Nowhere 'Road' returns to pandering
'OCTOBER ROAD' Zero stars9:02 to 10 p.m. Thursday, then 9 to 10 p.m. Mondays on WLS-Channel 7.
November 21, 2007
BY DOUG ELFMAN Television Critic
"October Road" is on ABC, so this is what ABC thinks women want to see: a soap where the main female character's heart is caught between the barbed wire of her macho, blue-collar ex-boyfriend nicknamed Big Cat, and the tenderness of her moody author ex-boyfriend.
Contrary to the usual ABC romance novel, "October Road" mostly concerns itself with the men, not the women, so the dudes are starting a second season of yearning for love or trying to hold onto it.
A woman who hated "October Road" recently told me she wanted to see the next episode regardless because, "It's like fetish porn: hot guys drooling over fat girls."
The series resumes with Hannah (Laura Prepon) talking for an hour about the knot in her stomach caused by her love for old flame Nick (Bryan Greenberg), who briefly leaves their sleepy town ("The Ridge," Mass.) to trek to New York in search of Owen, after Owen's wife cheated on him with ... oh, seriously, who cares.
Another woman told me last season: "I know I shouldn't watch 'October Road' because it's so bad but ... I can't stop watching it!"
Lucky me. I can.
delfman@suntimes.com
November 21, 2007
BY DOUG ELFMAN Television Critic
"October Road" is on ABC, so this is what ABC thinks women want to see: a soap where the main female character's heart is caught between the barbed wire of her macho, blue-collar ex-boyfriend nicknamed Big Cat, and the tenderness of her moody author ex-boyfriend.
Contrary to the usual ABC romance novel, "October Road" mostly concerns itself with the men, not the women, so the dudes are starting a second season of yearning for love or trying to hold onto it.
A woman who hated "October Road" recently told me she wanted to see the next episode regardless because, "It's like fetish porn: hot guys drooling over fat girls."
The series resumes with Hannah (Laura Prepon) talking for an hour about the knot in her stomach caused by her love for old flame Nick (Bryan Greenberg), who briefly leaves their sleepy town ("The Ridge," Mass.) to trek to New York in search of Owen, after Owen's wife cheated on him with ... oh, seriously, who cares.
Another woman told me last season: "I know I shouldn't watch 'October Road' because it's so bad but ... I can't stop watching it!"
Lucky me. I can.
delfman@suntimes.com
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