Review: Hawaii 101 – 103, Father of the Pride 101 – 102
NBC beats the networks this year, premiering 2 new shows as early as possible.
The first is Hawaii, a pretty standard cop show, with some pretty good actors (Michael Biehn, ER’s Sharif Atkins). Too bad they don’t have any challenges to face. The stories are pretty straightforward, including a fixed story outline for every episode, like any other cop show. The characters are pretty non-descript. Nothing special after 3 episodes, meaning no depth, no exploration, and thus, holding no future. Not for me at least. Definitely a bye to this series.
Second up is Dreamworks Animated Studios big assignment. Taking Siegfried and Roy’s concept to the 3D animated fantasy world, we see how the animals live behind the show (walking and talking like humans, living in houses and such), while taking a few potshots at themselves. Refreshing in some ways, but not laugh out loud funny (like Dreamworks’ Shrek, for instance). There seems to be a tight story line for every episodes, but somehow, it doesn’t feel special enough.