Submitted by: Kyle Nin (SoSF Staff Reporter)
After a very long hiatus ER’s Eriq La Salle returns to the network that made him a star. La Salle will be starring in and act as executive producer of a new NBC SF comedy project called “The Four Next Door.” This weekly series will take from the Book of Revelation’s Four Horseman of the Apocalypse and put an apocalyptic comedic twist to the age-old plot by having the Four forced to blend in and live among humans after mistakenly arriving on Earth ten years too early. Before they can bring an end to the world as we know it, the Four begin enjoying Earth and its inhabitants.
I smell another “Book of Daniel” controversy with this one. Still, it’s a clever idea.
I was thinking the exact same thing, Kaiser, but you beat me to it!
Offhand I see one important difference between “Book of Daniel” and “The Four Next Door”:
Jesus is the most important figure in the entire New Testament. On one hand, he’s therefore subject to everyone’s individual image of how he should behave and what he should stand for, while on the other, there’s a lot of material with which to form that image. The Four Horsemen (I’ll call them the 4H Club, because it’s State Fair time here in Indiana), on the other hand, are one-line characters mentioned in one book that’s interpreted in many different ways to begin with. So there’s not as much emotional investment in their image as there is in that of Jesus.
We can hope there will be another distinction between the two shows, too: unlike “BoD,” we can hope “T4ND” will actually be good. 😉
This almost sounds like a rehash of “Third Rock from the Sun”. I have to wonder if the concept can hold up after the novelty of the first few episodes wear off.