Perhaps “return” is the wrong word, but several shows that were cancelled during the regular TV season are now having their “leftover” episodes burned off. Do the new episodes make me wish they weren’t gone too soon? Not exactly…
666 Park Avenue…Before it Got Yanked: This was a so-so show at best. The two main characters were annoyingly moralistic and boring, but Terry O’Quinn and Vanessa L. Williams were a match made in TV heaven as the owners of the mysterious Drake building in Manhattan…After it Got Yanked: the new-ish episodes are lousy. Each one shows the suspense dissipate and now we’re lost in some tired conspiracy more than genuine horror scares…Before: C+…After: C-
Zero Hour…Before it Got Yanked: It was pulled after only three horribly rated episodes. The show follows a ridiculously convoluted conspiracy that’s too uninteresting to really care about solving. The best part of the first episodes was Carmen Ejogo as an unorthodox FBI agent…After it Got Yanked: Awful. Each episode is more confusing than the last, and is mirred in stale acting and lackluster, inconsequential pacing. The biggest and only satisfying twist is that Anthony Edwards’s wife is really pretending to be someone else. Ejogo is still interesting but she’s barely in the new episodes…Before: C-…After: D
Do No Harm…Before it Got Yanked: Followed a brilliant neurosurgeon who transforms into a Mr. Hyde alter-ego every night at 8:25. I actually enjoyed this show, but didn’t exactly cry when it was cancelled…After it Got Yanked: If you liked the earlier episodes, you’re probably okay with these ones (I enjoyed the twist that Mr. Hyde put someone in the hospital and Dr. Jekyll had to save his life), but it’s hard to make much case that it really could have lasted longer than 12 episodes anyway. It’s a pretty limited premise that’s already getting harder to believe every episode…Before: B…After: C+