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TV Show Reviews
"Brain
Dead" review by Suzanne
7/5/16
Airs
Mondays, 10/9c on CBS
It's hard to explain why I don't like this show. It's not
that I hate it. I might even watch it if there was nothing
else on. It just doesn't grab. I usually like any show
that has to do with scifi or supernatural, but this just
tries to be too many things at once: comedy, political
satire, scifi, thriller, and horror. There's just too much
going on and none of it that I love.
The show is by the same team that brought us "The Good
Wife," which was a great show that I loved, so in theory, I
should love this one, too. However, it doesn't always work
out that way, does it? The show is very farcical to me
and hard to take seriously. I guess if you can believe
that aliens send insects to the earth, then believing that
they eat politicians' brains is not that far-fetched, but I
just don't buy it. Maybe they do explain it in a later
episode.
I know that some people love the show, so please do watch
and form your own opinion. Mary Elizabeth Winstead stars as
Laurel, who gets drawn into Washington politics and figures
out that something weird is going on. Her brother is a
congressman (Danny Pino, who's also great) and her father
also works in Washington (not sure what he does). Her father
offers to pay off her student loans if she works for her
brother for the summer, so she reluctantly agrees. She's an
unsuccessful documentary film maker. Tony Shalhoub plays a
boozy Republican politician, and he does a fine job, but I'd
rather watch "Monk" re-runs, to be honest.
The big joke of the show is that aliens are eating
politicians' brains and causing discord. That's why they
don't get anything done and why they're always at each
others' throats etc. Ha ha, get it? But that is not that
funny. Maybe I take real life politics too seriously to
enjoy it. Anyway, it would have made more sense if they'd
made it so that Donald Trump's brain was eaten by
aliens...then at least we'd have a good reason for his
behavior!
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