This might well be even worse than another reality show. Fox Television, where the suits wouldn’t recognize a decent show if you strapped them down and forced them to watch it Clockwork Orange-style, is threatening to turn the Eighties classic Heathers into a weekly series. As bad ideas go, this beats Winona Ryder’s addled suggestion that a Heathers sequel was in the works, because Heathers was a marvelously self-contained little piece of black comedy. Moreover, the ending seemed fairly conclusive.
How, exactly, would Heathers work as a weekly show? Would the Winona Ryder character go through a whole series of dangerously psychotic boyfriends, or would we get a different teen murder/suicide each week? What’s more, I doubt they could match the dialog of the original, unless they hired the writers for The Gilmore Girls and fed them multiple hits of bad acid. Just a terrible idea all around. Luckily, it’s on Fox, so they’ll probably kill it before the sixth episode.
