Charlie's Angels - Pilot, Angel with a Broken Wing, S01E01

What is with all the premieres this fall? Is it just me, or are a lot of them mediocre and lacking anything that will give them staying power? I suppose many people don't have the same tastes as me, but it's hard to believe that Charlie's Angels is going to get a big and faithful audience.

It was really cheesy, in that 1970s I'm reminiscing about the original Charlie's Angels but trying to make it up to date and somehow accomplishing neither kind of way. It lacked the sweetness of nostalgia while keeping silly storytelling devices that do not work anymore. And amid that campyness, it just got way more serious than I wanted to deal with when we watched one Angel be tortured.

Certainly, I was surprised when within the first 5 minutes, one of the Angels was killed in a giant explosion. A clear reminder that these women are replaceable, and hopefully an indication that the odds are going to be serious. Except that shortly after, when a man with a machine gun riddled a boat the girls were on full of bullets, not one shot so much as grazed an arm. I'm sorry, but if you dive off a boat and someone is shooting up the water, it's quite likely you will get hurt. I was disappointed that they all got away clean from that.

I also simply can't relate to these girls. They have a past that is not perfect, but they are beautiful and highly capable and not able to feel grief for very long so life is really just a big party. That's not my life, and I'm not sure why I would want to watch someone else live it.

It's possible, again, that audiences will like this show more than I did, but it simply did not have what a good show needs in 2011.