Put some soul into the Reaper
I’ve been keen to TV shows lately (probably due to the lack of any decent new movie or just my inability to focus for more than 40 minutes), especially comedy ones. Comedy shows however are usually in the form of short 20-minute episodes, which means I consume a couple of seasons in a week, leaving me constantly searching for replacements. As was the case, I run out of How I Met Your Mother and The Big Bang Theory episodes quite quickly and turned to CW’s new series The Reaper for comfort.
The Reaper is a mix of comedy and action, kind of My Name is Earl meets Heroes. The show is about Sam, whose soul was sold to the Devil by his parents and is obliged to work for him (catching souls that have escaped from hell). Along with his friends (who all work together at dead-end jobs in the local Work Bench home improvement store) he chases down and captures the escaped souls using a different vessel in each episode (provided by the Devil in a variety of forms ranging from vacuum cleaners to birds). As a co-plot, Sam is after his coworker Andi in a classic win-the-girl story.While the series debut was quite promising, it has quickly started to repeat itself. Each episode follows the same basic storyline:
The Reaper is a mix of comedy and action, kind of My Name is Earl meets Heroes. The show is about Sam, whose soul was sold to the Devil by his parents and is obliged to work for him (catching souls that have escaped from hell). Along with his friends (who all work together at dead-end jobs in the local Work Bench home improvement store) he chases down and captures the escaped souls using a different vessel in each episode (provided by the Devil in a variety of forms ranging from vacuum cleaners to birds). As a co-plot, Sam is after his coworker Andi in a classic win-the-girl story.While the series debut was quite promising, it has quickly started to repeat itself. Each episode follows the same basic storyline:
- Observe new ability (related to the escaped soul)
- Check out new vessel
- Meet the devil and get some vague clues about the soul
- Mix in some futile attempts to start something with Andi
- First failed attempt to catch the soul
- Chased / threatened / almost killed by escaped soul
- Find way to use vessel in just the last minute
- Drop off vessel and finish the episode reminiscing about Andi
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