A drama from “O.C.” producer McG and “O.C.” writer-producer Stephanie Savage about a 25-year-old who inherits a ski resort. It stars Oliver Hudson (“My Guide to Becoming a Rock Star”), Elizabeth Bogush (“Titans”), Anson Mount (“Line of Fire”), Penn Badgley (“Do Over”), Barbara Hershey (“Chicago Hope”), Mitch Pileggi (“Tarzan”), Chad Everett (“Mulholland Dr.”), Alana de la Garza (“All My Children”) and Johann Urb (“Zoolander”).
A 25-year-old’s kindly grandpa (Chad Everett) is crushed by an avalanche, and the kid inherits a ski resort that his older brother has been running for years. At first the inheritor tells big bro that big bro doesn’t know what he’s doing! Five minutes later he tells big bro that big bro is the only guy who knows what he’s doing! Big bro believes little bro’s every word! Big bro believes! At which point Herc decides that the network who brought you “Studio 7,” “Jack & Bobby,” “Commando Nanny,” “Drew Carey’s Green Screen” and “Blue Collar TV” has no clue what it’s doing.
Thanks again for canceling “Angel,” WB!! You fucking “One Tree Hill” renewing assholes!!
Variety says:
Thanks again for canceling “Angel,” WB!! You fucking “One Tree Hill” renewing assholes!!
Variety says:
"The SnowC" this ain't. Despite being backed by the team that created last year's obsessively lovable "The OC," WB's sudser "The Mountain" is a cliched mess. A handsome cast and unique setting won't save it from getting buried. … it's amazing the show manages to be boring. …
The Hollywood Reporter says:
Angst and brooding are in full cloying bloom … Nobody does self-absorbed twaddle like the WB … The way things play out in the pat and simplistic pilot is not terribly encouraging. … appears to be set amidst snow and slopes primarily to give us plenty of footage of snowboarders hurtling down impossible inclines and high-octane POV shots galore … seems intent on following the time-tested, if overcooked, WB formula of youthful disobedience on full strutting display … The opening teleplay from [Shaun] Cassidy, Stephanie Savage, Gina Matthews and Grant Scharbo is more about mining mountains of anguish than searching to find the honest humanity inside the story. And David Barrett's direction on the premiere is at least as concerned with showcasing the beauty of the winter playground as generating believability from the stereotypical personalities who populate it. After a while, it seems that the character names and series titles change at the WB but not the story lines or the motivations of those who drive them. Indeed, "The Mountain" feels a lot like fellow WB drama "One Tree Hill" in its humorless, irony challenged outlook and yearn-baby-yearn sensibility.
Entertainment Weekly says:
With exec producers like McG (and recent addition Shaun Cassidy), you’d think this thing would move faster and be more fun, or at least a lot soapier. These kinds of shows either find their tone quickly or fade fast – we’re intrigued but skeptical.
TV Guide says:
We agree with David, who tells his big brother, “It’s just a big rock!” Nice scenery can’t disguise the blandness of this tiresome, clichéd soap.
The Los Angeles Times says:
… a mountain of cheese … a mess of bad acting, bad writing and, most important, bad mountain views. ...
USA Today gives it one star (out of four) and says:
… The Mountain is not, alas, trashy in the fun, high-gloss, high-camp Dynasty sense. It's complete garbage in the dull, lifeless WB soap sense — a show so inept, rehashed and formulaic it makes One Tree Hill look original. Indeed, you might almost think WB was joking, except the network has never shown this much flair for comedy. … As humorless as it is witless, as badly acted as it is badly written, The Mountain is so relentlessly predictable, it's not even worth watching to mock. All right, there is some fun to be had in trying to decide which actor is giving the absolute worst performance — my money's on Hudson — but even that pleasure wears thin pretty quickly. And WB thinks this can be a hit? Please. Ain't no viewer high enough.
9 p.m. Wednesday. The WB.
