The Spoils of Babylon

These first two episodes are gut-busting, non-stop fun.

While Episode 1 is a bit of a bore, the second episode is flat-out hilarious.

It’s all in good fun, lets us in on the joke and--save for one dumb plot device--is well done and believable in its contextual universe.

This parody of bad vintage miniseries is asinine--it's supposed to be--and from time to time hilarious. [13 Jan 2014, p.49]

It’s good for some dumb laughs, and--important in this age when complex television dramas consume so many of our brain cells--it doesn’t demand much of a mental commitment.

The first two episodes prove as tiresomely pleased-with-themselves as my run-on sentences. A half-hour is too much of not enough.

Part of the joke is that The Spoils of Babylon was utterly unwatchable, and that’s why the network never showed it; it seems they achieved that goal a little too well.