Primeval: Terrible T.V. show, or the worst T.V. show?
Basically, you take some mediocre acting, combine with poor attempts at off-the-cuff dialogue, mix in the most contrived series of events dinosaurs on screen have ever been portrayed in, bake it halfway, and garnish with the worst pseudo-science since Indiana Jones Meets The Aliens. Voila! You just made yourself one serving of the new season of ‘Primeval’. Although, I do not have the testicular fortitude to confirm this through experience: I suspect that pretty much the same recipe has been used for the last 13 episodes the show has been in existence.
The fact that ITV (they’re the one that’s not BBC) claimed they had an average of 6.39 million viewers through the first season means that: the metric system does weird things when counting T.V. viewers; or television in the UK really does suck that bad.
Whatever the case may be, I’ll be spending no more time on it than writing this post to warn you all, lest you too find yourself suddenly, and achingly, wishing back the last 44 minutes of your life.
Also, anyone else notice that you never see guns (no matter how many) solve anything in mainstream British TV. I think the poor bastards have forgotten what it is a gun does, besides making loud noises. I pity those folk…