The Warden wasn't the worst part of the show, but eh - he was just a familiar type that I've seen many times before. The big mystery went nowhere, so I wouldn't be watching even if it came back.
Sooo... DID Alcatraz go anywhere? Was anything revealed?
Well they showed us a map in a secret room at the end, but by then I was so bored of the whole thing, I didn't pay much attention and it certainly wasn't worth slogging through all those boring episodes for.
Now if the networks would get rid of the rest of the crap on their networks and start from scratch
You should watch the CW, they're cleaning house pretty thoroughly.
So are NBC and ABC, they're all up shit creek, ratings-wise.
ABC at least won't be doing a lot of hand-waving mystery type shows, since they're going heavily into female-skewing soaps, inspired by the success of
Revenge and
Once Upon a Time. I guess those shows have "mystery" but they're mainly about soapy things - romance, rivalries, families, scheming, big dramatic emotional scenes. I like that stuff more when there are fantasy/supernatural elements attached.
But NBC needs to keeping trying to appeal to both male and female audiences - they can't waste the boost the Olympics will give them, and football saves their asses every year - so they've already picked up JJ Abrams' next one-season wonder,
Revolution. There are rumors they may pick up a drama about 18th C pirates (well, that's different anyway) and there's a supernatural-ish Western called
The Frontier that might also get the nod.
If NBC needs to attract men, then I think they need more adventure rather than mystery. Pirates and Conestoga wagons both move across a landscape and encounter stuff. That kind of show isn't very common anymore - it needs to be resurrected. I'm sick of shows where people are stuck just in one town or area, or it's all about where they work. I want them to
go somewhere! Preferably in spaceships but boats and wagons will do in a pinch.
That was one of the best things in the whole show...
