http://www.criticsrant.com/archive/2007/10/01/MOONLIGHT----No-Such-Thing-As-Vampires.aspx Every freak job in the world ends up in Los Angeles, if you believe network TV. Aliens, monsters and big-ass robots come to the City of Angels for fun and sun, and usually, they set up shop. Apparently, L.A. is also the place to be for those with entrepreneurial spirit. Among those with such spirit is Mick St. John (Alex O’Loughlin), a handsome rake with a private investigator’s license, a beautiful bachelor pad, and a taste for A-positive. Our friend Mick is, yes, a vampire 90 years young, in what has become something of a new tradition in the genre: undead detectives.  His latest case gets him in touch with Beth Turner (Sophia Myles), a lovely young reporter for a news (I use the term loosely) Web site, who teams up with Mick to look into the death of a college student involved with a freaky-deaky anthropology professor (Rudolf Martin, who’s played Dracula once or twice himself). I could give more details of the plot, but that might be going to the rehash trough one too many times. I liked this show when it was FOREVER KNIGHT, and I liked it even better when it was ANGEL, but the mix is a little thin by now. Storywise, you’ve got to be able to bring something new to the table when working with such well-used tropes, and frankly, CBS is not the first place that pops into the conscious mind when thinking of innovative writing and interesting stories. There are a few new wrinkles in terms of the mythology—the undead aren’t flammable in sunlight, they can sense the past through smell (that’s a good one), stakes don’t seal the deal when it comes to killing the fanged set—but the basic approach seems unaltered. Vampires hiding out from humanity, a loose organization of the undead, one good vampire afraid to love, blah blah blah. en-US Critics Rant info@criticsrant.com Subtext Version 1.9.4.0 http://www.criticsrant.com/images/default_gravatar_bullhorn.png http://www.criticsrant.com/archive/2007/10/01/MOONLIGHT----No-Such-Thing-As-Vampires.aspx 77 60 http://www.criticsrant.com/archive/2007/10/01/MOONLIGHT----No-Such-Thing-As-Vampires.aspx#1587 Yeah, I liked this show better when it was called Angel too. And wasn't this show created by one of the exec. producers of Angel? What happened to him? I think I'll save myself the time and just watch reruns of Angel on DVD. Fabfish http://www.criticsrant.com/archive/2007/10/01/MOONLIGHT----No-Such-Thing-As-Vampires.aspx#1587 Mon, 01 Oct 2007 20:51:38 GMT