January 21, 2005
By Thomas Horn
Senior RNU Correspondent
RNU.com – (Raiders News Update) - Hey kids! Check out the cool new TV series about the devil's hot daughter! Not!
(From T.V. Guide's Review) So the Devil's daughter hangs out in South Jersey and makes people horny. I buy that. Having spent my share of weekends down the shore (as we say here on the East Coast), I've seen enough women in acid-wash throwing themselves at dudes who still think puka shells look good to know that evil grows in the Garden State's beachy regions. And don't even get me started on the Boardwalk fries. Anyway, maybe it's my soft spot for Satan's spawn - 35 years of Omen jokes here, kids - but I'm diggin' this occulty little sudser. Even if the mark of this beast isn't so much 666 as it is sex, sex, sex, there's a lot of potential here. It's like "Peyton Place Goes to Hell," with Grant Show's deputy Beelzebub hunting down and hungering for a bad seed with Carrie White's powers and Carrie Otis' lips. Plus, we get the underrated Richard Burgi, dewy lifeguards and two words that never need explanation: Dina. Meyers. Makes ya wanna sin.
From 1966 through 1967 Point Pleasant, West Virginia, became something of a national sensation when folkloric stories of a six-foot-plus winged creature dubbed "Mothman" was picked up and reported by the Associated Press. John Keel wrote a book about the supernatural encounters, and later a movie was made with the same name - The Mothman Prophecies.
In the film version of the story, director Mark Pellington avoided making definitions of what the mothy harbinger of doom was. Demon? Ghost? He never said, nor did he take time to figure out why Mothman chose sleepy little Point Pleasant to reveal itself.
Sticking to the "facts," Pellington instead led us to understand that the supernatural manifestation was simply trying to tell us something, to warn us of an impending doom, all the while proving its reliability by forecasting local calamities - such as the structural collapse of the Silver Bridge that connected Point Pleasant, West Virginia and Gallipolis - before they occurred.
Like the TV Guide reviewer at the top of this article quipped, though Christina struggles to understand (and occasionally resist) her demon, Satan never looked so good.
"The devil's daughter, appropriately enough, turns out to be hot -- albeit more in an 'OC' kind of way than the scorching fire of Hades," said Variety. "The under-35 set courted by this gothic serial probably doesn't remember 'Dark Shadows,' but 'The Omen,' 'Needful Things' and even 'Buffy' will do, as evil's presence triggers a series of soapy reactions in an otherwise-idyllic town." Matthew Gilbert of the Boston Globe actually said it better: ''Point Pleasant" is ''The Bold, the Beautiful, and Beelzebub."
Just what we needed, huh? Another in a long line of programs designed to appeal to the young and vulnerable among us, especially the young and vulnerable that also happen to be in heat. Seductive Christina, her 666-etched eyes batting, calls to them. Can't you hear her siren's song?
For my money, this HAS to be what Mothman was trying to tell us. A generation would be sold into slavery by media occultist interested in ushering in a new kind of love... and lust... for antichrist.
On the other hand, come to think of it, Mothman might have been worried about the second coming of George Bush.
Editors Note: Thanks to Lavida Medellin for alerting us to the TV Guide review.
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