We tend to go for the melodramatic, the wannabee hipsteresque and anything with Laura Prepon but we’re just not sure about ABC’s new drama october road. The anachronistic selection of music in the form of Boston’s Don’t Look Back and REO Speedwagon’s Take it on the Run, tries way too hard, and strangely so, to define the period of time between the main character’s leaving town and his return a mere ten years later.
If, as the main character in this series did, wrote a book that so maligned his hometown friends, why would he return? Oh wait. This is TV. This is conflict and conflict is a key ingredient in drama. Too bad it comes off like a 13 year old whining to their parents because they won’t allow the kid to spend yet another hour mindlessly IMing senseless missives.
Oh, and that last line of the episode, “the way I see it, this thing’s in diapers,” has to be the lamest attempt at creating a catch phrase since Lacey Chabert tried to make “fetch” work in Mean Girls.
