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Pilot Review: LONE STAR
Adrianne, James and Eloise are desperately seeking an audience
It seems like a miracle, when a network broadcaster tries to air a cable series. It would have been a miracle, when the ratings showed that the audience has interest in such shows on networks. But looking at the 1.3/3 Lone Star delivered Monday night, I am asking myself if this steamy project was dead on development order from the beginning. How could such an intelligent series work on a broadcaster on weeknights, dancing as a competition, which already draws 20 million viewers in front of the screen? How can such an intelligent series work, when no one wants to watch it on a broadcaster? What is this world going to do in five years, when not even FOX finds its guts to order a similar show again, because everybody knows that it won’t be a ratings success, and instead a bigger bomb than Joel Schumacher’s Batman movies? There is a lot to discuss about all of this, but this post is still a review of Lone Star and its pilot episode. My expectations were rising, as the start of the new network season came closer, and I can say that my expectations were fulfilled. Lone Star is a great series. On the wrong channel. Now there is only hope that the word-of-mouth after the pilot will be bigger and stronger than before the pilot. This show desperately needs an audience to save intelligent TV shows on a broadcasting level. Because otherwise Lone Star will be the last series of its kind on either FOX, NBC, ABC or CBS.
for graphic language, sexual references and depiction of fictional violence
