Viva Laughlin:Well, it wasn't easy, but CBS managed to put a show on at 10 p.m. on Thursday that was significantly worse than
Big Shots.
I didn't think it could be done. Major congratulations are in order for Les Moonves, etc. The congratulations will, however, be quickly followed by questioning along the likes of: "WTF were you thinking?"
Ok, I don't particularly love musicals, but I really don't like whatever this was. It wasn't a musical because the actors were only kind of singing along with the actual songs. And they doing it in a half-assed manner reminiscent of Britney Spears at the VMAs. You couldn't even freaking hear them some of the time.
As stupid/bad as the songs were, I felt like there weren't enough of them because the spoken dialogue and plot were so much more awful! And, dude, the main character guy is
replusive. And not in a
House/
Dexter/
Boston Legal kind of way, but in a there's-
nothing-remotely-likeable-or-redeemable-about-this-person-
at-all kind of way.
I felt badly for some of the actors in the show who can do so much better (and have done better in the past): Senator McAllistor's brother from
Brothers and Sisters (a.k.a. Rex from
Days of Our Lives), Sherry Tinsdale from
Gilmore Girls, and Professor Landry from
Veronica Mars. I feel particularly badly for Prof. Landry because he was on
Pushing Daisies just last week! That's a long way to fall in a very short amount of time.
Most of the time while watching
Viva Laughlin, I honestly could not believe what my eyes were seeing and my ears were hearing. And not at all in a good way.
Premiere Rating: 1 / 10(Well, I know it was worse than
Big Shots, which got a 2.5, but I'm not really sure where to place this one in the 0 to 2 range. I'll go with a 1 because I suppose that somehow it could have been worse: they could have sung only Spice Girls and Celine Dion songs, they could have played a transexual hooker plot line for laughs, they could have aired a blank screen for an hour, etc.)
