StunnaKrypto Self-important, over-dramatic, uninspired.
RyothChatty ridiculous rating
Pluskylang Great Film overall
Dorathen Better Late Then Never
BlackholeTraveller I watched this show on TV, it was okay then, now I'm re-watching my DVD set and have to tell you that this show has done it all wrong. Kevin Williamson did a fantastic job developing "Dawson's Creek", he originally intended to write this show as a drama, but the network (The WB) wanted to have a boring murder of the week show, so they got one, and I'm happy that it lasted only for 9 episodes. Let's start with the positive aspects: I like the cast, the actors do their best I think, they could do better, but those crappy scripts prevent them from having much to do. Every episode is a stand alone complex, what happens is forgotten next episode. The characters are interesting, they could be better, but what should they do if 90 % of every episodes revolves around a boring Case of the Week, when again a person is murdered or a freak shows up? There are almost no character moments or development, the best we get is a boring subplot about Zane or Sara dating some person that is gone by the end of the episode. And it's totally unbelievable how often the main characters are involved in the crimes, Sam gets kidnapped, Rudy gets locked up for killing a woman he had a date with, the pattern is always the same: We have a crime in the beginning, then Rudy and of course Mike, who can't sit still, who has to be a bit or sometimes a bit more annoying to find out what's going on, try to figure out who did it. There's always a first person, then a 2nd candidate and it's always the last person (or almost always) who is the criminal in the end - 4 of the first 6 episodes ended with the bad guy pointing a gun at some of the good guys - dear writers, that's soooo boring! I only bought the DVD set for good money (9 episodes for like 40 bucks is expensive) because I'm a huge Emily VanCamp fan, she had her first television role and I really like her character Sam, she's cute, sassy, an interesting character, let's not talk about the fact that almost all her scenes are with her maybe BF Zane. I'm thankful to Kevin Williamson for putting her on the show, because she got the awesome role of Amy Abbott in Everwood immediately when Glory Days was canceled, but this show is really boring, it's more fun to watch CSI something something (and I hate those shows) then a crime show with drama that tries way to hard, but the results are boring and sometimes even stupid. The setting of Glory is really nice, it could've been better, if it had been a drama.
Claudio Carvalho The young writer and prodigal son Mike Dolan (Eddie Cahil) returns home, after writing a successful book, where he used real events with his relatives and closest friends as if they were fictional characters. While traveling in a ferry, he is the unique person to see a man being pushed overboard. The office in charge of the investigation is Sheriff Rudy Dunlop (Jay R. Ferguson), a former friend and hurt with the comments of Mike's book. The coroner Ellie (Poppy Montgomery) finds fingerprints in the dead body indicating that Mike's observations were correct. After resolving this crime, a slaughterer clown kills and decapitates his victims. And finally, in a competition about the best seaman of the island, persons are being drowned on earth. Yesterday I saw this VHS, released by 'Warner do Brasil' with the compilation of three episodes of this unreleased series (in Brazil) and I liked. The unique known actress (for me) is Theresa Russell, but the young cast works very well, there are good sarcastic lines and the stories are very engaging. My complaint is against the disgusting procedure of 'Warner do Brasil', which released a VHS with a cover and a title ('Demon Town: The City of the Demon') inducing the viewers that 'Glory Days' would be a horror movie. My vote is seven.Title (Brazil): 'Demon Town: A Cidade do Demônio' ('Demon Town: The City of the Demon')
WiSH-on-the-StArS This show was truly an accomplishment for the WB, giving a nice break from their sap-dripping teen shows that only Gilmore Girls and Smallville have seemed to accomplish otherwise. The dry humor was wonderful and refreshing, and the romantic tension between Mike and Ellie was fun and edgy, avoiding what many other shows do not - jumping into it too fast, leaving no room for anticipation or appropriate development. Also, the weekly obstacles created not only something to look forward to, but something that truly held one's interest for the entire hour. The characters were great in each aspect, often going outside the lines while not being outrageous, just delightfully quirky. Unfortunately, as the WB often does, this show was canceled due to "poor ratings" in nearly impossible and illogical timeslots, being a midseason replacement for the popular Angel and jumping between airing after 7th Heaven and Dawson's Creek, who's audiences would not likely be interested in this show, of a very different genre, in that place. Well, we can always hope for a video release.
virtualstranger The premise of "Glory Days," an actual suspense- thriller television show, was one that I'm sure filled many people with hope and interest. What they've seen, over the past three weeks, has probably crushed those hopes fairly effectively....In the first episode, we are given several creepy elements; a seemingly random murder, a mysterious letter, an entire town where we're told odd behavior is commonplace, with a population who strongly dislike the returning prodigal son (some of whom are his own family), and a disturbingly- designed board game, just to name a few. Any one of these elements, handled correctly, could carry a show for several episodes. "Glory Days" disposes of them all by the end of the very first episode, explaining away every element in precise detail, wrapping up every possible loose end.This pattern, alas, was repeated with the second and third episodes as well. Each individual story sewn up nice and tight, with nothing left to gnaw at our minds or make us wonder at work the next day. Each episode ends exactly as it began, with only superficial changes to the characters lives, and no change at all to the world they live in.Answering every question mere minutes after it's asked hardly builds suspense, and a mystery that's solved in less than an hour isn't much of a mystery. The most effective element of mystery and suspense, the part that gets people hooked, is not knowing, not having the answers. To paraphrase Neil Gaiman, people forget the stories, but they always the mysteries.There are no mysteries on Glory Island. Simply put, instead of stepping into the shoes of "Twin Peaks" or "The X-Files," or possibly bringing something new to the small- screen, "Glory Days" is merely a hip, teen- oriented version of "Matlock" or "Murder She Wrote"A shame, because the cast, and the audience, all deserve something better....