I confess that I was intrigued by the original Life After People special. Then I watched it. Unspeakably lame. But, as Lowry points out, it was the History Channel's most-watched program, so of course the network execs would be stupid not to keep churning out more of it for audiences."Welcome to Earth. Population: zero," the narrator says at the outset.
Faced with the option of sitting through subsequent hours of "Life After People," the same description could apply to my living room.
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
brian lowry on life after people: the series
Seriously, this may need to become a regular feature -- Lowry is a zinger machine. Here's part of his review of Life After People: The Series: