couldn’t miss, right? <\/p>\n
Wrong. Reunion is terrible. And not even terrible in a One Tree Hill this-show-is-so-absurd-but-I-love-it-anyway type of way, just plain terrible. The story sucks (is Sam really that<\/em> great?), the acting is bad, and the writing is even worse. (Actually, in these types of situations, I think acting ends up taking the blame for issues that are really caused by writing. Take Mathew St. Patrick, for example: a consistently solid performance in Six Feet Under, yet consistently cheesy and bloated in Reunion. Just awful dialog.)<\/p>\n The other thing that kills me about Reunion is that they explain the premise of the show before every episode. It’s kind of like a bad joke — if you have to explain it, perhaps it just isn’t that good in the first place. Just like the idea behind this show.<\/p>\n Shamefully, I set up a TiVo season pass before the season even started, and since there really isn’t anything else on Thursday at 9, I’ll probably keep watching this trash (until Fox inevitably cancels it and puts me out of my misery). And to make it even worse, perhaps the greatest single timeslot standoff of my lifetime occurs just one hour before, with The O.C., Alias and Smallville all competing for my eyes and TiVo space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I really wanted Fox’s Reunion to be my favorite new show. Looking back, its hard to imagine how I could have been excited about something so crappy, but at the time (mid-summer), when Fox started running promos, it seemed like it was destined to be my new fav. After all, it had teen\/college drama, an […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.mikemadaio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.mikemadaio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.mikemadaio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.mikemadaio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.mikemadaio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=260"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/archive.mikemadaio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":547,"href":"http:\/\/archive.mikemadaio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260\/revisions\/547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.mikemadaio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.mikemadaio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.mikemadaio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}