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Originally Posted by Rafael Chandler
Right on. I never saw the show -- is it worth checking out?
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I loved it, myself. The first season or two were great, but then they retitled it "Good vs. Evil" and it went downhill.
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Originally Posted by Rafael Chandler
Oddly enough, if I had to compare Dread to a TV show, I'd point to The Wire or The Shield. Street-level violence, moral ambiguity, brutality, investigation, deeply flawed protagonists, and human misery. But with demons.
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Yeah, it sounds like grittiness is the order of the day for
Dread, which makes sense. "G vs. E" was two parts comedy, one part funk, and one part demon hunting (although I think they called them "Morlocks" for whatever reason), so clearly the emphasis was elsewhere, but the basics are close enough. In "G vs. E," recently deceased humans who aren't good enough for Heaven or bad enough for Hell are recruited into the Corps and given another shot. If they serve the Corps well (by killing demons and preventing people from signing Faustian bargains, and/or convincing them to renounce one if they've already signed), they can earn their way into Heaven. It was a fun show.
As per the intro: "A man torn from his family, murdered in his prime, only to return to Earth, resurrected as an agent of the Almighty Corps. With no magic, no special powers, forbidden from intimate contact, unrecognizable to those from their past lives, Chandler Smythe and Henry McNeil now fight to save lost souls against the minions of darkness. It is a battle of Good versus Evil. G vs. E,
that's what it is!"