Shame on you Dan Curtis! Don't you realize what made the original "The Night Stalker" movies and series such a classic was the wonderful interplay between Kolchak (Darrin McGavin) and his boss (Simon Oakland)? Kolchak and Vicenzo were colorful, if not downright cliché newspaper people. Instead, you give us Stuart Townsend, who's about as colorful as beige. You turn the focus on the show into sexual tension between Townsend and Gabrielle Union. Union, who is one of the most beautiful, bright and charismatic Hollywood actresses, gets to play straight man to a "straight man". If you were going to go for the "Muldar/Scully angle, you could have at least given us an ironically funny male lead. Instead, this series is starting off as a rejected "X Files" episode.
"Night Stalker" needs, at least, a quirky Kolchak, say, Matthew Lillard or David Schwimmer. Look at the great success of "Doctor Who" and go back to the drawing board.
I give the "Night Stalker" pilot a "5".
"Night Stalker" needs, at least, a quirky Kolchak, say, Matthew Lillard or David Schwimmer. Look at the great success of "Doctor Who" and go back to the drawing board.
I give the "Night Stalker" pilot a "5".