This sucks donkeys balls to no end.

Yeah you read that right: I did dare to use my personal “worst epithet ever” for this. Because everything about this project (with the possible exception of Will Ferrell which I’ll get to later) screams out “wrong” in every way possible.

I was 5 years old and in kindergarten when WFMY out of Greensboro started showing Land of the Lost on weekday afternoons at 3:30. Land of the Lost, even before I ever saw a Star Wars movie, was my first serious exposure to what I would come to appreciate as epic storytelling within a broad mythology. The weird landscape, the dinosaurs, the Sleestaks, the Lost City, the Pylons, the Civil War soldier, the ape dudes, the spaceship… and Rick Marshall and his two kids trying to get home: I ate it all up and wanted more. Here’s the first season’s opening ...