Slasher Disaster

Instead of just continuing to watch the hilarious Girls5Eva, as planned, for some reason today I chose to watch a TV series called Slasher I suddenly remembered existed, while riding my exercise bike. It began in 2016 and continues to this day, for some reason. I watched only the very first episode, so perhaps it radically improves somewhere down the line.

I do like watching horror while exercising, as it gets the blood up, so to speak, more than other genres. And I have watched some true garbage.

I haven't thought too much about my preference for movies over television. I guess I do have such a preference, but I have also seen great television that's better than most movies, so it can't be too pronounced. Still, I acknowledge that this preference exists.

It's not fair to judge a show by its pilot. Slasher is a pretty good concept for a show. And Canada has always been good at horror. But, Jesus, what a piece of shit this episode was.

Slasher is an anthology show, season by season. Each season is a new story, a new killer, blah blah blah. There are a lot of possibilities in this premise.

But, by 2016, was a generic, uncredible, expurgated, badly executed, unimaginative approach enough? Evidently—a sixth season is on the way.

Yeah, yeah, I get that television is supposed to be gallingly mediocre, dude. And, yeah, I'm judging this shit by the first episode. But that's not entirely unfair. Are you even going to bother to try?

Now I feel like have to watch one more episode to be fair, but I know what it's going to be like. Maybe I skip to season two and see if a new setting improves it.