Has anyone seen Christian Slater's new TV show, My Own Worst Enemy? Judging by the ratings, I'm going to guess that your answer is, "no." Since it comes on right after Heroes, I actually have seen 2 episodes. (Incidentally, this is also how I got sucked into watching an episode of that time-traveling show with Lucius Vorenus from HBO's Rome. Please put something good on after Heroes, NBC. Just because I like superhero stuff doesn't mean I'm a gullible nerd that will swallow anything just because it's "concept entertainment.")
Anyway, much as I like Mr. Slater, he's a lone man bailing out a leaky boat in the middle of the Pacific, as far as the show goes. It actually suffers from something I'll call "premise overload." That's when the premise of the show (or episode or whatever) is so ridiculous and convoluted that you can never get past it to enjoy the the darned story. Here, Christian Slater is a spy (alright, it's been done, but can be interesting) who is part of a government program that implanted a chip in his brain to split his personality into a Spy Slater and a Regular Guy Slater. As the series starts, the switching mechanism on the split gets broken, and he finds himself erratically yo-yo-ing between the two personalities. Whew. And, of course, his Regular Guy half is unhappy to find out that he has been living a lie and everything around him is carefully orchestrated to preserve the secret.
This is way too much premise. I can't even focus on the show, because all I can think about is how this is the stupidest government program ever. Why not just let him be a spy instead of mucking around with brain implants and unstable personaility shifts and huge Truman-Show like cover lives to fool the one personality? This is the biggest waste of my imaginary tax dollars ever. I demand a pretend Congressional investigation.
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