Silly through and through
I'll be honest; I didn't have a lot of interest in this from the description. Still, I thought I'd check it out.
Beals is good but her character is silly. In the first scene as she swaggers into the operating room she seems less like a surgeon than like a combat pilot from some '40s movie. I mean, she does it quite well, but it comes across as really unlikely.
The premise is, of course, super silly. Rich dying guy pays random person to research life after death. As opposed to, say, hiring a large research firm. Or, as someone else suggested, donating money to work on a cure for what's killing him.
The show is silly, but seems to take itself pretty seriously, especially in the whole grieving family drama parts.
Beals was good in her oddly-written role, and the intern she yells at was also quite good, but around the halfway point, before I could even figure exactly how they were going to approach the topic, I got so bored I just gave up.
There's no afterlife; I need to make the most of this one by only watching good TV.
Beals is good but her character is silly. In the first scene as she swaggers into the operating room she seems less like a surgeon than like a combat pilot from some '40s movie. I mean, she does it quite well, but it comes across as really unlikely.
The premise is, of course, super silly. Rich dying guy pays random person to research life after death. As opposed to, say, hiring a large research firm. Or, as someone else suggested, donating money to work on a cure for what's killing him.
The show is silly, but seems to take itself pretty seriously, especially in the whole grieving family drama parts.
Beals was good in her oddly-written role, and the intern she yells at was also quite good, but around the halfway point, before I could even figure exactly how they were going to approach the topic, I got so bored I just gave up.
There's no afterlife; I need to make the most of this one by only watching good TV.
- cherold
- Jun 23, 2015