Interesteg What makes it different from others?

Titreenp SERIOUSLY. This is what the crap Hollywood still puts out?

StunnaKrypto Self-important, over-dramatic, uninspired.

Sabah Hensley This is a dark and sometimes deeply uncomfortable drama

hackraytex When I heard this show was going to be done, I was very excited about it. I watched the original Night Stalker each week and for my then wife and me it was one of our must see shows.I will start this review with a thank you for superimposing a scene of Darren McGavin in the news rooms since he had just died previously. He owned the character but Stuart Townsend could have probably captured the character if he had been allowed. X files was running hot and this would have been a good time to bring back Night Stalker. I see they even had a producer who had been involved with X Files.What went wrong? This Kolchak was too far removed from the original and there were too many co stars and subplots. Except for Vincenzo, Kolchak was a loner who worked alone because no one would listen to him. When he got the proof of what he was looking for, he knew no one would believe it so he was taping it for later use. How great it would have been if Kolchak had made an appearance on X Files and passed the torch to Maulder and Sulley along with all of his data.Returning to the "new" Night Stalker. It was too dark and often depressing without the feeling that any minute Kolchak would find out what he was looking for and then had to figure out as he was going along about how to solve the mystery and stay alive.A word to the wise: If anyone wants to give Night Stalker another try, stick to the basics of the first Night Stalker and skip the second. Good job Mr. Townsend and glad your career is still going and rest in peace Mr. McGavin.

loco_73 In the spirit of full disclosure, and just because I am simply lazy, this review also appears as a general posting on a message thread on the show's IMDb page...I personally liked the show. I actually saw it on re-runs on Space (the Canadian counterpart to SyFy) and not during the original airing of the show. It struck me that this new incarnation of "Night Stalker" was a show very much in the vein of "Millenium", a wonderful, wonderful show created by Chris Carter and starring the talented Lance Henriksen. It had that same brooding, dark and suspenseful atmosphere, but more than that it also had almost the same substance and heart as that show. Style was never, at least in my mind, put over substance. Of course as others have pointed it also shared certain similarities with "X-Files".It is true, that it was quite dark for a prime-time, network TV series, and liking it might have been an acquired taste...but the contention that this show was overly pessimistic, hopeless and depressing, is in my mind, unfair and unwarranted. The show only aired six episodes before it was cancelled and never got the chance to establish itself, evolve and show its true potential. We will never know what would and could have been. On the DVD set Frank Spotnitz does hint at and discusses what the future had in store for the characters and their respective story lines as well as the over all theme of the show, Good VS. Evil.Stuart Townsend and Gabrielle Union were excellent together as was the rest of the cast. The stories in each episode were crafted as stand-alone narratives, but they also neatly fitted into the overall arch of the show and Kolchak's one-man crusade to find out the truth about what happened to his wife as well as expose all the strange cases he came across, trying to understand the nature of the dark, the evil, the things that go-bump in the night, which most of us ignore and pretend don't exist.The more I think about it, the more I see "Night Stalker" if not parallel to, at least mirror other similar shows like HBO's "Carnivale" and CW's "Supernatural". But "Millennium" remains the show most comparable to "Night Stalker".Lastly I have to add, that the narration which Stuart Townsend did at the beginning/intro and end/outro of each episode was quite wonderfully chilling and gave me goosebumps each and every time, and I mean this as the highest compliment. That world-weary voice Carl Kolchak brought every week, heavily burdened by the knowledge and awareness of the darkness and evil which lurk out there, made this show a must-see! Too bad it didn't get a fair shake...

dmeister72 First of all, I grew up watching the original television series, with Darren McGavin, whom I hold in terribly high regard. However, the new series was, in my opinion, closer to the more serious intentions of the writers of the original series, which ultimately resulted in a lot of "camp" factor. While I do agree that the series should have picked up someone with a little more personality than Stuart Townsend, the new series was still worth watching. Too bad some Hollywood moron decided otherwise, canceling this show prematurely. While the filming appears somewhat amateurish, the special make-up effects are very well done. At the end of the day, this show should not have been canceled.

viciouslollipop I just recently watched the box set and enjoyed it very much. If you approach it from the angle that this is a different show(but with the same name as the old show-which I enjoyed)you can enjoy it on it's own merits. There was some unexplained and "huh?" type stuff going on, but getting canceled after 6 episodes will do that. I liked the leads, and there were spots of humor in the show(as dark as it was)if you were paying attention. Network TV is inane simply for the fact that they don't give us viewers a chance to get into shows anymore...remember when a show came on every week at the same time and was there for at least a year(even if it sucked)? I had no clue this show had been canceled until I saw the box set of the "complete series"...heck, I never even got a chance to watch it on the telly. Oh well, enough railing against the system...a nice little show that could have been something if given a chance.