666 Park Avenue

I wonder how the American TV companies calculate their ratings in order to cancel a show or not. Seriously, when I see the amount of crap series that are going on and on forever and then you cancel this good show after one season, that is a thing I can't understand. This series had everything to become a hit. Good actors, a solid storyline with many twists, an intriguing plot. And then out of the blue they decide to cancel this. At least have the decency to write it off with an ending. This made me so mad, making me losing my time for one season for a story without a proper ending. Well ABC that's how you get people to boycott watching all your other shows.

Based on the pilot, I was very pleasantly surprised at the quality of this show. I would rank it very slightly behind the FX network's American Horror Story (which is quite "gritty"), but for a prime-time ABC network show, this exceeded expectations. The writing is good, suspense is built, the characters are interesting, and the acting is quite believable.

I am VERY disappointed to see reviewers complaining about this show based purely on extremist religious values. I thought that we were better than that. Free speech is wonderful, but I hate to see a show's ratings suffer because of a vocal few. I would encourage you to form your own opinion - if you are up for some scary / dramatic / and yes sometimes "seductive" content, give it a shot.

This show started out on the slow side but improved, and you can see that from the ratings. Then the writers started to writing a lot more twists to the story, and the ratings improved. The network never adverted the show, and put it at a bad time. Unfortunately seems like it is very difficult for a scripted show to survive. This show had a lot of possibilities, and would have probably gotten even better with time. Hate those reality shows. They are like watching WWF, equally fake, and ultimately boring. Would be nice if a cable network took it over, and they could make it racier. Doubt it could ever beat out American Horror Story, but maybe get close to Lost. Grimm certainly got better the 2nd season, and think it was because the show got more money, and think more money could make this show much better.

I cannot say much about it because i just saw one episode, but i have to say this: "A new series among an amount of new series...A good series! I felt almost the same atmosphere that i felt when i saw Rosemary"s baby from Polanski. A very good start, nice plot...I expect a continuing pleaseant watching...The cast seems to be good enough for the proposal, especially Terry O'Queen( i really think that he should be doing more movies, not just TV series)...So far so good...My score is 9 for now. Direction, editing, and photography are worthy of recognition. Thumbs up...I really liked it! It's clear that the series has a major Polanski's influence, and that is really great. It's rare to see something valuable nowadays(but that is just my thoughts)...Thumbs up again!

I'm writing this review after seeing just the first episode but as far as episodes go, this was more than just a pilot.

The series seems to benefit from solid writing, the pacing is perfect to keep you wondering.

Maybe the "666" in the name comes off slightly cheesy and tries too much to push the viewers towards the Faust tale but the setup is still great. The pilot steadily leads to a number of questions and possibilities all while creating a dense atmosphere that manages to clearly convey the feeling of being trapped in a game led by one man (or the devil).

Sure, the script may resemble the setup from "Devil's Advocate". Being a series however, it can afford letting some things under question. While in Devil's Advocate we had a character clearly setup as The Devil, plain and simple, here we are left wondering what's going on: is there a cult gone rogue? Is it the devil? It is a messenger or some kind of demon?

As far as the pilot goes, I was surprised to see that even if one were to summarize it, one couldn't very well simply give away spoilers because there aren't any to give. Who's who? Who wants what? Who does what? These are questions left to be answered.

Shortcomings? Sure, we could name a few. Aside from a few main characters, the cast is questionable. Perhaps they just need time to grow but I can still think of many debutants in series that have done way better jobs.

The camera was chaotic at times without any real reason.

Final word? The story is catchy, dense and full of suspense. It has the prospects of giving a fair amount of chills if properly developed and I am definitely going to follow it.

It's not entirely a 10/10, maybe more like 8/10, but I'm stepping it up as the recent releases have been incredibly low, such as the cheap teen flick Revolution which can make anything else look amazing.