TV: Reaper: "The Home Stretch"

Reaper's biggest fault is that it so often takes the path of least resistance, story-wise. (Sorry, broken record here, but it's okay because we're going to end up someplace nice.) There just doesn't seem to be a whole lot of urgency to anything, especially considering the circumstances, and too many promising plot threads have been broken by shoulder-shrug resolutions. We can excuse it by saying "that's just the kind of show this is," but I'd argue that the laid-back nature can go too far, regardless of the style. You keep hoping for some kind ... (link)