Reaper is an adventure/comedy
series about Sam, who on his 21st birthday finds out that his
parents sold his soul to the Devil before he was born. Now, he must work as a
bounty hunter for the Devil, capturing escaped souls and returning them to
Hell. The problem is: he is just a slacker barely doing his job at a Home
Depot-like store; how is he going to capture escaped souls?
The series was created by Tara Butters and Michele Fazekas.
The writing team of Butters and Fazekas went on to work on Dollhouse, Hawaii Five-O,
and the new series Resurrection.
Reaper has a sneakily great cast
for its genre. The series stars Bret Harrison and
co-stars Tyler
Labine, Rick
Gonzalez, Missy
Peregrym and Ray
Wise. It also features reoccurring characters played by Andrew Airlie, Donavon Stinson, Valarie Rae Miller,
Jenny Wade,
Ken Marino,
Eriko Tamura,
Michael Ian
Black, Armie
Hammer, Sean
Patrick Thomas, Jessica Stroup,
and Lucy
Davis.
While the series only lasted two
seasons before being cancelled (it was way too cool/quirky to last), Reaper is
a very fun cult show structured as a monster-of-the-week with strong character
arcs that progress over the course of the show. The series also does not have a
proper series finale; however, the episode that ends season two does serve as a
solid, if ambiguous ending (I liked the way it ended). At its worse, Reaper is
a silly, entertaining show and at its best a very engaging and fun
adventure/comedy. This is worth checking out for fans of things like Buffy
the Vampire Slayer, Angel,
Misfits, Supernatural, and Pushing Daisies.
Trailer: Here
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