“There’s no such thing as love” — so says Satan, anyway
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- November
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Another week, another great Reaper.
With Tuesday night being election night, I didn’t get to catch up with our favorite bounty hunter for Satan until last night.
My line of the night, uttered — of course — by Ray Wise:
In the end, it all comes down to endorphins and genitalia.
What was he talking about? Why, my friends, he was talking about love and lust. Love, he explained to Sam, does not exist. Lust is real. Love is not.
Of course (spoiler alert if you didn’t watch it yet!), we realize by show’s end that Beelzebub must have gotten burned once by love. Sam asks him why he doesn’t believe in love and the Devil doesn’t answer. After Sam leaves, the Dark Lord changes the song on the jukebox to some lovelorn ballad and he sits down at the bar, looking rather forlorn.
I so totally hope we come back to that at some point. Have I mentioned how fantastic Ray Wise is as Satan?
Anyhow, I thought the Andi/Sam storyline was a bit better this week than it’s been. They seem to be headed in the right direction, finally. I think they’ve hit a stride, instead of spending the entire episode on the whole, “I love Andi, but she doesn’t love me”/”I love Sam but he doesn’t love me” idiocy.
I must have laughed out loud at least a half-dozen times over the course of the episode, and Bert “Sock” Wysocki is definitely part of the reason. Tyler Labine is completely the Jack Black of television, and I mean that in a much more complimentary fashion than when I said Matthew Laurence was the Steve Guttenberg of television.
And how could you not love the cameo by Curtis Armstrong, who so memorably played “Booger” in the Revenge of the Nerds movies? He was perfect as the drug-addled, muscle car-loving, loser who works at the Work Bench. Of course he had a Beta player at home (and by that I mean the videocassette type that rivaled VHS way back in the 1970s, not some test version of something). I have a feeling we’ll be seeing him again—hopefully soon.
Meanwhile, Bret Harrison, who plays Sam, gave an interview to BuddyTV.com and mentioned that Sam just might make a visit to Hell one day.
Here’s what he had to say:
We’ve all talked about it. It just depends. This is one of those shows where you pray that it will go for a couple seasons. If it does, and you let things just happen, the places that these shows can go [are] beyond anything I can think of. It’s not your standard family sitcom.
And a wee bit of news: Ausiello over at TVGuide.com reports that Jamie Kennedy has signed on to guest star as a street performer whom the Devil “is tempting with a record deal.”
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