Knight Rider is one of those shows perhaps best left in the 1980s, but that doesn’t stop studio executives from trying to beat the dead horse a couple more times by ressurecting it (yet again) as a two hour telemovie.
Apart from it being just generally awful, the sponsors (Ford) didn’t miss the fact that the old series was one massive ads for Trans Ams.
In case the audience doesn’t realize that, they chose to populate the every 2.5 minutes ads with Ford and Mustang ads, too.
I have just a couple tiny comments about the show itself, which was generally waste of 2 hours of my life.
1- They should have hired Brent Spiner to be the voice of KITT. Val Kilmer turns in a typically bad performance.
2- What is it with the writers when they choose to introduce their characters by starting us off with their sexual proclivities? Mike what’s-his-name is introduced as being in bed with two women while the FBI agent is introduced with a little bedroom dialog between her and some woman she picked up the night before. Neither advanced the plot except to move us closer to the next Ford ad.
…or where they just trying to be edgy. I hope this isn’t because they’ve been watching Torchwood.