The mini-series was awesome. When I was a kid I developed my lifelong love affair with tv. And nothing could be better than a mini-series because it was 2 hours a night of tv and it usually started on Sunday night and ran the whole week and it felt like it was an important cultural event that the whole country was watching together so my parents almost always let me watch them (not Thorn Birds though...I had to sneak to Grandma Georgia's to watch that one).
These are my favorites (don't freak out, I was too young for "Roots" and saw it in college, not in mini-series form):
North and South (Patrick Swayze as Orry and Kirstie Alley as Virgilia = super hot)
The Day After (scared the hell out of me and everyone else)
V (whatever happened to Marc Singer? He's having quite a week...Chevy Chase's character on "Community" came as BeastMaster on the Halloween episode)
So I was totally excited for the remake of V and I shouldn't have been. First, it's filled with C-list actors (sorry Bailey from Party of Five). Second, it isn't a mini-series, it's just an hour long weekly series like anything else. Third, it all feels like it's been seen before (one character actually said, "This is Independence Day").
Nikki FInke, take a memo: Bring back the epic mini-series with big stars and five nights in a row... it brings families and even nations together... maybe it would even solve the health care debate... I don't know, but it could be awesome.
