Glory Days

Glory Days 5l193l

2002
Glory Days
Glory Days

Glory Days 5l193l

6.4 | TV-14 | en | Drama

Wünderkind author Mike Dolan achieved literary fame at age 21 with a steamy exposé on his seemingly idyllic Maine town. Six years later, he hasn't written another word and reluctantly returns home in search of an antidote... where he is welcomed back with all the warmth of a lynch mob and where various odd and unpleasant occurrences are happening.

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EP1  Grim Ferrytale
Jan. 16,2002
Grim Ferrytale

Mike returns home to Glory Island and witnesses a murder aboard the ferry. A sinister board game may hold the clue to the series of mysterious occurrences in town.

EP2  The Devil Made Me Do It
Jan. 23,2002
The Devil Made Me Do It

Mike interviews a young piano prodigy who claims to be possessed by a demon. The town holds auditions for a local production of The Wizard of Oz. Mitzi and Hazel squabble over Hazel’s years-ago affair with Mitzi’s husband.

EP3  Miss Fortune Teller
Jan. 30,2002
Miss Fortune Teller

When Sam becomes third in a string of abducted girls, Mike, Ellie and Rudy hasten to learn the kidnapper's identity. They also investigate a psychic who claims to have known that Sam and her friend would be abducted. Meanwhile, the missing girls find themselves in a frightening predicament.

EP4  Death, Lies and Videotape
Feb. 06,2002
Death, Lies and Videotape

FBI agents arrive in Glory in an attempt to track down a serial killer. Mike is suspicious of Ellie's visiting friend and snoops through his belongings, finding an incriminating videotape. Meanwhile, Mitzi encourages Sara to spend some time with a pediatrician from out of town.

EP5  The Lost Girls
Feb. 13,2002
The Lost Girls

After Rudy and Mike have a run-in with some strange young women who claim to be vampires, Ellie discovers that the body of a murder victim was drained of blood. Mike is convinced that the death and vampirism are related, but Rudy remains skeptical. Meanwhile, Zane is given an invitation by one of the self-proclaimed vamps, and Ellie takes a painting class.

EP6  Everybody Loves Rudy
Feb. 20,2002
Everybody Loves Rudy

Rudy gets locked up in his own jail when a woman the sheriff met through personal ads is killed shortly after their date—and his fingerprints are found on the murder weapon. Mike follows leads on potential suspects, who include the peculiar personals editor and a woman who had a key to the victim's house. Meanwhile, a cheerleader asks Zane out.

EP7  There Goes the Neighborhood
Mar. 11,2002
There Goes the Neighborhood

An eccentric resident is found murdered after he stumbles upon strange tubes in the ground that lead to a man who has been buried alive in a coffin. Meanwhile, Mitzi plans a welcome party for her friendly new neighbors, and Sam takes an interest in the couple's son.

EP8  No Guts, No Glory
Mar. 18,2002
No Guts, No Glory

The murder of a beauty pageant contestant leads Mike, Rudy and Ellie to suspect the separated woman's husband. Meanwhile, Sam sets her sights on an older man; Mike interviews the victim's brother—a local hero—for the paper; and Ellie is jealous over Mike's reunion with an ex-girlfriend.

EP9  Clowning Glory
Mar. 25,2002
Clowning Glory

An attempt by the Glory Chamber of Commerce to cheer up the town by bringing in a clown troupe backfires when an unidentified harlequin commits a series of grisly murders. Rudy has a romantic encounter with Sara's visiting friend, but it sours when he begins to suspect her of being the killer. Meanwhile, Ellie tells Mike how she really feels about the quality of his writing.

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6.4 | TV-14 | en | Mystery | More Info
Released: 2002-01-16 | Released Producted By: Miramax , Outerbanks Entertainment Country: United States of America Budget: 0 Revenue: 0 Official Website:
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Wünderkind author Mike Dolan achieved literary fame at age 21 with a steamy exposé on his seemingly idyllic Maine town. Six years later, he hasn't written another word and reluctantly returns home in search of an antidote... where he is welcomed back with all the warmth of a lynch mob and where various odd and unpleasant occurrences are happening.

Genre

Mystery

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Cast

Amy Stewart

Director

Bob Weinstein

Producted By

Miramax , Outerbanks Entertainment

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Eddie Cahill
Eddie Cahill

as Mike Dolan

Poppy Montgomery
Poppy Montgomery

as Ellie Sparks

Emily VanCamp
Emily VanCamp

as Sam Dolan

Ben Crowley
Ben Crowley

as Zane Walker

Amy Stewart
Amy Stewart

as Sara Dolan

Bob Weinstein
Bob Weinstein

Producer

Kevin Williamson
Harvey Weinstein

Glory Days Audience Reviews 71t2b

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....