No Ordinary Family - Pilot, S01E01

Well, that was the worst premiere I've seen in a long time. I'm actually surprised that I didn't turn it off out of boredom. It wasn't exciting, it wasn't interesting, and it wasn't good television.

The premise is good: Superhero family. Who wouldn't be into that? I like superheroes. But the meandering and unfocused storyline told from the perspective of parents in couple's therapy didn't grab my attention at all. I could not care about these characters. They are supposed to be ordinary people with extraordinary powers, but that doesn't means they are supposed to be uninteresting people who discover their powers in odd, but common circumstances, and then explore them by being ridiculous.

I suppose I could say, in the shows favour, that I can imagine some schmucks responding to gaining superpowers in this way. "I'm going to try and get myself shot and experiment by trying dangerous tasks while my best friend watches." Great idea. And the friends creating secret lairs because they think it is cool, or coming up with epic descriptions of the abilities...again, this may well happen in reality if gaining superpowers was truly possible. But watching this normal behaviour was extraordinarily tedious. There is a reason that television tells stories about anything other than common and ordinary life stories. Giving uninteresting people superpowers will not make them interesting.

So it was boring, and pretty predictable, and possibly okay for younger audiences up until the lead got shot in the back of the head with a large caliber bullet. I don't know who is watching this thing, but it is not me, and I am telling you that it should not be you either.