Zero Hour Pilot Review

"Revolves around a bizarre twist of fate that pulls a man who's spent 20 years as the editor of a skeptics magazine into one of the most compelling conspiracies in human history." - IMDB

Last week, in what I can only describe as their latest attempt to further confuse and annoy me, ABC released their new drama, Zero Hour.  If you were to ask, "Hey, what would it look like if National Treasure and Hellboy got together and had a drunken fling?"  Well here ya go!  Now, I'm not saying that this pairing is necessarily a bad thing.  I mean, there are Nazis, the occult, strange artifacts, crazy maps found in weird places, and even a historical ship full of dead people buried in middle of sno-where!(see what I did there, cause snow?...ah, bite me!)  The opening itself seems kind of dark and exciting and leaves you craving answers.  Based on the introduction of the story alone, this is gonna be some good shit!  However, if this first episode is any indication of how the writing, acting, and dialog is going to be, then we're gonna be disappointed.  I kinda don't know how to describe it other then,well...bad.  It's just really bad.  It's like this first episode should have been three nicely paced episodes, but instead they shoved it all into this clunky mess with no room for us to give a shit about any of these people.  The dialog to me sounds like the verbal representation of someone trying to ride a tricycle up a flight of stairs, and makes just about as much sense.  It's full of trite exchanges like, "I'll do you a solid." "I'm with the FBI!" "I don't trust you lady!" "I'm trained with a gun and licensed to use it!" (I'll post the trailer below. Seriously, try not wanting to punch someone after everything Anthony Edwards says!) That's the most frustrating thing about this show because I feel like the story itself has a lot of potential, because I'm quite intrigued by what is actually going on.  I'm really hoping that past this first episode they have time to develop the characters a bit, but I don't have a lot of faith.  So, I'll leave it up to you whether or not you want to try this out.  We're probably going to end up with a cancelled show and a bunch of unanswered questions. Against my better judgement, I'm gonna give it another couple of episodes before I give up on it.  Don't say I didn't warn you though.