Happy Happy, Joy Joy

It's unsurprising that as the series progresses, Happy Town is indeed getting better.  I thought last week's episode was a little bit like treading water, but this week was certainly firing on all cylinders.  Shame that the show's been cancelled (what possesses them to essentially cancel it after only airing the two parts of the pilot?)

All Out of Happy

Yes, I realise that the series has been cancelled and I'm a little saddened by it.  I can't say that I'm surprised, though, since the series is rather quirky, which doesn't necessarily seem to go over well with typical American audiences.  This week's episode continues on with more of the same, plus random sex and an out-of-left-field appearance by David Cronenberg.  That kind of elevates the show to awesome, which is of course why it needs to be cancelled.

So Happy You Could Cry

Well, I hate to say it, but I don't think that Happy Town is going to last much longer than its initial batch of episodes.  Despite having its strongest character (MC Gainey's Sheriff) unconscious for the episode, I still kind of liked it, but I do think that it's being too quirky for its own good.  The mystery of the intial murderer is solved in a fairly unusual fashion, so it gets points there, but at this stage in the game, everything's still so fresh that we don't necessarily have any baseline to be shocked by any events.  Everything in Haplin seems off kilter, so there isn't any sort of "normal" grounding.

C'Mon Get Happy

I watched the first episode of Happy Town.  It's too early to really say much, this episode really was just an introduction of characters, basic premise and setting, but it did a decent job.  MC Gainey is great as Sherriff Conroy, but he's really the only one whose individual performance stands out.  The group of catty widows and their landlady were interesting, emphasizing the oddball characters bit.  At some points, it feels like it's trying too hard for the Twin Peaks by way of Stephen-King-made-for-TV-mini-series tone, but we'll see how it turns out.