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Sure, Mick's life is ridiculoous, but you don't go lookin' for realism between "Ghost Whisperer" and "Numb3rs." [05 Oct 2007, p.67]
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Moonlight. It's basically "Angel" without the search-for-a-soul underpinnings that gave Angel depth, and with a more ponderous script and less adept cast.
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The focus is on the dangerous and forbidden relationship between Mick and Beth and his efforts to keep his past a secret. Whether there's enough material there to knit together a series remains to be seen.
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It doesn't go quite far enough into uncharted territory but gets off to a basically promising start nonetheless.
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Moonlight falls somewhere in the middle of the new paranormal pack. It's neither great nor awful.
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What's not fun? At least half of the rest of the show.
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With a winning lead player and supporting cast, plus an interesting premise, Moonlight has potential.
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Moonlight is just a weak, generic private-eye drama with a vampire story overlay.
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It's just sort of an underwritten mess.
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The show plays like bad imitation noir where the private eye can occasionally sink his teeth into the villain.
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Something got lost between concept and execution, and instead of suspense we get silliness
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Alex O'Loughlin is bogged down by trite dialogue, half-hearted support, perfunctory exposition, and better-to-look-good-than-make-sense production priorities.
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While it is formulaic and slow-paced, Moonlight is stylish entertainment with a charming star aimed at a specific audience--the folks who stay home Friday night and watch CBS.
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Moonlight, unfortunately, doesn't trust its audience and so falls to exposition via a fake talk-show interview at the beginning, and then throughout with dialogue dully delivered by Internet investigative reporter Beth Turner (Sophia Myles).
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[Mick and Beth's] across-the-decades bond, however, doesn't compensate for how pedestrian the initial story is -- playing like a conventional detective show, with Mick showcasing his otherworldly powers (strong, and very, very fast) only during a passable action sequence in the final act.
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The direction is flat-out awful (there are many choppy shots from bizarre, if not inexplicable, angles). Much of the dialogue is groan-inducing, the acting by some of the guest actors is jaw-droppingly wooden, and I guessed who the villain was way before the halfway mark.
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It's hardly bloodcurdling adventure, but it doesn't bite.
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In almost every way, Moonlight demands that we question the grounds for its existence.
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Much of Moonlight is amateurish, but nothing is more amateurish than the artificial chemistry between O'Loughlin and Myles.
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I don't know exactly why Moonlight, which acquired "Veronica Mars'" adorable bad boy, Jason Dohring, as a second-round draft pick, seems so very lifeless.
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The hacky writing is interchangeable with any of CBS' police procedurals, and the boy-band good looks of Alex O'Loughlin as the detective, Mick St. John, inspire neither fear nor dark sexual longings
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This one is almost impressively wonderless.
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It's just heinous. Absurd, laughable, painful to watch--you name it, Moonlight has it all.
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This vampire detective show (sorry, can't resist this) is one that first bites, then sucks. Hard.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 502 out of 557
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Mixed: 10 out of 557
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Negative: 45 out of 557
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Jan 19, 2018This review contains spoilers, click full review link to view.
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Apr 27, 2015
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Dec 20, 2010