The set-up is very standard - and has been since the 1980's: Yuppie parents want to get away from it all and reconnect as a family so they bring their disaffected city kids to a spooky old house in the country. The problem is Mom is hallucinating... or is she?
Courteney Cox and Greg Kinnear are both fast approaching 60 - Cox's face shows every day of it - and way too old to be playing the parents of high school kids. And after two episodes, we don't know any more about who these people are and why we should care about them than we learned from the trailer.
Frankly, I am mystified - the show is not funny, it's not scary, the characters are caricatures, and if they all get killed and eaten by the ghosts, so much the better. I walked away from the first two episodes thinking, "Well, there's two hours of my life I'll never get back again."
I rated this a 3 out of 10 because I don't want to completely torpedo it too soon. Maybe it just got off to a bad start. But I'm really not holding out much hope for this one.
Courteney Cox and Greg Kinnear are both fast approaching 60 - Cox's face shows every day of it - and way too old to be playing the parents of high school kids. And after two episodes, we don't know any more about who these people are and why we should care about them than we learned from the trailer.
Frankly, I am mystified - the show is not funny, it's not scary, the characters are caricatures, and if they all get killed and eaten by the ghosts, so much the better. I walked away from the first two episodes thinking, "Well, there's two hours of my life I'll never get back again."
I rated this a 3 out of 10 because I don't want to completely torpedo it too soon. Maybe it just got off to a bad start. But I'm really not holding out much hope for this one.