Voices
JEFF
SORENSEN
HUFFINGTON
10.14.12
Must-Flee
Fall TV
EACH YEAR, the networks vie for
the viewers with a bevy of new series. Most of these fail, but a couple succeed and stay on television
for at least a few years. I decided
to torture myself and give many of
the new pilots this year a shot,
so you don’t have to.
NBC’S REVOLUTION
The previews for this series intrigued me from the start. It portrays the world 15 years after all
power has shut off. And the pilot
has the director of Iron Man, Jon
Favreau, so I was getting pretty
geeked for the show to premiere.
Sadly, ten minutes into it I realized it was absolutely terrible.
The power just inexplicably shuts
off and it fast-forwards 15 years
to a future where everyone looks
exactly the same, and the kids
ILLUSTRATION BY JESSE LEFKOWITZ
have grown-up into super models with perfect makeup, hair and
clothing. Guns are apparently
scarce because everyone uses
machetes or bows and arrows.
There’s a point where one
guy kills 30 odd people with a
machete. How did he do this?
He was in the Marines. I guess
I missed the fencing classes in
boot camp. There is also a moment where a man running gets
hit in the chest with an arrow.
Jeff Sorensen
is the author
of Zombies
Ruined My
Weekend