Okay, half-way home trying to make up for my flu-caused absence.
I railed against the British science fiction series Primeval's debut show for the second series. It was a mess of logical inconsistencies and sloppy editing. It took the strong promise of the last scene of last season's series one and punted it, badly.
Soooo, how did the second show do? Not much better, I fear. We still have team members sauntering up the stairs to do battle with prehistoric problems without benefit of any equipment. Lucy Brown's character, Jenny (aka Claudia in the OTHER reality), almost plays the lunacy up, by joining the battle with the fog worms, deeming it unnecessary to walk up the safe stair wells when she could take the dangerous elevators in her high heels. Her later precise use of a samurai sword was ...
Okay, there were some funny moments. They actors SEEM to know they are acting foolishly in a supposedly smart series.
The Professor's wife makes a reappearance. She had to be a different one than last year, since she not only somehow ends up in Stephen Hart's bed, but sticks around for an anonymous peeping Tina moment at the end. If she was last year's model, she would be back in that other reality, the one where Jenny is an unmarried Claudia, and very much in love with her husband, the Professor. Don't think the divorce is final in either place.
All in all, this is one more stinker of a show away from not being worth the 49 minutes to watch it.
I want it to be better. That might not be enough.
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