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Danny is pretty bummed about it.
And then suddenly, with all the fanfare of a Christmas miracle, Danny isnt alone anymore.
O Christmas Tree starts to play through the static on his television.
A candy cane shows up on his doorstep.
When Danny decides to climb into the car, the trap is sprung.
Danny is understandably horrified at this sudden turn of events.
This is a fine opening for a TV series.
The stakes are high.
The action is tense and unnerving.
And the audience is left with a million questions, starting with: Who is this creep?
And what is Christmasland, anyway?
(It certainly worked in the very long, very good Joe Hill novel on whichNOS4A2is based.)
The problem at least in the pilot is everything around Vic falls so flat.
We meet her less than a year from her high school graduation.
Vic is painfully aware that her situation isnt great.
Much of theNOS4A2premiere is spent heaping misery onto Vic so she can break away and discover her own superpower.
One snobby rich kid introduces himself by making a crack about alcoholic townies.
Another straight-up says Vics parents must be stupid.
With friends like these, who needs Charlie Manx?
In the premiere, Vic is still wrapping her head around her bizarre new superpower.
ButNOS4A2has a whole season to get to that.
For now, Charlie Manx is in total control.
Manx really is a vampire.
He just subsists on energy, not blood.
Its a promising cliffhanger that hints at the dark placesNOS4A2s first season might be willing to go.
At the end of the premiere,NOS4A2is one half of a very handsome, very weird horror drama.
The premiere is dedicated toJames Faz Lafazia, who worked on bothNOS4A2and Hulus Stephen King pasticheCastle Rock.
Manx teases Danny about a game hell get to play in Christmasland.
Its calledscissors-for-the-drifter.Sounds like fun!
