For some, all you have to say is Terry O’Quinn to get them in the door. If you say Terry O’Quinn AND Vanessa Williams the most logical answer is “Why am I not watching this?!” 666 Park Avenue is a supernatural show about a seemingly haunted hotel that is run by perhaps the Devil. It’s 80% The Devil’s Advocate, 10% The Shining, and 10% random horror movie stock. The show works well enough with all of these elements and has creative twists paired with gruesome deaths which make it unique. Most of everyone at the hotel has made a deal with hotel owner/ mysterious Satan-like power mogul Gavin Doran. New couple Jane and Henry move in to The Drake which is on 999 Park Avenue but mysterious flips to 666 at convenient spooky moments. Jane has an interesting background with The Drake via her grandmother and is just starting to scratch at the surface of her past. Henry wants to become a powerful politician and keeps taking favors from Gavin. He is unwittingly digging a deeper hole for his soul.
My favorite story line has to do with a young reporter who makes a deal with Gavin to become a better and respected writer at her newspaper. She wrote a completely fabricated obituary about a regular man and created a dangerous Russian spy alter ego for him. To her horror, the Russian spy is real, stalks her and terrorizes her to reveal who told her about his secret identity. When she can’t reveal her source because there is none, he kills her for her trouble. I enjoyed how she created a fake man that resulted in her real death. Other patrons of The Drake have made deals with Gavin and all of them go sour. Most residents do not suspect Gavin is the Devil but the ones who do mysteriously die, disappear, or have to keep his secret under the pain of death.
666 Park Avenue is a good show and has enough to entertain week-to-week but we’ll never get a chance to see it develop more because it has been canceled by ABC. The cancellation announcement was paired with the cancellation announcement of Last Resort. The writers promised us closure and a real ending for the series but have pulled the remaining episodes from their regular time slot so when we will actually get to see said closure remains to be seen.
666 Park Avenue has been cancelled by ABC. The airing schedule of the remaining episodes is unknown.