Totally unfunny vanity project for the absolutely untalented Will Ferrell. If this is supposed to be a send-up of the mini-series craze of the 1970s and 1980s, it's about two decades too late. Cartoonish, silly, downright predictable. I watched the first two episodes in order to give it a chance, in hopes that it would develop, but, it got worse as it went on. Seems that they ran out of ideas about mid-way through the second segment. I came to ask myself, "Why am I watching this? I could be doing something much more entertaining, like doing the dishes or cleaning out the catbox." You'd think with all the money Tobey Maguire makes that he'd spring for a bottle of shampoo. Sad to see someone like Tim Robbins reduced to appearing in a piece of dreck like this. And, the rest the cast? Well, a cadre of has-beens and never-was. What passes for funny among present generation television producers, directors, writers and audiences is pretty sad.
Review of The Spoils of Babylon
