On the plus side, when it was good, it was really good. Unfortunately it also meandered around, wasted a lot of time, and fell back on a couple of what are becoming standardized Strain clichés.
We’re now past the halfway point in the season and "Dream Baby Dream" shows the foundations of the Stansbury house, Linden, and Holder are all very severely cracked.
The campy, silly tone delighted kids and amused adults. It was pretty clear that Batman was a huge hit and to capitalize on the show's popularity, Batman was sent to theaters for his first full-length motion picture….in color!
How did they know how to be so precise? The stolen photos couldn't have told so much, but that doesn't matter as much as how devastating the gestures become.
There’s a sense of tragic loss underlying nearly every scene that’s compounded by questions of culpability and guilt that builds right up to the rolling of the credits.
A show that does a simple, focused thing competently and enjoyably is rare enough, and in that sense there's no wrong in calling this show a classic and a treasure.
Some of the details may have been lost in translation, but, overall, the parody managed to pull together two distinct TV series and keep their tone while adding to the work.
