28-11-2015, 16:23
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#1159
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Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: Cambridge
Posts: 16,760
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Re: Science Fiction, Fantasy, and other Snippets
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Originally Posted by Kymmy
South of hell was shown back to back in the USA last night.... Looks like I have the ideal TV session for my birthday tomorrow.
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It's meant to be awful
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/rev...-review-843757
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It takes neither a TV critic nor a fortune teller to read the tea leaves on WEtv's South of Hell. If you're a network with minimal experience in the scripted space and you give a splashy straight-to-series order for a supernatural horror drama from a prolific genre producer (Jason Blum), an established genre director (Eli Roth) with a recognizable star (Mena Suvari), deciding to release all of the series at once — trimmed to only seven episodes — on the day after Thanksgiving counts as a vote of minimal confidence.
Based on two episodes, it's easy to see why WEtv had no particular clue what to do with South of Hell. Whatever WEtv's brand is, this isn't it, nor is it likely to open the network up to a future niche. It isn't scary. It looks comically cheap at times. The performances range from inconsistent to fairly awful. And unless the Emmys open up a category for Outstanding Use of Multi-Colored Contact Lenses, it's unlikely to get any real respect.
But as a representative of a subgenre already prone to overflowing hokum draped in Spanish moss, smothered in grits and delivered with Southern accents learned from a Hooked on Keanu Reeves tape series, South of Hell at least gets credit for some so-bad-it's-funny silliness to go with a premise which really could have been shaped into something better...
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