Catwalk

The first season of Catwalk (syndicated) was a lot of fun. I liked the tangled relationships between the characters; it felt like things in a performing band might have really been like. And Catwalk was the debut of the fabulous Neve Campbell, who later became much better known for Party of Five and the Scream movies.

Alas, the second season (shown on MTV, I believe) messed it up badly. The two most appealing characters on the show, Daisy (Campbell) and Atlas (Christopher Lee Clements) were gone. Instead, it was built around the depressing, whiny Jesse (Paul Popowich). The sound of the band changed as well. Instead of the rap-influenced hip-hop of the first season, Catwalk was now more of a straight-up guitar-rock band (no surprise, with their rapper, Atlas, off the show), and not a very good one.

I loved this show and never missed an episode when I was younger. I so wish YTV would re-air it or that it would come out on DVD sometime. I would totally buy it and probably get it as gifts for a couple friends of mine.

Neve Campbell was young fresh and new, and this was where I first saw her act way before her debut to the real Hollywood screen in the 'Scream' movies.

Someone who I see often up in Brampton is the guy who played the character of Atlas. He's always at this grocery store picking up stuff in the area near where one of my friends lives. It's always a cool reminder to me of the show. I also see the guy who owned the club the band played in, and the guy who played Billy K once in a while downtown T.O.

Man I miss this show, lol.

The series had some potential, it had some qualities that posessed to me to watch it, I admit it had it's moments and then it it had its low points. Neve Campbell's character Daisy is this little girl almost that falls in love with the bad boy. The band had a few good songs, relationships in the bad screwed things up, and our boy Atlas who doesn't sing or play an instrument is in the band, as what? a dancer of all things...it had a good run, but glad that it ended...