I was just reading your ...
Question: I was just reading your opinion of
Wanted because I was curious to see what you thought. You see, I am a
Dead Zone fan — it's on my "can't miss" list, and I think
Anthony Michael Hall gives a great performance as John Smith. Since it is on at the same time as
Wanted, I haven't been able to see an episode, despite TNT's reairings. While I realize the season finale of
The Dead Zone just aired this past week, I was wondering: Since I never see anything in your column about this show, which would you rather watch Sundays at 10:
The Dead Zone or
Wanted?
Answer: Sadly, neither. The reason you don't see much about
Dead Zone in the column should be pretty obvious. It just doesn't work for me on a weekly basis, though it's doing just fine for USA, so it doesn't really matter what I think. The cast, with the possible exception of Hall, is so bland, and they've dragged out the Stillson/apocalypse story line so slowly that I've simply lost interest. But to be generous, it seems to me that while
Medium has received a lot of credit for sparking a revival of interest in prime-time psychics,
Dead Zone got there first and has been doing it successfully for quite a while.
