Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I'm only rating this one star, because I can't rate it zero. What did this show have? It had contrived situations, bad acting, incredibly trite and overused stereotypes (the ubiquitous hip black DJ, replete with stand-up dreads, his Big-Beautiful-Woman female tecchy assistant [because tecchy chicks can never be hot], The red-headed hottie-but-has-a-past crusading journalist, the big hunky action-star competence-porn hero-but-has-a-secret for whom she falls, hard [10 seconds after her husband mysteriously disappears], the self-inflated bigshot from Town Hall, who turns into Hitler the second he thinks he can take over; his psycho son, who is big and tall and strong but emotionally 8 years old; OH, and wait, yes, I almost forgot: the bi-racial lesbian couple with their "adopted" punky, gothic-y, rebellious teen daughter), and never misses a stereotype, beat of trite dialogue or stupid action piece from the beginning. It's so awful you almost HAVE to watch, because, after all: Spielberg, right? The guy who brought us the magnificent mini-series, Taken? That guy? And you keep thinking..."Spielberg, Spielberg, any second now, this is gonna get better..." but it NEVER DOES. It gets WORSE. When the town has an act of violence, the solution? Take everybody's guns away, "voluntarily," to which--with food and water and other necessities like medicine running critically low, the townspeople all pretty much happily give up (to the Egomaniacal Town Boss, who of course, keeps HIS, along with his band of armed vigilantes). Really? If people were being attacked around you, for their food, etc., would YOU give up your ONLY protection, in a town with ONE cop? And it simply goes downhill from there, plot-wise and suspension-of-disbelief-wise. The acting is just...dreadful. The girl who plays the teenage heroine (who gets locked in a basement by her lover, mind you) is wooden. Her "brother" is wooden, and his voice gets screechy when he's supposed to be compelling. The "hero" spends all his time looking brooding and mysterious. (Oh, gosh, is he good or evil?). The Sheriff? The poor actress playing the Sheriff was so bad I actually started muting the sound whenever she was on, because I'd start laughing out loud at how inanimate she was. Her character was dumber than the halved cow that, fortunately for it, only suffered through a few seconds of agony at the beginning of the show, unlike the rest of us, who suffered far, far longer. In short: unwatchably bad. If you have to choose between this, or old episodes of something that was also dreadful--say, The Brady Bunch? Pick the Brady Bunch. Don't waste your time and money on this drivel. When you consider the shows now available via Amazon, Roku, Acorn, etc., this doesn't even deserve a place on your "I ought to try it" list. Not if you have two warm braincells to rub together, no matter how much you may love King and Spielberg. Somewhere, somehow--those two guys got locked up in closets and film students on crack cocaine made this mess. Trust me. And if you don't listen, don't say you weren't warned. ;-)