EUREKA | WAREHOUSE 13 | ALPHAS: TV WASTELAND: Syfy’s Alphas Bet
By Rob Vaux
July 10, 2011
Syfy has chosen this week to unleash its tsunami of summer shows: Warehouse 13, Eureka, and Haven all return with new seasons ... and the rookie Alphas tagging along for the ride. Frankly speaking, it looks like a dud. Its concept is borrowed from Heroes, The Cape and about a dozen other failed superhero shows, as a band of people with extraordinary abilities try to save the world from those who would enslave it. Or something. At this stage, television is suffering from serious comic book fatigue, and while Alphas boasts the stalwart David Strathairn as the team’s mentor/leader, that’s not nearly enough to lend it any sense of freshness or originality.
Syfy seemingly agrees by stacking the deck in the show’s favor. It opens Monday night at 10:00, with Eureka and Warehouse 13 serving as lead-ins. Will the ploy work? Hard to say. On the one hand, it will presumably leave a loyal audience based ready to keep watching. On the other hand, its late run time means that folks may head to bed if they don’t like what they see ... or worse, use their DVRs to watch the lead-ins whenever they damn well please. Still, Syfy has created unlikely hits from worse material (see Haven, premiering this Friday night), and Alphas may benefit from whatever tangential Midas touch they can produce. You can see for yourself this Monday ... and if you don’t like it, there’s plenty of other options. Let’s have a look at them [at the link above].
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