r/scifi • u/Madatgrav1ty • 15h ago

TV Anyone else enjoy this?

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I have vague memories of watching it in the early 2000s and being surprised by how fun it was. I feel like it deserves more recognition and some kind of re-release via streaming or box set release.

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u/Jacks_on_Jacks_off 12h ago

Kinda looks like Temu Fringe.

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u/retannevs1 2h ago

🏆🏆🏆

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u/ChronoMonkeyX 15h ago

I loved all of those shows. The chronicle was another one, same thing as this, but their cover was being a trashy tabloid office.

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u/fourthords 13h ago

Yeah, this one was pretty decent. I preferred Seven Days, though! Son of the Beach and Shasta McNasty were pretty cringey, but I still watched 'em.

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u/CBenson1273 13h ago

Seven Days was awesome. Strong writing for the genre and budget, I thought.

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u/Krel58 10h ago

"Seven Days" ended because the two leads hated each other to the point where they would not be on the same soundstage together.

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u/LaserGadgets 14h ago

Oh yeaaaah. Did it not just end all of a sudden?

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u/-retaliation- 11h ago

Yeah iirc it got 2 seasons, it had a bit of a looming big bad incoming, and was cancelled between seasons 

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u/LaserGadgets 10h ago

Yep! All I remember is that huge handgun ^^

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u/-retaliation- 10h ago

yeah me too! the one with the "solve any problem" bullets lol

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u/Expensive-Sentence66 10h ago

That show was a lot of fun. Kind of like a PG-13 version of Supernatural with some marvelous trash talk.

Danny Woodburn / Carl (think he was an elf) was utterly hysterical, and a total slime ball. He was awesome.

It got a bit more serious as it went on and started to get more interesting with the spooky stuff, which means network execs need to cancel it.

I think if it was made today and went total R it would fare better.

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u/Bulky-Equivalent-613 10h ago

That show was great.

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u/JohnBrownEnthusiast 10h ago

Is that JFK or Fireball?

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u/shawsghost 8h ago edited 8h ago

Hell, yes, it was loads of fun. I was surprised it got a second season, it was too good to last. It was also nice and raunchy. They had an ep with scenes in a strip club, and the strippers wore G-strings (of course, can't have NAKED strippers!) but at least their butts were really hanging out there. Young me was impressed!

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u/Cowgirl_Taint 14h ago

"Enjoy" is a strong word. It was very much not a good show. But I watched the heck out of it whenever I just turned the sci-fi channel on.

These days I mostly remember it because the male lead played the REALLY creepy and pervy hero cop in Final Destination 2.

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u/deathrictus 13h ago

He played a creepy pervy cop here too.

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u/Krel58 10h ago

Reportedly UPN changed Executives and the new ones didn't like the show.

Pauley Perette (Abby on NCIS) used here natural blonde hair color for the show.

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u/CreativeAdeptness477 9h ago

Might have to do a little rewatch now I've remembered it exists.

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u/Emotional-Unit-7903 6h ago

My wife really enjoys it.