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  • THE NIGHT RETURNS: But will the new Hitchcock or laughing stock show up?

    THE NIGHT RETURNS: But will the new Hitchcock or laughing stock show up?

    M NIGHT SHYAMALAN is back with a ten episode miniseries set to air tonight, THURSDAY at 9pm edt..

    The long anticipated program, WAYWARD PINES, is promising typical plot twists in the M NIGHT style.. But the question will now be: Will viewers appreciate it after all of the duds that people have attributed to the Shyamalan name..?

    Matt Dillon stars as a Secret Service agent who arrives in a tiny, picturesque Idaho town (that could be called Creepyville, USA) to investigate a case, but learns he can’t leave. No one can. If people try to escape, it can deadly..

    Cast members also include Terrence Howard, Melissa Leo, Toby Jones and Juliette Lewis. Shyamalan said that after casting Dillon, it was Leo’s role that helped shape his vision of the series.

    The UK GUARDIAN took the chance to profile Shyalaman as he leaps from movies to television (but back to movies this fall with the VISIT)..  The report points out that the director went to a celebrated new version of Hitchcock to a laughing stock..  Which version shows up for WAYWARD is yet to be seen–but even more interesting will be the ratings game.

    The NIGHT brand has been acclaimed before it turned lame. Movies like SIXTH SENSE were forgotten by the time THE HAPPENING didn’t happen–ironically the bee collapse is in the news today. Maybe we should have listened closer in 2008.. Regardless, Night is coming back this fall with THE VISIT. The trailer for that movie about people going to their grandparents house in Pennsylvania has already become the butt of jokes.. 
    WAYWARD PINES seems immune to such unkind words. As a matter of fact, the reviews appear to be mostly positive–helped more by Matt Dillon as an actor than M Night as a creator..
    But time will tell how WAYWARD these pines get.

    10 episodes begins tonight..
    Will you stay for all of them?
  • How wayward are the Pines?

    How wayward are the Pines?

    TWITTER and all things entertainment exploded a bit today with a surge of news about a director who made his star shine bright at the end of the last century: M Night Shyamalan.. His newest conquest is not over movie theaters or strange SIFI ‘documentaries’ but instead prime time television..

    Shyalaman’s bringing WAYWARD PINES to FOX.. and with it comes a strange and elusive trailer for the show.. Matt Dillon stars in the show. And quite obviously the trailer, as well.

    It speaks for itself:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o51W3_QyXGM

    The official description:

    Imagine the perfect American town, beautiful homes, manicured lawns, children playing safely in the streets…Now imagine never being able to leave. You have no communication with the outside world. You think you’re going insane. You must be in Wayward Pines.

    For those who don’t know much about this soon-to-be hit series (I predict) it’s based on a novel by Blake Crouch and the series, with M Night Shymalan shepherding it, will feature Matt Dillon as a secret service agent on a mission to find missing federal agents..

    The immediate and overwhelming reaction online has been critical of Shyamalan but receptive of the trailer for the May 14th premiere of the show..  even the description on the trailer poster deeming this an ‘Shyamalan event’ rather than a ‘series’ has some scoffing.

    Shyamalan has had a series of love-hate relationships with fans after several of his movies were criticized as stinkers following after the hit SIXTH SENSE..  while  some lament the fall of his star, I still believe SIGNS and even LADY IN THE WATER had appeal..

    It remains to be seen how many fans, or former fans, go into the journey to WAYWARD PINES..
    But for me, it can’t be any worse than UNDER THE DOME.
    Or could it!?