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I just finished watching the second season on DVD. Knowing that the show was cancelled prematurely, I was pretty pleased with the resolution that we did get in the finale. I'd love to see more, but what we got was enough to be a pretty complete story.
The show as a whole was good, but flawed. The first episodes were really moody and evocative, but after a while, the mood was the same and the plot moved forward at a really glacial pace. Particularly in early season two things were going awry. Ben's plot felt like a videogame, he'd find a clue, fight some people on the way to get it, then get another clue sending him elsewhere. And so much time was spent on the exact same story with the cooch dancers.
But, halfway through that season, once Ben met up with Scutter, everything started to pick up and the show got a real sense of direction. I love moody stuff, but when the mood's the same every episode, there's got to be some forward progress to keep things interesting. The convergence of the two plots in the final few episodes was great, and I really started to care about the b-list characters, like Jonesy and Libby. I thought the final confrontation was suitably epic, paying off all the themes that the series had been developing.
So, anyone heard about a movie or something else to wrap the story up? |
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