I'm a pretty big fan of Bryan Fuller, who gave us Wonderfalls and Pushing Daisies. I say "pretty" big because I couldn't really get into Dead Like Me, but still, I was excited when I heard he had created a TV pilot based on The Munsters. I wasn't excited because it was the Munsters - I'm more an Addams Family kind of guy, I just thought Fuller was likely to do something really cool.
I was wrong.
Mockingbird Lane lands uncomfortably somewhere between mild comedy and mild horror. The result is a little weird. The creepiness of the show could work in a full-on horror movie or a really dark comedy, but here it just seems a little unpleasant. Grandpa's jibes at Marilyn were kind of amusing but they didn't make sense either in the context of the show nor in the context of the original Munsters.
Some people were upset that the network chose not to pick up the series, but honestly, I don't think I would even have given it a second chance if it had made it.
I was wrong.
Mockingbird Lane lands uncomfortably somewhere between mild comedy and mild horror. The result is a little weird. The creepiness of the show could work in a full-on horror movie or a really dark comedy, but here it just seems a little unpleasant. Grandpa's jibes at Marilyn were kind of amusing but they didn't make sense either in the context of the show nor in the context of the original Munsters.
Some people were upset that the network chose not to pick up the series, but honestly, I don't think I would even have given it a second chance if it had made it.