It’s so bad that it’s just… really really bad. And I know that when something’s this bad there’s a small segment of the populous that hopes that maybe it’s one of those “it’s so bad it’s good” projects. Was he also a piece of shit? Because if he was, then the pilot is a fitting tribute. My father was a physician, a cancer researcher, and he was bipolar.” Ah. “The show has been a great journey for me driven by a passion that is both personal and intellectual. It’s not clear why jazz, especially the cool, Coltrane kind, has become a universal cue to signal smart mentally ill people, but it must be because that music sounds high-minded dumb crazy people probably hear Neil Diamond. It’s a Shonda Rhimes-style medical drama with a twist borrowed from “Homeland” - a bipolar heroine who, when manic, grooves to jazz and binges on sex. Her name is Black, she tells us that people in her field call the brain a black box, and she is an expert at curing everyone’s neurological difficulties except her own! And she frequently refuses to take her medication because she fears becoming dull or, worse, “normal,” which leads her to sleep around, perch on hotel balcony railings while drunk and frequently dance to free-form jazz compositions that only she can hear.Ī show so deeply flawed and absurdly derivative you will wonder if you, like the main character, are experiencing a manic episode.
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Other critics may have lasted longer but they’re no kinder, making it seem as id the best things fans of Kelly Reilly can do is pray the series dies a swift death and she invested her paycheck wisely.ĭescribing the show makes it sound like the sort of thing Jack Donaghy might have scheduled on the “30 Rock” version of NBC: Kelly Reilly plays Catherine Black, a brilliant neurologist who’s known as “the Marco Polo of the brain,” and who has somehow kept secret from all her friends, colleagues, and even her long-term boyfriend Will (David Ajala) that she is bipolar, and subject to abrupt, extreme mood swings from manic to depressive. It just gets better, or worse, from there. Oscar Winners Anthony Hopkins and Colin Firth Face Actors Seeking Their First Nomination
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Plaintiff in Pedophilia Sketch Suit Drops Case Against Tiffany Haddish and Aries Spears My left hand wrestled with the remote in my right hand as part of my brain fought to shut the whole thing off, but the evilness of my right hand won out for those horrifying 32 minutes and now I can never unsee Kelly Reilly dancing like the bipolar imp she plays on ‘Black Box’ when she’s not being a super awesome ‘world famous neurologist.'” (They were, somewhat unusually, the pilot, the third and the seventh, as if by way of whispering, “We promise - it gets better.”) The Hollywood Reporter ‘s Tim Goodman - who, lest we doubt his stamina, made it all the way through an episode of “ Killer Women” - tapped out after half an hour, writing, “I lasted 32 minutes in the pilot - which was a feat of superhuman endurance all things considered. Fortunately, we don’t have to feel too bad for the critical community at large, since it seems few of them got all the way through the three episodes ABC sent out in advance.
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