 Thanks for checking out this show review video So this is for the 2003 TV series tremors that originally was done for the sci-fi channel back then And then it had a second run on g4 one of the interesting things is though when it was originally run on the sci-fi channel They actually accidentally actually I don't even know if it was accidental I assume it is they ran the episodes out of order and then when they was rerun on the g4 channel Which are IPg4 because I like that channel They put it in the correct order. So it is in the correct order available on YouTube at the moment totally for free just search tremors There's actually a tremors channel on YouTube and it has all the episodes of this 2003 TV series And I will say that if you're a fan of the tremors films if you like kind of the tremor Tremors world and even if you just like Bert Gummer, I would highly recommend this show. Yes. It's kind of cheesy It's a 2003 show made for sci-fi. Just know that you know for with that time period You know CGI was being used and it didn't look so good and it certainly doesn't hold up well now But it's not all CG. They do have some practical effects in it and that's kind of important to you know not make it look totally terrible, but Just think about all the shows that kind of came out around that time, especially ones for sci-fi like it's kind of cheesy It's kind of corny The dialogue is not the best the acting certainly is not the best although, you know, Michael gross is Bert Gummer is Michael gross is Bert Gummer. I mean, he's he's a joy to watch to be honest, but I think at the heart of it There's a good story continuation going on there But I don't want to talk too much about that right now because I'm gonna go through it in a kind of more systematic way But I'm just saying all this to say if you're a tremors fan Definitely check it out if you even like I wouldn't say it's necessarily for people who just like the first tremors But if anyone's gone past that if you like tremors one two and three Certainly do that if you didn't like four and after then I would still recommend the TV series for you because Well, I'll talk about that in a second But there were really won't be spoilers for this because it's too hard for me and do spoilers for show reviews Because I'd have to kind of go like episode by episode or have one video That's just like an hour long which isn't worth doing. So anyway the writing credits are for Christopher Silber Who's actually done a bunch of episodes of like CSI, New York NCIS and NCIS New Orleans. So did a lot of TV show things Babs Grey-Hoskey who did episodes of Magnum PI the a team which I watch the a team all the time I love that the greatest American hero, which everyone knows the theme song for that and Swamp Thing which was a good show back in the day and John Julian who wrote episodes for Miami Vice? Hercules Jag and Xena warrior princess Which if you if you remember like Hercules and Xena warrior princess It's the same kind of look same kind of feel for the show to be honest Like just think that time period and then Steven D. Bender who also wrote episodes for NCIS So that's kind of your background on who the writers were for it So this series actually came out after Tremors 3 back to perfection and it was produced at the same time They were doing Tremors 4 The legend begins which Tremors 4 in my opinion is probably the worst of all the Tremors films. So Yeah, but and honestly like Tremors 4, I don't even think it matters If you watch that because it's like this kind of really stupid backstory that you just don't even really need So you can kind of just skip that and I went on honestly say just skip six I have in-depth reviews on all of the Tremors movies on my channel Just so you know and this TV show one is just to kind of cap it all off Brent Maddock and SS Wilson They had written the script the script for a bunch of the show episodes way back like in 1993 But it ended up not happening So they had this idea a long time before that like 10 10 years earlier and it just never took off So when it finally did They ended up recycling a bunch of the material from these original scripts And then these new writers kind of took that original material that was intended for a series and just kind of turned it Into something more for that time period, I guess So I think it's good because it has some good tie-ins To the the first three movies for that reason because of you know kind of recycling stuff from Maddock and Wilson So that's you can you can tell that when you know it and then you're watching the show In 2017 sci-fi ordered a pilot this pisses me off by the way not like really You know it just it makes me sad kind of in 2017 sci-fi ordered a pilot for a new series With Kevin Bacon in it. Yes, a new Tremor series with Kevin Bacon Obviously it didn't happen Vincenzo Natali was supposed to be directing. Okay, Vincenzo Natali who did like cube and splice Natali and Kevin Bacon Tremor series it would have been great then in 2018 Kevin Bacon announced that the network decided not to move forward with the show sci-fi What are you doing? You put the 2003 Tremor series on TV. You can certainly do another one with Kevin Bacon because Here's the thing. This is why I'm sad about this. I've watched all the Tremors movies I watched this series the only thing missing overall story-wise for all the Tremor stuff is What happened with Val? There's no follow-up after the first Tremors movie of what happened with Val. I Assumed that's what we were gonna get with another series And I feel like that would have been so nice not just because it's more Tremors entertainment, but they could have really Filled in all the gaps and kind of put a neat bow on the story Just saying I then that makes me sad I know I'm getting a little too wrapped up in this but it when you watch all the Tremors movies and the TV show You get immersed. I'm just saying The Graboids traveling through the ground in this is done in CG. Just know that it looks terrible They do like a little bit of underground of them going through but the worst of it is You know how in the original movie you'd like see the hump of the Graboid underground and they did that with practical effects So it looked good. Well, they do that with CG in the show and it looks awful. It looks really bad It's very laughable. A lot of CG is very very laughable. It's terrible But if that doesn't bother you or if you like that because you can laugh at it, then You're gonna be fine with this because that's the worst part. That's the thing that would might take you out of this most That and you know some of the acting but But they do do practical effects for a bunch of the Graboid type creatures, so that's good It does pick up right after Tremors 3 with Melvin trying to you know move into perfection with Some development stuff. There's a little bit dealt with that throughout the series But not as much as I would assume going into it. They were gonna do Someone shows up to pick up at the Graboid tourist business Which I like that aspect of it because we got that in the third one where they're kind of like Oh, we're gonna you know adapt to the Graboids being here specifically Alblanco in the end and You know, we're gonna we're gonna make money at this like it's it's a thing like people know about Graboids We're gonna merchandise all the stuff and we're gonna have these tours And this is how we're gonna bring money into perfection And that's kind of a lot of what happens with the show is it's really like a day-to-day of those people living in Perfection and how they're dealing and one of the big things is they're dealing with living with Alblanco that that white Graboid that's relatively passive for a Graboid In the show and so it's just interesting to see kind of how like they build their lives around this one Graboid and then there's a bunch of other, you know crazy stuff that ends up happening obviously But it's not all Graboid related although it is like nature related I'll talk a little bit more about that in a minute, but I don't know It's just interesting especially if you're into the tremors universe to just see the day-to-day at this at the in the town the interactions between the characters are where I think the dialogue and the scripts really shine because Like you feel the relationships between them and that's what I like most like those are they feel like real relationships They're well fleshed out. There's good comedy to it in my opinion, and it's just enjoyable It's light and it's fun and it's truly one of those shows that you know If you're doing something you can just throw it on in the background and you don't have to fully pay attention But you're hearing all the dialogue so you really you know what's going on for the most part Yeah, so Bert is typical Bert in this which is pretty much what matters the most. He's not in every single episode I think he doesn't show up in one one or two episodes actually actually two the last two episodes He doesn't even show up at all which is weird They have an explanation for that. So I wonder if maybe Michael Gross like just wasn't available or I don't know what happened there That that's an interesting thing. I just thought of but yeah, he's in all the episodes until the last two and Probably not a coincidence the last two are maybe the weakest the the last episode by far is the weakest of all the episodes Which kind of sucks and there's 13 episodes by the way So there's plenty to watch and they're you know, they were made hour long for TV. So available on YouTube They're like 42 minutes ish because they don't have commercials obviously So yeah, but Bert when Bert's in it Bert's typical Bert and that's very endearing. That's what a lot of people look for So because it's made for TV, there's some things that look bad like the CG dust in particular There's like CG dust in it. I'm like, why would you do that? Just use real dust because the CG looks terrible and Shaking cameras to simulate shaking ground like it's one of those things you can tell for sure kind of like the old school Star Trek where they just like shake the camera. Everyone's like, oh You know what I mean? So You know corny things Dean Norris is in this as a government agent, which is great and there's there's a lot of good back and forth with his character Twichel I think is his name. Yeah, his name is twitch on it his character and the people in the town because they don't really like dealing with him But for the fact that he keeps showing up because of the government's involvement with the town because of the Graboids He kind of becomes a part of the town in a sense and they eventually kind of like accept him as part of the town But they also still have this bit of a contentiousness with them. So there's a lot of you know good back-and-forth banter The second episode really does pick up and the Introducing of someone that you think can kind of be like Burt was it was an interesting Aspect to it. I mean, there are a lot of interesting story aspects that they throw in here And it sometimes it seems like it's a little bit x-files inspired now I don't want to say that to mislead people. It's not like the x-files x-files is way different way better written way better done So don't think that but there's there's some kind of like x-files Inspired elements to the show I will say and you'll see what I mean if you watch it a Character named Tyler is in the nude is the new Jack from Tremors 3 back to perfection Just so you know, he's the guy who kind of comes in and he takes over Jack's Tourist business to like show Graboids. So I like that aspect of it He it be in the beginning. I was like acting wise is not that great But he actually does get better as the time goes on So I started to actually kind of enjoy that character There's a typical corny style of TV music from this time period and that is definitely what's going on in this series So if you think like again think back to that time period those types of shows, you know Hercules, you know warrior princess stuff like that Think about what that music was like. It's Yeah, it's corny. It's not great like the mute mute, you know the CG the music stuff like that They just don't hold up. They just don't so when you're watching it. You have to remember it was that time period The tourist aspect of the town is probably one of the most fun things about it and Burt's Survivalist stuff is a lot of fun too because he's still doing that in this show And that you know adds more comedy to it. It adds more kind of adventure and fun to it There's a plot point about halfway through that really ups the ante On what's going on and opens possibilities for a bunch of other problems that happen So for that reason, honestly, I really would have liked to see more than just one season of this I think they had plenty of places. They could have gone because you think about it and you're going into it You're just like how are you gonna do 13 episodes of you know Graboids shriekers and ass blasters and they don't you know They throw something else into the mix and it doesn't feel out of place. It feels like it definitely fits It kind of expands the universe of tremors and it expands the problems of per of the town of perfection That you know would set it up for doing many seasons of a show like this and I'm just sad we didn't get more of it. I Guess I'm part of the problem of why that didn't happen because I didn't watch it back then I'm watching it way later So Al Blanco is somewhat of a character in this and I think that's a very fun element too So, you know, you're you're seeing all these interactions with the people in the town But then Al Blanco almost feels like they're one of the people You know Al Blanco is almost one of the people in in a way because a lot of things are kind of built around that Since it's about the day-to-day imperfection It ends up becoming somewhat a somewhat over-the-top story about human resilience in the face of nature, but also Nature that's meddled with by human beings, you know, it's hard enough for humans to deal with The harsh the harshness of nature whether it be creatures or natural disasters or things like that But it's even tougher when humans get involved and they somehow mess with that environment They mess with that nature and make it worse and that's something that's kind of at play in here So it was hard enough when just Graboids and Shriekers and ass blasters show up Which you know, it's kind of like that's what they do with the movies You know in the beginning It's just the Graboids and that's tough to deal with and then it changes in the next movie to Shriekers too And that's even tougher to deal with and then it in the third movie It's ass blasters then that's even tougher to deal with and I feel like with the show They continue to build on that and they add even more and there's even more to deal with so it just keeps you know It keeps with the movies. It really does Yeah, and like I said the final episode really does fall flat It was pretty boring definitely the worst of most boring of all of them but you know and The last thing I kind of want to say about the show is that the actors that there were there a few cam like cameo actors in it And two of them in particular I was pretty excited about I'll just tease this right now because this might get you to watch it There is one episode where Michael Rooker is in it. I like Michael Rooker I think he does a great job and he's fun in this and then there are a few episodes with Christopher Lloyd So if you like Christopher Lloyd He plays the same type of character as from back to the future to be honest doc Brown So if you like that you might want to check it out just for that and like I said it I think he's in he's definitely in two episodes. Maybe three I can't remember because they're all kind of running together in my head, but yeah anyway, so yeah It it's hard for me to rate this just because like I liked it a lot But I also know that it's not that great at the same time. So I'm gonna give it kind of two ratings I think most people would watch it and maybe rate it somewhere around like a two But me watching it, I think it's really in my opinion more like a three three and a half So just to be the most fair, I'm gonna say a three my official rating will be three out of five stars for it But I think a lot of people might put it more towards the two. I think this deserves a lot more eyes I don't hear people talk about it ever, but I think it's worth it Also, if people are interested if you don't want to watch it on YouTube But you want to watch it and you don't want to you don't mind spending a little bit of money I found the series available on DVD through Best Buy's website And it's like 15 bucks or something. So I Don't know maybe inspiring some people I'm actually thinking about buying it because it was a good time. But anyway Put your comments down there, especially people who have watched all the Tremors movies And especially if you watch this TV show, I would love to talk to people about it I've been deep in this tremors world and it's it's been a lot of fun to be honest So anyway, put some comments down there Whatever you want to talk about do me a quick favor though hit that like hit the like but mainly hit the subscribe button because the majority of The views I get on videos are from non subscribers and it would really help out if it's from subscribers So hit that subscribe and it's it's totally quick and painless doesn't mean anything to you But means a lot for my channel. 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