Don't Waste Your Time: Eleventh Hour

It's been quite the year of X-Files copy cats, and while I am not one to eviscerate fledgling shows, I have to say watching the pilot of Eleventh Hour was verging on painful.

Within the first five minutes my friends and I were already asking "What!?" and giving each other confused looks. I am all about complex TV that challenges the viewer, but in a pilot I prefer to understand where I am and who I am watching before you go off and complex me. I also felt very little attachment to the characters and their stereotypical behavior, Rufus Sewell is hot but beyond that I really wasn't impressed. And adding to the confusion was my inability to figure out exactly which characters would be recurring and thus who I should care about. All of which could be forgiven if I had been watching a gripping, kick ass pilot, however, in my opinion, this was not that by any means.

I will say that I've never been a huge CSI fan myself (I lean towards Law and Order) and episodic dramas without overarching plot lines usually do not grab me (unless I'm in the midst of some epic marathon) so I would take my opinion with a grain of salt.

Decide for yourself: Eleventh Hour airs Thursdays at 10pm on CBS