Okay, angels who come down to Earth is as old as the, er, Bible, but angels that come mix with us mortals as lawyers? Now that's just crazy talk!! 'Eternal Law' has this very premis and, while it's far from heavenly, it's not quite hellish and gives us some cheery fare in the dark January days. But it's still not the most the original of angel-takes; perhaps we're going to soon have our TV sets festooned with the winged ones similar to the vampire takeover of recent years? 'Eternal Law' is like a not very good episode of 'Quantum Leap'...again, not exactly terrible but not classic telly or 9pm programming. It's more of a 5-7pm effort that's pleasant, insubstantial, glossily produced, yet ultimately, neither that spiritually or intellectaually filling. On the plus side, it is brave enough sticking this sort of stuff out on prime-time; give 'thetvreviewguy' something quirky over some Geezer Mockney prog any day. The writing, however, needs to get sharper, the third episode started well but just fizzled out before the end, which topped off the damp squib. The sort of TV show that's perfect if you're a) a Teacher correcting homework b) doing some form of 'blogging' c) half asleep d) hungover. While 'thetvreviewguy' might prefer Engels to Angels, he could do worse than tune in for another episode but then again he won't be knocking on Heaven's door to see it again. Hasn't quite earned its wings yet.
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