The fall season snuck up on us last night. I skipped the season premiere of Prison Break (in favor of Kyle XY, really good lately) and only half-watched Vanished, the new kidnapping thriller that follows it.
I was going to do a full review of Vanished, but I don't really have that much to say about it. I feel about it about the same way I felt about Prison Break when it premiered: mildly engaged, but mostly concerned that the star is being wasted in schlocky material. I feel even worse, maybe, for Gale Harold than I did for Wentworth Miller, because his role, rule-breaking FBI Agent Graham Kelton, unlike Miller's OCD-tinged master criminal Michael Scofield, is not going to garner him any of the attention he deserves.
Also similar to Prison Break, there's evidence of desperation, in the form of a bet-hedging B-plot conspiracy theory, this one promising Opus Dei-style self-flagellating monks. How current! -- Peter
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