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The Lottery (2014)
The black death virus?
Clearly the writers of the Lottery have no medical consultant on this show about medical stuff. The Black Death was caused by a bacteria (Yersinia pestis) that causes the disease, plague.
Bacteria are not viruses, and this entire show is starting to sound just as unbelievable. It is starting to look like a Twilight Saga for middle aged women. As someone else said, it is becoming an overproduced soap opera in prime time.
Bring back Helix. It is more believable. Even The Strain is better written, and with great parasites. Too many specialty channels that don't make any sense - Lifetime being one of them. If I want some reality in my "Disease and Disaster" shows, I will continue to watch The Last Ship ... I will man up with Rhona Mitra any day.
TB or not TB. That is the congestion. Consumption be done about it. Of cough, of cough. (Woody Allen)
Crossbones (2014)
Crossboring Crosseyed Zzzzz
Having watched the fantastically lyrical and entertaining and spirited and sexy Dark Sails, I was looking forward to another variation on the pirate story - this time about Blackbeard.
John Malkovich is great when he is good, but terrible when he is bad. I also saw him playing a Russian godfather in Deadly Code. His accent was so bad there as it is here, that I have a hard time taking him seriously. Is it a drama, a comedy? Mumble, mumble, mumble - sometimes an American, sometimes a bad Brit, sometimes a bad Transylvanian accent.
There is NOTHING exciting about this pilot from the start. The dialogue appears to be contrived and read off a tele-prompter. The scene jammed into each other, and typically explained to the audience as though morons.
The plot ... well ... what plot? It bounces all over the place, and there is no coherence. After watching the entire program, I felt absolutely nothing for any of the characters.
This pilot was so bad that I wanted them to kill Blackbeard, and move onto another show. But they had to save Malkovich (because someone saw the Spanish conspiring with the pirates). God help us. Blackbeard must die!!!