Advance Review: Boys and girls of IGN fandom, I am sad. Last summer I watched the pilot for a new Da Vinci Code-esque thriller series called Zero Hour and it was one of the most laughably awful things I'd seen in a while. I began to salivate. I don't enjoy trashing bad TV for trashing's sake, but there were moments in the pilot, which stars former ER/Top Gun alum Anthony Edwards as an "anti-conspiracy buff" (what?), that I simply could not wait to wrap my paragraphs around. But I'd have to wait through all the fall premieres, until midseason, for the show to air.
Then, as it turns out, some reshoots happened. And the pilot episode that's now airing this Thursday night on ABC is a much-improved version compared to the one I originally beheld. I don't usually ever mention when I see two different versions of a pilot, but it happens quite a bit. And yes, the newer version is generally better. And with the changes sometimes comes a swell of confidence that someone on the other end saw, or were made to see, the problems that I saw the first time around. And so what's left here ,with Zero Hour, is a decent thrill-ride; albeit one with more than a few logic gaps and some outrageously painful dialogue. But it just might move fast enough and provide enough week-to-week mystery for those viewers looking for a new, serialized clues/conspiracy series.
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