Deadline

Ep.

Title

Air/Pub'l

Grade

Author
1-3
Recap

Police Brutality

Perception - NBC pulls a switcheroo and airs an episode about a convoluted cop-turned-vigilante-turned-killer-turned dead man, rather than the politically charged show we were promised. It doesn't matter - Wallace still gets the guy, Bebe Neuwirth gets the shaft, Brooke gets a different shaft and the show still sucks.

 2000.10.16
2000.11.21		 D

Heathen
1-5
Recap

Sweet Merciful God, It's Over

Red Herring - Wallace gets off twice in this episode -- once with a woman, and once because he's cleared or murder. The Ghost of Cancellation Future visits a screening of Deadline and, horrified, pulls the plug.

 2000.10.30
2000.11.02		 D

Heathen
1-4
Recap

Who Am I? I'm Jean Valjean!

Daniel In The Lion's Den - Okay, not exactly, but Wallace does reveal that an upstart New York politician is in fact a thirty-year fugitive with a stolen identity. Nikki, already the man's lover, basks in the glory of sex-on-the-lam.

 2000.10.23
2000.10.25		 D

Heathen
1-2
Recap

No Sex For The Wicked

Lovers And Madmen - Brooke's fast-train to sexual satisfaction is derailed when Wallace exposes her suitor as a killer. The show exposes its weak side: plot and writing.

 2000.10.09
2000.10.13		 D

Heathen
1-1
Recap

The Boozehound Newshound

Pilot - Whiskey-sodden New York Ledger reporter Wallace Benton (Oliver Platt) decides that his job description includes drinking, playing cops and robbers, drinking, drinking, and never going to work. And drinking.

 2000.10.02
2000.10.03		 D

Heathen