ABC
To all those of you who watched Happy Town on ABC last night and hated it, I apologize for not having warned you away. I watched the screeners ABC made available and thought it was almost unwatchable: a clumsy, exposition-heavy compilation of horror and mystery-show clichés overlaid with a few Lynch-for-Dummies sinister-small-town notes. It also seemed like, commercially, it would be dead on arrival, so I made the triage decision to skip it. Some of you may have been the unfortunate casualties of that decision. On the other hand, I’d love to hear from anyone who can make the case for the show. Is it even possible for broadcast TV to do a horror series and do it right?