I know all of you critics ...
Question: I know all of you critics absolutely hate
October Road, but honestly, I don't know why. I just got around to watching last week's episode, and I have no idea why it is so widely hated by critics. Could you explain?
Answer: I can't speak for other critics, but I will quote from one of my best buddies in the business:
USA Today's Robert Bianco, who, when recently asked this very same question, replied: "For my money,
October Road is one of the worst-written, worst-acted shows on network TV — a silly, patently phony rip-off of a hundred other can't-go-home-again shows, movies and books." I can't improve on that, and I don't want to be accused of plagiarism if I try. I will say, though, that the show's phoniness is what really made it painful for me to watch. I don't believe a single word, I don't care about a single character, and the cloying nature of everything from the cinematography and music to the dialogue cause me actual physical agony as I try to sit through episodes. Now that it is flopping without
Grey's Anatomy as a lead-in, I imagine it won't be long before I can tuck this away as just another bad TV memory.
