Family Tree Haven Syfy, Fridays, 9/10 PM “Roots” Written by Jim Dunn Directed by Tim Southam “What is in these woods?” – Audrey About halfway through this slow-moving episode of Haven, I finally figured out why this story wasn’t working. It wasn’t just the lame CGI, or the forcing of the Nathan/Audrey storyline. It was the fact that several people were holed up in a barn, menaced by sentient trees, and all they could talk about was their love lives. This is narcissism on an epic scale, to be confronted with supernatural horror and to treat it as wallpaper while you sort…
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Haven: “Audrey Parker’s Day Off”
Reset Haven Syfy, Fridays, 9/10 PM “Audrey Parker’s Day Off” Written by Nora Zuckerman & Lilla Zuckerman Directed by Fred Gerber “You’re stuck in my second favorite Bill Murray movie.” – Nathan Yes, it certainly looks like Audrey Parker is stuck in Groundhog Day, the Murray farce about a man who keeps living the same day over and over. But that’s comedy, and this is horror. The story I was reminded of most frequently while watching this episode of Haven was The X-Files episode “Monday“. In that first-class story, a woman lives the same day over and over, unable to stop the disaster…