We took in the final 2 hours of NBC’s “The Storm” last night.  While watching this horrendous 2 hours of TV, we realized something… the writers so whole-heartedly bought into the theory that Marisol Nichols forces the cancellation of shows that they did not even start writing part 2 of the mini-series until this past Wednesday.

There’s no other explanation.  Part 1 of the event was not good, but certainly entertaining.  Part 2, however, was purely just painful.  We can only imagine the writers scrambling on Tuesday night when they got the call that yes, NBC was planning on running part 2 of the mini-series.  Hence, they stuck to 2 common themes - James Van Der Beek runs from bad guys in the rain and some woman has a baby during a storm.  There you have it.

And we’ll close with a nice line from the NY Times review of the show: “NBC has given its current batch of Sunday night mini-series a name: Survival Sundays. It refers to the survival of the human race, but it could just as easily refer to the survival of the viewer’s brain.”

(PS - that line from the review barely beat out this one as our favorite: “’The Storm’ packs an hour and a half of story into its four hours.”)