In case you guys missed it last week -- or heard but were pretty sure it was total bullshit, ha ha, they wouldn't seriously do that, huh? -- and plan on watching Damages tonight, we warn you: Saturday Night Live cast member ("regular" hardly seems like an accurate term) Darrell Hammond is now playing some sort of evil, creepy lackey on the show. Oh, did we say "evil, creepy"? We meant "Damages obviously doesn't care anymore." Video after the jump.
OK, now, we know what you're going to say -- last season's evil, creepy guy was played by Doug from Flight of the Conchords, and he's funny, right? True. But Doug was nice enough to grow a beard and wear plaid, code for menacing weirdo (or hipster). Darrell Hammond looks like he's doing a lazy impression of a 90's movie serial killer on an overheated soundstage and having trouble with the concept of not reading his lines of cur cards in the process. Like, we don't buy this for a second. OK, he had another, slightly more convincing scene later on in last week's episode, but still...
This does not bode well for Damages, which we found entrancing and unnerving last year but this year has so far failed to grab our attention much. The urgency of last year's plot, with Ellen accused of a crime and digging her way out in flashback, has yet to be matched with any of this William Hurt business. What's more, we find ourselves completely uninterested in whatever secrets Patty Hewes has buried in her past. Wasn't this the problem with all those late books about Hannibal Lecter -- they filled in the blanks that made the character initially interesting?
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