Jack Smedsson I gave October Road a two because, even though it is really really awful, it taught me something.If you came across this show, like I did, by way of the excellent 1996 film Beautiful Girls, written by Rosenberg, then you will suddenly realise what a difference good acting, casting and direction make! I thought Beautiful Girls was a very well put together film and had a great cast that gelled together really well (apparently Ted Demme, the director, made the entire cast live together for three weeks so they could bond and convey a sense of lifelong buddies). So I liked Beautiful Girls and figured that was down to Scott Rosenberg's writing. No such luck. Even though the script is basically by the same guy, following a very similar premise, and written since he's had the experience of writing for a Hollywood production, October Road sucks. It is so bad I don't know where to begin criticising it.I would say the camera work is bad, for example, but it wouldn't be fair on the cameramen as they probably went blind from watching such bad acting! Bryan Greenberg is, as the lead, the worst offender. You've got to wonder whether he slept with the casting director to get the part or if maybe the casting director was off learning how to be bad at his/her job the day god was handing out brains. Clearly, though, Greenberg was cast for his male-eye-candy skills rather than his ability to deliver lines or show any emotion beyond, "do I look good in this shot?" The direction is also palpably bad. Beautiful Girls is, in hindsight, also full of Rosenberg's idiotic verbose dialogue but the actors were made to deliver it so well that it fits the mood of the movie. In October Road its as though the director said, "Great, you delivered that randomly verbose line (which is so out of keeping with the fact that your character is a small town construction worker) without showing even the slightest sign of human emotion or natural intonation."Even though October Road is basically unwatchable, I recommend you watch it to compare it to Beautiful Girls. The comparison should be a textbook example of what a difference good acting and direction can make to an unexceptional (or, in the case of October Road, completely inept) script.

PandoraX I came across the show due to utter boredom because i was pretty much running out of shows to watch since i have watched quite a bunch... i decided to get the the DVD for this one and i was definitely surprised... the show is great and i don't understand why it didn't gain any more popularity than it has... the thing i loved most about the show was that most of the things aren't as expected as they are in most other shows... the surprises in the show were ACTUALLY surprising... the story flows nicely... the dialogs and the characters are wonderful....there was no stuff happening on the big scale, everything is pretty ordinary and believable and no clichés... and the show is original...and one of the few shows that i look forward to watching (another being brothers and sisters). In contrast to serials like one tree hill and others which get too dramatic and too much keeps happening, this was a pleasant change and most definitely a good watch...

yumpin80 I can't believe they canceled this SHOW!!! What is ABC thinking???? I will definitely write to both of these places. Hopefully everyone else has also! I find anymore that I am watching CBS more than ABC and in the last few years I have always watched ABC more, but boy they are just getting ridiculous with the canceling of good shows and bring some weirder ones on! Why do they do that?!?!?!?! LOL Let you get hooked on one show for a couple of years and then take it and rip it away from us! Just isn't fair is it!?!?!? This show was just getting good and why the people at ABC can't figure that out and give it a chance is beyond me! Another show they canceled to that was really really good was What About Brian. Like I said before get us hooked just to take it away from us. We don't really need anymore "cop" shows do we. Why not some good clean fun and soap like series. And then I also heard and am not very happy about Desperate Housewives. Looking only to be on for like 5 years. What's up with that? The writers if they would have left it stand would have had a great run. Don't just jump 5 years into it and then have to retract and go back and see what really happened five years prior! What's up with that? And also along that line I don't like that Susan and Mike are not together anymore. Not really getting the whole reasoning behind that one either!!!!

Randy Coates This show is really disappointing. I get the feeling the show or the network is paying people to come on IMDb and vote it tens and write great reviews because there is no way this show deserves an 8.1 out of ten. Or maybe it's the people who work for the show, or their relatives, or just some insane fans who actually like this awful show. I know, it's surprising, but every show, no matter how truly awful it is, has a group of lunatic fanatics who for some reason have convinced themselves that it's the best show ever. Anyway, this show is boring. The acting sucks. The dialog is laughable. BOOOOO, October Road!!!! BOOO!!!!