Maggers Wrote:I'm surprised no one has written about this yet. "Night Stalker" premiered the other night. Did anyone catch it? I enjoyed it, though I missed a bit about 3/4 of the way through, so I can't say for sure if it really held water. I did like what I saw, though the female lead is weak.
Darren McGavin had a cameo...he was just hanging around the newsroom in the vicinity of the 2 leads. He had no lines, he just was there wearing his standard old "Kolchak" costume and holding that ratty hat. Cute.
BTW, Stuart Townsend would make a good "Reborn" era Rasalom.
I watched this, but was giving it some time to process before reviewing it.
All in all it shows promise and the Darren McGavin thing was cool.
Minor spoilers.....................................
One thing I must say I didn't like was that it looks like its going to have the big conspiracy, everything is connected plot lines like the Xfiles later episodes had. The thing I liked so much about the original was A: The episodes were stand alone and would be wrapped up at the end of every episode with a dialogue on what was found. B: Some of the better monster's on TV then or now.
This first episode gave zero explanation on what the monsters were, and had the FBI agent who was trying to cover everything up so he could get Kolchak for the murder of his wife.
When I first saw he had been a suspect in a murder I was kind of excited thinking they had carried that over from the original first made for TV movie where Kolchak kills the Vampire and the authorities threaten him with a murder charge if he doesn't keep it quite and move along...but they went a different route which I am still open to if they don't over do the conspiracy thing.
I have high hopes and my fingers crossed for this show as I was a big fan of the original.
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