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Brilliant Series Destroyed by Poor Writing
At its best Eerie Indiana was flat out brilliant. 13 year old Marshall is a resent transplant form New Jersey. Simon, his 9 year old best friend, is a life long Eerie resident. Despite the four year age difference the two boys share a strong bond as they are the only ones who are aware that Eerie is not what it seems. Eerie has one foot in middle America and the other foot in The Twilight Zone. As such, for a few fabulous episodes, the show was able to pull off the near impossible. It effectively parodied the supernatural and the mundane all at the same time. <
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>But by the seventh episode, "Heart on a Chain" things started to go wrong. The story about the little girl who received a heart transplant with the donor being a friend of Marshall wasn't very funny. It played like a creepy and very depressing soap opera. Fortunately the momentum was regained with the next five installments which contain some of the show's finest moments. <
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>But in episode 13, "The Hole in the Wall Gang" the writers pushed the self destruct button. We meet the "Gray Haired Kid." The Gray Haired Kid is a good actor and he has many very funny lines but what is he doing in the story? Until we met T.G.K. Marshall and Simon were the only people who knew the Eerie was creepy. The problem is, with no name and no memory of who he is, T.G.K. is himself creepy. The writers don't know how to use his character just as Marshall and Simon don't know how to relate to him. Is he a potential friend and ally or is he just one more example of Eerie weirdness to be studied? The boys don't know and neither do we. <
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>In episode 18 Marshall discovers that his house and Eerie have been replaced by a Hollywood sound stage and his friends and family are actors who in turn think he is an actor. A good idea for a story but why oh why did they have to make every member of the cast out to be a money grubbing, self centered prick. To add insult to injury the names used (and used, and used) by the cast are the real names of the actors. We see Simon, holding a cell phone the size of a shoe box to his ear, as he berates his own mother for a botched stock deal. Simon is an innocent and lovable kid and I'm sure the actor who played him has many fine qualities. To depict him as a spoiled super brat was both cynical and mean spirited. It certainly wasn't funny. <
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>Perhaps someday someone will remake Eerie Indiana and concentrate on all the things that made most of the episodes so great. The idea for the series deserves respect just as the characters of Marshall and Simon deserve to be treated with affection.

Welcome Back To Eerie...
This was another great show that envisioned the world through the eyes of a child, but in a much spookier way. As another reviewer put it, "a Twilight Zone for kids" and in many ways the inspiration for another one of my favorite shows The Adventures Of Pete& Pete, mostly due to it's dark humor and mysterious nature. Although it should be noted that Eerie Indiana is somewhat darker and scarier than Pete & Pete, just so that concerned parents have fair warning. Marshall Teller and his friend Simon Holmes investigate the strange goings on in Eerie and record them in Marshall's journal along with a cabinet filled with actual artifacts from their weird adventures in hopes of someday revealing it to the world. Especially since they two are the only ones that know of the darker side of Eerie and no one else will beleive them. It's a great show but the DVD collection was unexpected since it was only one season long. It's lots of creepy fun though, I recomend it for those who are into this sort of thing.