I was a somewhat punk rock kid in high school but with a secret love of Iron Maiden and Black Sabbath. I remember walking into the record store near my school in the fall of 1983, checking out the discs when I stumbled upon Kill 'Em All. Although I loved some metal I was always turned off by its look: the S&M look,…

Also, the source material is god awful. Each book in the trilogy is barely over 200 pages and they read like detailed outlines rather than the finished product. This TV adaptation reminds me of the old Hollywood days of taking obscure or poorly written novels and adapting them as films, a la Hitchcock. There was…