Flashboreward

There was a moment at the start of tonight's episode of Flashforward where the ever frowning Joseph Feinnes, freshy drummed out of the FBI for being about as unprofessional as it's possible to be, is handed the business card of a psychiatrist. I mentally added the Sopranos to the list of 24, Lost, Heroes, The X Files, The Wire, etc that this series has "borrowed" from. It's almost as if the writers were given a crib sheet and asked to incorporate elements of all the above shows in order to maximise viewing figures.

Tonight's double episode concentrated a lot more on the Mancunian Hobbit himself, Dominic Moneghan who introduced us to his family of typical British folk such as we're used to from Lost and Heroes. I'm sure some of the actors involved were British but dear God it was more cringeworthy than what's her name off Frasier. The episodes also managed to be completely and utterly predictable from start to finish. I genuinely never figured out that Bruce Willis was dead until it was revealed at the end of the Sixth Sense but the plot in Flashforward for all it's complexity is easier to read than the big print version of "Learn to read easy words with few letters".

I still don't really know why I persist with this travesty of a show, returning tonight after a 3 or 4 month break. Maybe I was kinda hoping that in the intervening period they might have managed to fix it. I think I watch though because they somehow manage to put some kind of moment of extreme excitment at the end of each episode dragging me back next week to find out which wholly inappropriate piece of music they're going to use randomly over which piece of cringeworthy action. Maybe I'm interested to find out how many more random British actors will appear in it (James Cosmo tonight in a very small cameo, getting about 5 lines before being strangled). Or maybe I just secretly like it but can't justify it in any way.

Who knows. All I know is I'll be watching again next week.