“Viva Laughlin” on CBS may well be the worst new show of the season, but is it the worst show in the history of television?
It certainly comes close in a category that includes “Beverly Hills Buntz” in 1987 (Dennis Franz in a short-lived spinoff of “Hill Street Blues”), the self-explanatory “Manimal” in 1983 or last year’s one-episode wonder, “Emily’s Reasons Why Not.” “Viva Laughlin” is not even in the same league as “Cop Rock,” a 1990 experimental series created by Steven Bochco that leavened a gritty police drama with Broadway musical moments: cops and criminals breaking into song and dance. “Viva Laughlin” also features musical outbursts and is far worse.
It may be just me, but I don’t think she liked the show. Read it all.
I kinda liked “Cop Rock.” 🙂
The drug addict singing that wonderful lullaby just before she sold her baby was one of most memorable scenes I have ever seen on TV.
carl