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| 8-10 PM - THURSDAY, NOV. 5TH, 1998
RIDDLER'S MOON (UPN, TV-PG) This oddly appealing little teleflick suffers from a bit of an identity crisis. On the one hand, it's a heartfelt drama about the hardships visited on the people of a small Indiana farming community after the land suddenly goes fallow. But Riddler is also a wannabe sci-fi suspenser, complete with a wheelchair-propelled prophet (Daniel Newman) who has mysterious visions of eclipses and rocks rising from the empty fields. Sure, it moves along at a snail's pace and the whole thing's a bit too earnest for it's own good. Still, Voyager's Kate Mulgrew and Corbin Bernsen turn in nicely nuanced performances as a skeptical landowner and the town dreamer who wants to believe. Maybe they're no Mulder and Scully, but at least they act on their sexual tension. B- By - Shawna Malcom |
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