PainKiller Jane After a Few Weeks

PainKiller Jane, staring Kristanna Loken of Terminator 3 fame, has been on SciFi for 5-6 weeks now. I figure at this time you are either watching it or not and my musings here aren't going to change your mind about watching or not.

That's still not going to stop me from posting...

Personally, I want to like the show. It has an interesting plot and the series has been flowing from one episode to another pretty well. Character development has been decent and fairly consistent--we learn a little bit about every character each week.

However, this is all brought down quickly by the fact that Kristanna cannot act. She has a lot of monologues in the series, and these come across well--mostly because she doesn't have to infuse the words with any emotion. However, given a live scene, her words come out, well, monotonic. I can see why her terminator character in T3 didn't have any speaking scenes (and I'm starting to have sympathy headache flashbacks when I remember watching BloodRayne).

So, if you watch only for the plot, the background (via monologues) of the tortured character that is Jane, and the obvious Kristanna eye candy--it's a good show.  But, if you need solid acting chops from your action heroine, this one's not for you.

(FWIW, Kristanna does have co-executive producer credit on the series, so she is fairly well invested in the show.)