Third season FK is so brutal to the heart of the FK I love best...
FK always wanted to be sexy, edgy, late-night fare. But first season delivered that edge, for example, in the female-subject "If Looks Could Kill" while third season sunk to the female-object "Trophy Girl."
Third season tumbled so far from the rich first season writing, the fullness of its entwined threads, the depth of its shifting metaphors. I feel that first season FK can still stand proudly up the the best of even today's TV offerings; it's that good. But third season was embarrassing even as it aired in '95-'96.
I imagine that when the USA network ordered that Nick must have a young, attractive, female partner, the crew was initially baffled as to what to do with her. That wasn't the show's template. By the time they figured out that, given the choice to let her know about vampires, and the set-up with her father, they had to parallel her with Nick (instead of standing opposite, as Schanke had stood)... cancellation had been announced.
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FK always wanted to be sexy, edgy, late-night fare. But first season delivered that edge, for example, in the female-subject "If Looks Could Kill" while third season sunk to the female-object "Trophy Girl."
Third season tumbled so far from the rich first season writing, the fullness of its entwined threads, the depth of its shifting metaphors. I feel that first season FK can still stand proudly up the the best of even today's TV offerings; it's that good. But third season was embarrassing even as it aired in '95-'96.
I imagine that when the USA network ordered that Nick must have a young, attractive, female partner, the crew was initially baffled as to what to do with her. That wasn't the show's template. By the time they figured out that, given the choice to let her know about vampires, and the set-up with her father, they had to parallel her with Nick (instead of standing opposite, as Schanke had stood)... cancellation had been announced.
SIGH.