Cheat !!
Yeah mutherfucking cheat. Not really horror, but definitely something seated in the horror genre world.
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Ed Note: I didn't actually re-watch the entire series again; it sputtered out as much as the whole month did. P.S. Who is Ed anyway?
Anywayz, I needed something in the genre wheelhouse but a little less heavy. Again, fucking again, work weighed its ugly chains across me, and I was emotionally spent before I could finish the season of actual good movies. One thing about watching, every night, movies that are based around increasing your stress reactors, is that if you stress reactors are already in overtime, it begins to get to you. Thus, I needed something lighter, something that just made me smile. And, as we had caught a few of the Arrow-verse episodes with Johnny Boy, I reminded me how much I liked Matt Ryan in the role.
The series is meant to be John Constantine, seasoned practitioner of the dark arts, transplanted from the UK to the US, escaping all the bad deeds he committed across the pond. He is trying to avoid getting mixed up in things that make him a buck, but is drawn back into an epic situation by a snobby angel who basically blackmails John into helping him. Something big is coming and only John can help. Its always that.
Despite the epic setup, which stumbles because they didn't keep the main actor/character from the pilot, the show quickly drops into a Supernatural Encounter of the Week show. Which was entirely fine by me. It was John Constantine Light, with the utter ridiculous aspect of having him not smoke (smoking on TV is bad) but constantly fidgeting with his lighter. But it was also John Constantine Light, in that nothing really horrific happens. But Matt Ryan's smarmy charm more than makes up for all of that. And his supporting cast is solid. And the stories are fun, occasionally reminding us of characters from the comic, as all good adaptations should.
Where the show ultimately failed is because it wanted to embrace its source material but keep it PG rating. DC Legends of Tomorrow did it better, because they basically transplanted the newly envisioned comic book John, where he is much more integrated into the superhero side of DC, and added him into their mix of magic related stories. Its not close to source material, but the characters and stories were fun and better told.
John Constantine would benefit more as a byproduct of Deadpool's fame -- R Rated. Really scare us, really shock us, cloud us in nicotine smoke and embrace his bi-sexuality, or at the very least, sexuality.
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