Glory Days
Glory Days
TV-14 | 16 January 2002 (USA)
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    Exoticalot People are voting emotionally.
    KnotStronger This is a must-see and one of the best documentaries - and films - of this year.
    Payno I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.
    Staci Frederick Blistering performances.
    BlackholeTraveller I watched this show on TV, it was okay then, now I'm re-watching my DVD set and have to tell you that this show has done it all wrong. Kevin Williamson did a fantastic job developing "Dawson's Creek", he originally intended to write this show as a drama, but the network (The WB) wanted to have a boring murder of the week show, so they got one, and I'm happy that it lasted only for 9 episodes. Let's start with the positive aspects: I like the cast, the actors do their best I think, they could do better, but those crappy scripts prevent them from having much to do. Every episode is a stand alone complex, what happens is forgotten next episode. The characters are interesting, they could be better, but what should they do if 90 % of every episodes revolves around a boring Case of the Week, when again a person is murdered or a freak shows up? There are almost no character moments or development, the best we get is a boring subplot about Zane or Sara dating some person that is gone by the end of the episode. And it's totally unbelievable how often the main characters are involved in the crimes, Sam gets kidnapped, Rudy gets locked up for killing a woman he had a date with, the pattern is always the same: We have a crime in the beginning, then Rudy and of course Mike, who can't sit still, who has to be a bit or sometimes a bit more annoying to find out what's going on, try to figure out who did it. There's always a first person, then a 2nd candidate and it's always the last person (or almost always) who is the criminal in the end - 4 of the first 6 episodes ended with the bad guy pointing a gun at some of the good guys - dear writers, that's soooo boring! I only bought the DVD set for good money (9 episodes for like 40 bucks is expensive) because I'm a huge Emily VanCamp fan, she had her first television role and I really like her character Sam, she's cute, sassy, an interesting character, let's not talk about the fact that almost all her scenes are with her maybe BF Zane. I'm thankful to Kevin Williamson for putting her on the show, because she got the awesome role of Amy Abbott in Everwood immediately when Glory Days was canceled, but this show is really boring, it's more fun to watch CSI something something (and I hate those shows) then a crime show with drama that tries way to hard, but the results are boring and sometimes even stupid. The setting of Glory is really nice, it could've been better, if it had been a drama.
    notstudyinglaw Like everyone else it seems, I was looking forward to this show. But, I hate to say it; it is just plain old bad dumb TV. Bad plots, bad dialogue, bad production values. Sad, sad, sad. For some reason I thought that the name "Kevin Williamson" would indicate some level of quality. Then I looked back at Williamson's filmography- is he really all that? The Scream series is brilliant and witty, and Dawson's had moments. But beyond that, when you add Glory Days to the pile, his inane juvenile panderings are seriously starting to outweigh his insightful fresh offerings. Yes, Glory Days has been cancelled. It did have potential- I'll admit I watched beyond the dreadful premiere. But it never seemed to realize that potential was not enough. In order to succeed and satisfy, it desperately needed to honestly evaluate what works and what doesn't from the genres it was drawing on. Perhaps if they had left behind the unbelievable soap-opera-ish set-ups, which are the annoying hallmark of suspense shows directed at the older set, including Murder She Wrote and Diagnosis Murder, I could have swallowed it? After all, it ain't the gray hair that keeps me away from those shows, it is the endless parade of Scooby-Doo like "mysteries." Yes, the amusement park owner, or the new boyfriend, or any number of stock "killers" really DID do it. Did the fun twists of Scream wear Williamson out? Or what if they'd tried harder to make us care about the main characters, as Williamson was somehow able to do in Dawson's? I fully acknowledge that Williamson is no Whedon, so I knew better than to expect anything actually thought provoking. But even slightly believable, or engaging, or entertaining, could have kept this show afloat. Good Riddance. But here's to hoping the WB will try its hand at the genre again.
    ehosh2494 I was excited to hear that the WB was airing this new, creative series created by Kevin Williamson, and I have seen the majority of the episodes and I am absolutely hooked on this show, it's incredible! The setting is a small island town called Glory and the main character is a writer named Mike who along with the town sheriff, Rudy, and the medical examiner, Ellie, attempts to solve eerie mysteries dealing with murders, kidnappings, supernatural occurrences and other strange events which plague the town. This show is scary, fun and I really like the characters because there is always something interesting going on between them. I am hoping this show gets picked up again because only about 10 episodes have aired, as some sort of mid-season replacement I guess, and I have not heard whether or not it is being picked up again. Hopefully it will be, this is a promising new show that is very enjoyable and fun to watch every week, I know I always look forward to new episodes.
    virtualstranger The premise of "Glory Days," an actual suspense- thriller television show, was one that I'm sure filled many people with hope and interest. What they've seen, over the past three weeks, has probably crushed those hopes fairly effectively....In the first episode, we are given several creepy elements; a seemingly random murder, a mysterious letter, an entire town where we're told odd behavior is commonplace, with a population who strongly dislike the returning prodigal son (some of whom are his own family), and a disturbingly- designed board game, just to name a few. Any one of these elements, handled correctly, could carry a show for several episodes. "Glory Days" disposes of them all by the end of the very first episode, explaining away every element in precise detail, wrapping up every possible loose end.This pattern, alas, was repeated with the second and third episodes as well. Each individual story sewn up nice and tight, with nothing left to gnaw at our minds or make us wonder at work the next day. Each episode ends exactly as it began, with only superficial changes to the characters lives, and no change at all to the world they live in.Answering every question mere minutes after it's asked hardly builds suspense, and a mystery that's solved in less than an hour isn't much of a mystery. The most effective element of mystery and suspense, the part that gets people hooked, is not knowing, not having the answers. To paraphrase Neil Gaiman, people forget the stories, but they always remember the mysteries.There are no mysteries on Glory Island. Simply put, instead of stepping into the shoes of "Twin Peaks" or "The X-Files," or possibly bringing something new to the small- screen, "Glory Days" is merely a hip, teen- oriented version of "Matlock" or "Murder She Wrote"A shame, because the cast, and the audience, all deserve something better....