Title: Moonlight

Network: CBS

I am trying really hard to like this. I have watched the first 4 episodes with gut-busting hope. The potential for a modern day vampire story is tremendous. Unfortunately, the studio conveyor-belt system is just screwing it all up. It’s like they forgot how to work with anything that actually involves a script.

“I have to lay low, stay out of sight, people are hunting me down because I am a vampire… I know, I’ll get involved with a web reporter, help the cops solve crimes, and hire myself out as a Private Eye. There’s nothing more unobtrusive than video cameras, the internet, a nosey DA, and inviting people I have never met into my lair, erm… home, I mean home.”

The whole Private Eye thing has become such a cliche. Would have been cooler if they kept it the setting in the 40’s and turned the whole thing more noir. At least then it would be justified. As it is, it’s just another excuse for weaksauce episodic tv with horrid writing. Then again, the whole noir-esque thing didn’t save Dresden Files, so what the heck do I know.

I’ll probably give it one more episode before I start making more room in the DVR HD. Who knows, maybe it’s just taking a while to get to the good stuff.