Demons – Episode Two Review
Despite my negative review of Demons episode one I gave it another chance. Episode 2 – The Whole Enchilda by Peter Tabern – was better, but still far from good.
The pre-titles sequence was really promising, very atmospheric and nicely done. A disappearing kid and a misty graveyard are hardly original ideas but they worked.
Then the theme music began and the atmosphere was shattered.
That was pretty much the way it went. Every time the story started getting tense it was undermined by teenage soap opera and/or intrusive music.
Richard Wilson did a good job as Father Simeon, unfortunately his character – the best in the show – was mainly there to provide infoumps and plot devices. Infodumps seem to be a general problem with Demons, having the library and an all-seeing psychic must make them just too tempting.
Finally we got to the ultimate confrontation – which was a real let down. I can’t be the only one who thought “Is that it?!?” They should have cut the coda and used the extra three minutes to make the final battle something worth watching.
I come back to the word I used after the first episode: Demons is confused, it tries to do too many things at once. A writer of Joss Whedon’s calibre might be able to pull it off but Tabern’s script just ends up being a mess.