TV: Reaper

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Apr. 27th, 2008 | 12:05 pm

Being, the tale of a young man whose parents sold his soul to the devil before he was born, and his subsequent adventures hunting down souls who've escaped from hell while attempting to live a (relatively) normal life

I ain't hooked. Mildly amusing in general, but the lead character is just too much of a slacker for me to care, the "comedy sidekick" is the kind of self-conciously-wacky jerk I spend half my real life attempting to avoid, and the most interesting character in the whole shebang (Ray Wise as the Devil) is only on screen for a few minutes per episode at best.

That said, it's not bad. The dialogue has its moments, and the cast is generally watchable.

I'd watch it if I didn't have anything better to do, but my life's kinda busy right now and I don't care enough to make time for it. So: apathy attack.

Reaper at IMDB
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KingAndy

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from: [info]kingandy
date: Apr. 28th, 2008 08:27 pm (UTC)
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What does it do that 'Dead Like Me' didn't do and get cancelled doing?

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flashheart

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from: [info]flashheart
date: May. 1st, 2008 03:50 am (UTC)
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Dead Like Me did it first and did it better IMO, that said Reaper is more specifically a slacker comedy (guess they wanted to make the most of Kevin Smith's involvement - also see the Dogma supernatural conflict). We're at, what, episode 15-odd and all of the quirks are wearing thin enough to be disappointing/annoying (though bringing in whatserface from the UK office came out of nowhere).

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Gav

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from: [info]blufive
date: May. 1st, 2008 06:12 pm (UTC)
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I'll defer to [info]flashheart's greater expertise here - I don't think I saw enough of DLM to comment on it at all.

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