Review: Reunion 101
Fox already has another break-out hit with another highly serialised series (Prison Break) even before their first high-risk project has finished (24). And usually, these shows make the most interesting series, with complicated storylines unfolding while there’s enough time for character development (as in, Lost, Alias, Battlestar Galactica, The 4400), so I had to try this one.
The concept of this season’s 20 episode it to highlight one year every episode. How serialised can you get ? Some kind of mystery happens (probably murder of a cast member), and it will unfold and finish also (with possible next seasons featuring a whole new cast and storyline). This one starts out during the summer of ’86, and follows 6 close friends, just graduated from high school. And leave it to bad writing to have no less than 2 love triangles, and from here on cliches play tag every minute or so (with slight deja-vu feelings of Fox’s last bomb, Point Pleasant from earlier this year). Most of the detail (and possibly the budget) is on the hit music and videos of that particular year, but the premium price paid for the royalties would’ve been better spent on better writers. Overall feel is a bit plastic, with acting not too convincing, so this one is a dropper.