My Own Worst Enemy

**kman** · 10-21-2008, 09:09 PM

Has anyone else been watching this? It's two episodes in, and so far I've been pretty well entertained by it. Christian Slater's way better than I thought he would be, and I think the premise has a good bit of potential for some good episodes. Mike O'Malley's also a plus.

Thoughts?

**ScottEwen** · 10-21-2008, 09:15 PM

Slater was on Howard Stern last week promoting this and the concept sounded interesting. I was waiting to hear some reviews before I actually decided whether or not to watch, though.

**lost-spartan** · 10-21-2008, 09:21 PM

I caught some of it last night. I thought the dual personality bit was ok, but the wimp turning into the spy just in time to save O'Malley, who is laughable as a badass, was a little too cliche. Other than that, the concept is good. Hopefully they can really push the two personalities to even farther extremes, as that would keep me interested.

**Inkthinker** · 10-22-2008, 12:35 AM

Saw the first one and thought it was interesting. Total Recall meets True Lies with Christian Slater instead of Arnold Schwarzenegger. And I like that the nice personality with the real life is the artificial one.

**KenKRK** · 10-22-2008, 07:41 AM

I just love that Henry now never seems to get to have sex with his wife!!

**kman** · 10-22-2008, 10:00 PM

I thought that was a funny gag the first couple times I saw it, but after a while it just got annoying...especially that the wife's character has been reduced to some kind of sex-crazed nympho now. It's kinda stupid.

Mike O'Malley is pretty unconvincing as a badass, I'm just hoping they write some more funny dialogue for him in the future. The part where he shows Henry what the "hummingbird" is was pretty great.

**Tight-Pants Jack** · 11-02-2008, 03:20 PM

Sometimes I wonder just how dumb Henry's been programmed to be.

See, if I found out I was part of some super-secret spy program and everything relating to my job was a conspiracy behind it, I would, you know, STOP TRUSTING MY COMPANY SHRINK WITH MY SECRETS.

How could he NOT see that coming?!

I think the show's very interesting so far. Nice to see how things at Janus work through Mike O'Malley's character, who isn't broken yet.

And, despite what's been said before, I think O'Malley does a GREAT job at playing a spy. Really, most undercover agents DON'T look like body builders. Instead, they're trained to look like guys you don't want to stare at too much; middle-aged, slightly overweight, etc.