sentences:  Tim Goodman of the "San Francisco Chronicle" considered it as a "flat-out awful" pilot of what "may well be the worst new fall show".Rob Owen of the "Pittsburgh Post-Gazette" described the pilot as "a weak, generic private-eye drama with a vampire story overlay", and Matthew Gilbert of the "Boston Globe" felt that it came close to a "full-on nightmare".The writing of the pilot was criticized as "ponderous", and having "familiar, conventional plots".