Pop Culture Curmudgeon

The Deep End Was an Atrocious Waste of My Time

I made it through 17 minutes of The Deep End last night. And those 17 minutes were so painful.

I didn’t have high hopes for the quality of the content, but I thought the performance by a talented cast might make it all somewhat pleasant. I was wrong. Not even Clancy Brown could overcome that nightmare.

Anyway, it appears that for once the viewing public agreed with me. According to TV by the Numbers, The Deep End scored a solid 1.8 rating for adults 18-49, a full 14% below the lowest-rated episode of Flash Forward. Oddly, though, the ratings were pretty steady across the half hours, with very few viewers following my lead and turning that crap off.

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