I am very happy that Charlie's Angels is canceled. The reboot of the famed series was doomed from the started, but ABC believed it could work. (ha!)
I saw and read the pilot of the show, and honey, I was like "put this bag out on the curb". This show really wasn't strong enough to be on a major network, in fact, it should have been on CW.
Anywho, Charlie's Angels was destined to fall away. And, I think this show failed because of these 10 reasons:
- Rebooted TV shows don't work. There have been several rebooted TV shows and most of them have failed. What was cute in the 70s don't do well in the 00s.
- The idea was flawed. We had Alias, She Spies and V.I.P. These shows already played the female super spy gig to the last note. CA didn't offer anything new to the genre.
- The girls. The super pretty girls gag is old. If the Angels were made up of Michelle Rodriguez, Grace Pack and Zoe Bell, I think the show could go places. These women are beautiful, deadly, and they look the part! A pretty face can't sell everything!
- The writing was HORRID!
- The show took itself too seriously.
- The actresses... Well, they were okay. But they were not strong enough to carry the show.
- The stories were nothing to shout about. It's been done and seen before.
- The new concept of the Angels' existence was flat out silly.
- There was no direction of where the main story was going. More attention seemed to be on their wardrobe than the plot.
- The show was put on Thursday nights. Not a wise move from ABC.
3 comments:
How many episodes were shown? That was unbelievably fast!
The original wasn't exactly Masterpiece Theater, but it was the 70s, we didn't demand as much. I think reboots aren't necessarily bad, only if they're badly done as apparently was the case here. Hawaii 5-O was doing well last I checked, but it's more the exception to the rule, admittedly. The thing is, the networks claim that the over 35 demographic doesn't matter to advertisers, yet they always trot out 40 yr old shows, same name, same basic idea. Why would anyone under 30 even care about Charlie's Angels. They would have been better off, taking the basic premise, and work off that but call it something else and break the format more. Anyway, network tv isn't rocket science. Just a lot of scared overpaid execs falling back on old ideas to save their jobs long enough for them to fail upward. Great gig, if you can get it though!
I think it was 4. I kinda liked the show.
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