A&E's "Damien" (Season 1)

[MattJ1991]

Great idea to premiere this after Bates Motel. I'll give it a shot.

[JaseT]

Excited for the series premiere tomorrow after Bates! The thread title should be changed from Lifetime to A&E.

[djgeneral]

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Average Rating: 2.4/10
Reviews Counted: 10
Fresh: 1
Rotten: 9

YIKES

[MrTwoArms]

Well, that was terrible. At least I still have Bates to look forward to.

[djgeneral]

Did anyone watch?

[dubious]

Originally Posted by djgeneral

Did anyone watch?

No.

I never liked the movies anyways, and reboots and spin-offs are just generally unappealing. Is Hollywood out of original ideas?

[steve1971]

I watched it and thought it was fairly good for an opening. You cant judge it by the first episode all the time. I'll give it a chance due to the fact the I liked the Omen's 1-3.

[oddbox83]

First episode is currently free on iTunes (US) - downloading it now.

I wish more shows would do this!

[JaseT]

Originally Posted by djgeneral

Did anyone watch?

I did. It wasn't fantastic by any means, but I will give episode 2 a chance.

[JaseT]

Originally Posted by dubious

No.

I never liked the movies anyways, and reboots and spin-offs are just generally unappealing. Is Hollywood out of original ideas?

Why would you even be in this thread then? Just stopping by to drop a deuce?

[dubious]

Originally Posted by JaseT

Why would you even be in this thread then? Just stopping by to drop a deuce?

Yeah. I'm 2 of the 12 replies to date. Looks like the thread needed all the help it can get.

[Luke B.]

Finally watched it and it is good, I hope it becomes better and better just as Bates Motel.

[djgeneral]

Merged the 2 threads and fixed the title

[cynatnite]

I enjoyed it a lot.

[Show spoiler]Loved the flashbacks to the original Omen movie.

It's an intriguing start and I can't wait to see where they go with this.

[SlayersCouncil]

I've been sick this week so I was fortunate enough to watch the original movie right before watching this. They do a great job connecting it to the first movie (ignoring all sequels). The only thing off from the continuity is that The Omen (1976) has Damien's birthday as June 6, 1970 whereas this show has the story start on his 30th birthday. Unless this show takes place in the year 2000, they are taking liberties with the dates. Judging by the technology shown, I doubt it is supposed to be 2000. I can understand why they played with the timeline though; the TV Damien needs to be 30 to

[Show spoiler]coincide with the comparisons to Jesus for his role of the Antichrist.

Overall, I liked it and look forward to episode 2. I also like how they play homage to the original score.

Right now his character seems like a good guy just trying to live his life. It will be interesting to see how/if he tries to fight the evil inside him and if/when he embraces who he was born to be. This show has a lot of potential as long as the writers and this actor can pull it off.

BTW: I'm still pissed that The Returned was cancelled. I really enjoyed it and wanted to see what would happen next. I guess I can check out the French version that came before it.

[Jay Ellis]

It was a pretty good start. I just hope they don't try to do some kind of redemption story. Damien's destiny is fixed. He is destined to become the despotic antichrist, the son of perdition just like Norman Bates is destined to become the iconic serial killer from Psycho. This series should just be a chronicle of how that transformation takes place i.e. how the humanity he initially has is swallowed up by the evil inside him.

[duggie walker]

Thought this was absolutely dreadful. I kind-of hate shows like this and Lucifer that are trying to recast Satan (!) as a guy we should be cheering for but there might have been some mileage in Damien very slowly figuring out who and what he is. Instead, they compressed it all into one episode and threw in a couple of lame deaths to boot. Damien looks like a GQ model and so quick to believe all the gobbledygook being thrown his way that he comes off like an imbecile.

I'll give Ep 2 a watch but I can't really see how they're going to redeem this one for me. Pity because BATES MOTEL has been surprisingly good.

[cynatnite]

Originally Posted by SlayersCouncil

I've been sick this week so I was fortunate enough to watch the original movie right before watching this. They do a great job connecting it to the first movie (ignoring all sequels). The only thing off from the continuity is that The Omen (1976) has Damien's birthday as June 6, 1970 whereas this show has the story start on his 30th birthday. Unless this show takes place in the year 2000, they are taking liberties with the dates. Judging by the technology shown, I doubt it is supposed to be 2000. I can understand why they played with the timeline though; the TV Damien needs to be 30 to

[Show spoiler]coincide with the comparisons to Jesus for his role of the Antichrist.

Overall, I liked it and look forward to episode 2. I also like how they play homage to the original score.

Right now his character seems like a good guy just trying to live his life. It will be interesting to see how/if he tries to fight the evil inside him and if/when he embraces who he was born to be. This show has a lot of potential as long as the writers and this actor can pull it off.

BTW: I'm still pissed that The Returned was cancelled. I really enjoyed it and wanted to see what would happen next. I guess I can check out the French version that came before it.

This was obvious from the beginning. It didn't bother me even a little bit.

[Dunemoon]

Liked it and hope it doesn't get cancelled.

[TheProf89]

It's pretty horrid but I will check it out and see if it gets better.
The funniest part is when they flash back and it is very obvious that the timeline is thrown completely off. It is riff-able