quote:Seitz on the Amazon Drama Pilots Bosch and Chris Carters The After
The After The setup: In this new fantasy drama from The X-Files creator Chris Carter, a group of Los Angelenos are trapped in a luxury hotel after a mysterious cataclysm, then escape to discover that civilization has apparently collapsed and some uncanny evil is afoot in the land. Plus, they all seem to have lost a whole day and none of them can remember where it went. Coincidences abound, and none of them seem like coincidences. You could say Carter is taking a page from Lost if Lost weren't so heavily indebted to the specific brand of popcorn-exciting mystery-horror that Carter perfected on The X-Files. Carter's got a long track record of holding our interest whether his work is brilliant, okay, or terrible; no reason to think thisll be a departure. The cast: Louise Monot, Sharon Lawrence, Andrew Howard, Adrian Pasdar, Jaina Lee Ortiz How is it? Moderately engaging for the first 20 minutes, as it introduces its disaster-movie-style band of racially, ethnically, and financially diverse characters; increasingly suspenseful for the next 40, as the world devolves into Hobbesian chaos; and for the last 10 minutes, scary as a mofo.
Hopefully Amazon greenlights this into a series, or a network picks it up.
Sounds interesting. I loved the X-Files until the last two (or is three) seasons. The show wasn't the same when Dokovny (sp?) left and Anderson was put in the back burner.
It was pretty corny, yes, but I really liked it. The setup was pretty good (world gone crazy for unknown reasons, the birthdays) and the ending was a surprise. I didn't see it coming at all.