But it has some appealing characters and it’s sufficiently tongue-in-cheek to keep you engaged. “Curfew” isn’t a reason to keep the cord intact - maybe that will be Spectrum Originals’ “Mad About You” reboot with Helen Hunt and Paul Reiser, promised for later this year. The idea is to reclaim video-on-demand from the streaming companies, turning their own original-content strategy against them as a way to persuade people to keep paying for cable. The company is pointing out that the shows are “free on-demand” - no Netflix or Hulu subscription needed - but that’s true only after you’ve paid for Spectrum cable service, which is what this whole cord-cutting thing was about in the first place. That means it can be seen only on the on-demand channels of Spectrum cable systems.
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“Curfew,” whose eight episodes premiere Monday, is the second series under the banner of Spectrum Originals (the first was the cop show “L.A.’s Finest”). It’s a genre sundae with several extra helpings of cherries, and while it’s not as wildly delightful as it sounds in outline - what could be? - it’s not a bad binge for viewers who don’t mind B-movie production values and dialogue, and who like their zombie heavy-metal shoot-em-ups grounded more in sentimental family drama than blood-spattered excess. Waiting for them on the island is the mandatory sinister American corporate type, played by Adam Brody of “The O.C.,” or perhaps just a hologram. Billy Zane, with a cowboy hat and a bottomless martini shaker, leads the crew of wannabe Merry Pranksters in the beat-up Volkswagen van. Miranda Richardson is the stressed-out mom in the big truck. Sean Bean is the angry guy in the muscle car with the much younger and pregnant girlfriend played by Rose Williams. With an evil pharmaceutical corporation lurking in the background.Īnd we haven’t even gotten to the cast. So: “28 Days Later” and “The Walking Dead” meet “Death Race” and “Mad Max,” with bits of “The Purge,” “The Terminator,” “Escape From New York” and “Children of Men” thrown in. Then it adds what you never realized a zombie story needed until now: an ultraviolent cross-country road race whose winner is to be whisked away to a peaceful island where scientists are working on a cure for the undead. (Even worse things have happened to Scotland.) It imagines a plague of fast zombies running around at night, forcing the government to institute a permanent 7 p.m. The new British series “Curfew” sounds as if it were created in an infernal lab where horror fans are strapped to gurneys and hooked up to pleasure receptors.
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