What better to occupy my 10-11pm hour on the Thursday before a Friday off from work then the potentially horrible but still quite intriguing Comedy Central premiere of a fantasy-comedy series? Not much! The full title for the show is Krod Mandoon and the Flaming Sword of Fire, and it will be showing for at least a few half-hour episodes on Thursday nights at 10pm. I have to say from the hour long premiere, I actually hope this show keeps going for at least a full first season to see what they can do with the concept.
Don’t get me wrong, this isn’t a brilliant piece of television such as Lost or The Office, but it pretty much accomplishes everything that it sets out to do. It’s reasonably funny, and seems to avoid the first blunder that many fantasy-comedies fall to which is incredibly predictable humor, but the first hour also didn’t have any fall-out-of-your-seat hilarious moments. What I found more surprising was that there weren’t many moments where it painfully ripped you out of the fantasy setting either, so I think it pretty successfully dances the razor thin line that the fantasy-comedy genre lives on. It also didn’t have any of the huge red flags that usually show up, none of the costuming, make up, and special effects were atrocious or intentionally bad.
The biggest problem with Krod Mandoon is that nothing was stellar, I’m not really comfortable telling you that the show was fantastic, or that the acting was great because it wasn’t. However, the acting also wasn’t bad, and while nothing was super funny there were some more subtle hints to the writing and less obvious jokes that I find myself wanting to watch more of the show. Many of you probably hadn’t even heard of the show, or if you did see previews for it you may have written it off right away, so hopefully you give it a shot and you might even be surprised!
Plus, you can help me bet on how high the percentage of popularity increase will get on India de Beaufort‘s IMDB page! It’s up 279% this week, any guesses on how high that will go?
