Clifford Nelson
This show started out on the slow side but improved, and you can see that from the ratings. Then the writers started to writing a lot more twists to the story, and the ratings improved. The network never adverted the show, and put it at a bad time. Unfortunately seems like it is very difficult for a scripted show to survive. This show had a lot of possibilities, and would have probably gotten even better with time. Hate those reality shows. They are like watching WWF, equally fake, and ultimately boring. Would be nice if a cable network took it over, and they could make it racier. Doubt it could ever beat out American Horror Story, but maybe get close to Lost. Grimm certainly got better the 2nd season, and think it was because the show got more money, and think more money could make this show much better.
Jon Whittet-Pitney
I admit, I didn't like the show after watching just the pilot...and admit to being put off by the cheesy wording (666) -- having found that number turning up too many times in my own personal life to feel quite too comfortable, or attracted to anything pandering to its mystique (though 2*3^2*37, as factorizations go, is rather pretty).Anyway, here comes synchronicity (woo woo...): I was going over the documentation of a hypnotherapy certification program I am considering for enrollment. Right thereafter I clicked through a few streaming video sites and found myself, seemingly by accident, looking at the still frame of the first episode (9), at what seemed to be Whoopi Goldberg's inimitable figure. As a Next Generation fan, how could I resist? No sooner had Whoopi's character spoken the words, "anteriograde dissociative amnesia" to a hypnotherapy client, than I was hooked. Now they're speaking my language, through the mouth of a guest with a guest star who would make almost any show a hit with me, and who plays the psychic savant with natural finesse.Since then I've watched all the episodes starting (again) from the beginning. While recognizing the potential for this show (and its themes) to go over like a lead balloon with mass audiences, I have to commend the producers for making the show startlingly "true to life". Of course that is just my opinion. Maybe I just live in a fantasy world or forgot to take my Thorazine or sumpthin. Anyway, on a less personal note, "666" is true to art, that is, at least in its tasteful allusions via thematic and/or episodic references to horror genre-defining classics, such as Rosemary's Baby, as well as to Hitchcock's _Birds_ and _Psycho_, to name a few.Audience recognition of some of the characters and themes from real life, does tend to make for a good supernatural thriller -- one in which characterizations, even casting choices, mirror one's own spooky life experiences in an all-too-literal (ie, synchronistic) fashion. What more could a person want in a scary series? The truth, as it is said, is (at least sometimes) stranger than fiction. But then again, this show indeed is highly weird, as prime time network fictions go. Having said that, however, were the series to reincarnate as a Showtime or HBO production, one would expect them to do much, much more with the characters and other serialized elements. As drama series go, one can only expect so much from ABC, and not a bit more. Witness one of their successes -- one which I enjoy, much as one enjoys a liqueur to fall asleep: Castle. Great actors, excellent writing...undercut by shallow serialized character development, and made saccharine by over-reliance on predictable, failsafe plot formulas. Formulas so sweet, so easily partaken, that neither delirium tremens nor diabetic coma could keep a fan from grasping the plot line. Such are the compromises that a "major network" drama series must make to stay afloat. For the truly insane, however, there are the true gems -- _Mad Men_, _Sons of Anarchy_, _Breaking Bad_, and others, fruits of the seamy, "cable network" underbelly.Too bad ABC canceled...but then again, certain, ahem, "people" might not appreciate having their personality types portrayed, shall we say, rather too literally on one of the (once upon a time) "big three"?
crayola58
Well, I love this show. It has the suspense I like when watching a horror/Sci fi flick or TV show. I love Terry O'Quinn from LOST days, and I've always liked Vanessa. I watched the first episode and scratched my head a million times trying to figure out who David Annabal was and then I visited IMDb (like I always do, what what I do without this site) and said "aha, he was on Brothers and Sisters". All of the characters play a great role in this show, melding in with each other in a tangled web. I am most curious about that wall that seems to swallow up the ones who default on their deal with Gavin. I love this show and I hope it continues. The script is great, love the actors, love the suspense.
