So, it took all of four episodes for a new show to descend from promising sci-fi show to a same-as-all-the-other shows about high school dating. The overall plot quickly starts playing second fiddle to the typical, run-of-the-mill, standard, usual, perennial high school travails that so thoroughly suffuse and so utterly destroy just about every U.S. TV-show aimed at a teen audience. Can there be no other content in these shows? Can there be no shred of originality? Must there always be insufferable, prudish morals about how horrid it is for teens to be interested in sex and how it all must necessarily end in tragedy? How monumentally annoying. How incredibly moronic.
From the beginning, Kyle XY read like a diluted relaunch of "John Doe" (2002) for a teen audience, complete with the mysterious sign (oooh!). But it was intriguing enough in the first and second episodes. The best thing about the show was Maguerite MacIntyre. I just love her. She's so open and sympathetic - definitely my main reason to watch the show.
But I'm not gonna watch it anymore, because it's descended into the usual morass of high school shenanigans, and anything else the show might contain is being relegated to near-obscurity. Sorry, I'm just not coming along on that wagon. The main plot has to develop faster than this in order to keep me hooked. Besides, I was annoyed with Lori from the beginning. I have no time for "normal". No time for cliché. Josh was more entertaining, but after the fourth episode, where it became clear that any hope of succeeding romantically and sexually had to be rigorously undermined for every single character... well, that's just misanthropic. I can't watch.
I rated the first two episodes a 7 out of 10, and the third episode a 6. With the fourth episode it's down to 4. Goodbye, Kyle XY.
From the beginning, Kyle XY read like a diluted relaunch of "John Doe" (2002) for a teen audience, complete with the mysterious sign (oooh!). But it was intriguing enough in the first and second episodes. The best thing about the show was Maguerite MacIntyre. I just love her. She's so open and sympathetic - definitely my main reason to watch the show.
But I'm not gonna watch it anymore, because it's descended into the usual morass of high school shenanigans, and anything else the show might contain is being relegated to near-obscurity. Sorry, I'm just not coming along on that wagon. The main plot has to develop faster than this in order to keep me hooked. Besides, I was annoyed with Lori from the beginning. I have no time for "normal". No time for cliché. Josh was more entertaining, but after the fourth episode, where it became clear that any hope of succeeding romantically and sexually had to be rigorously undermined for every single character... well, that's just misanthropic. I can't watch.
I rated the first two episodes a 7 out of 10, and the third episode a 6. With the fourth episode it's down to 4. Goodbye, Kyle XY.