- Network: NBC
- Series Premiere Date: May 23, 2013
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The Save Me pilot saves itself artistically. But debuting in a summertime double dose makes series salvation improbable.
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Ms. Heche's Beth is just madly menacing enough to keep things interesting.
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Save Me really wants to be is a sly, prickly black comedy, not the broad, feel-good yukker that it tries to be for most of the pilot--an approach that actually yields few laughs. [24 May 2013, p.77]
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It might not even be around long enough to develop a consistent tone or viewpoint, both of which are lacking in the pilot. But it has a pretty good actress, Anne Heche ("Hung"), at the head of the cast, and it at least tries to add a touch of levity to what has always been a ponderously serious genre.
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There are definite comic possibilities in a character who has God on internal speed-dial, but the premiere episode is too overstuffed to give us a sense of whether the writers are going to be able to make the setup work beyond the few funny but obvious lines in the first show.
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Based on the pilot (which, again, may not represent what the show looked like once Hunt took over), it's an unpleasant series full of hostile caricatures in need of fixing by Beth's heaven-sent advice.
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Tonally, Save Me, with its slightly muddled message about redemption (which in at least one case involves another character's rediscovery of oral sex), doesn't seem to fit with whatever it was that NBC was trying to do with its new sitcoms this season.
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It almost feels like a weird, little indie film if indie films were somewhat flat and predictable.
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This shrill parable of redemption, being burned off in back-to-back episodes, is like a spiritual Enlightened for the tone deaf.
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"Enlightened" with Laura Dern covered some of the same territory with sensitivity and honesty. Save Me, in the premiere, turns this subtle idea into a romp devoid of charm.
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Sometimes they’re [TV networks are] still smart enough to know when they have a stinker.
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Consider it dead on arrival. [27 May 2013, p.40]
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Heche, a strong comic actress, can’t fully conquer the material here, and while the rest of the cast tries hard, there isn’t much with which to get traction.
User score distribution:
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Positive: 10 out of 19
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Mixed: 3 out of 19
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Negative: 6 out of 19
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