Monday, September 26, 2005
Threshold looks promising. I'm only one episode in at the moment but they haven't introduced the unnecessarily annoying member of the team who slows everyone down by putting up obstacles, the s.1 Cordelia if you will. Still, plenty of time to go. It seems to be pretty much the over-arcing alien conspiracy of The X-Files though that's not a criticism, before that show degenerated into pantomime and farce it was those episodes when it was at it's best.
I'm falling out of love with Boston Legal nearly as fast as I fell in originally. Living TV seem to enjoy showing blocks of series one at a time and date of choosing presumably based on the Tarot, but at the moment it's very early in the season, and while the subject of Crane's Alzheimers borders on bad taste Poole's mental instability tips over. Then there's Alan Shore's deeply unpleasant attitude towards women which seems to be ignored, allowed and tolerated because deep down he knows he's a shit. His behaviour towards Sally towards the start of the season would be okay if it wasn't for the fact that, towards the end of the season he's seeing Tara and there's a big thing about how he's morally outraged, outraged I tells ya, by the behaviour of a guy who kills his mother in a fit of rage and then gets Alan to defend him. The problem with comedy-dramas is that sometimes they get the two mixed up when they need to be kept clear.
House series two. Again, only seen the first episode so far but it looks good, though I wish they hadn't changed the original title music for Massive Attack. Although drafting in his ex-partner gives them someone who's allowed to be even more rude to House than Dr Cuddy this show could stagnate quickly if House continues to break the rules and get away with it and always saves his patients. Season One showed us that all is not right in that perma-five o'clock shadowed cranium and now they need to follow that up and quickly.
Constantine. Surprisingly fun really. By bearing absolutely no simularity to the comic beyond the title character's name it leaves Hellblazer free for someone to actually do a film of that somewhere along the line. As it is this is witty and sharp in places, with good central performances, especially Tilda Swinton as Gabriel and surprisingly Gavin Rossdale as Balthazar.
I'm falling out of love with Boston Legal nearly as fast as I fell in originally. Living TV seem to enjoy showing blocks of series one at a time and date of choosing presumably based on the Tarot, but at the moment it's very early in the season, and while the subject of Crane's Alzheimers borders on bad taste Poole's mental instability tips over. Then there's Alan Shore's deeply unpleasant attitude towards women which seems to be ignored, allowed and tolerated because deep down he knows he's a shit. His behaviour towards Sally towards the start of the season would be okay if it wasn't for the fact that, towards the end of the season he's seeing Tara and there's a big thing about how he's morally outraged, outraged I tells ya, by the behaviour of a guy who kills his mother in a fit of rage and then gets Alan to defend him. The problem with comedy-dramas is that sometimes they get the two mixed up when they need to be kept clear.
House series two. Again, only seen the first episode so far but it looks good, though I wish they hadn't changed the original title music for Massive Attack. Although drafting in his ex-partner gives them someone who's allowed to be even more rude to House than Dr Cuddy this show could stagnate quickly if House continues to break the rules and get away with it and always saves his patients. Season One showed us that all is not right in that perma-five o'clock shadowed cranium and now they need to follow that up and quickly.
Constantine. Surprisingly fun really. By bearing absolutely no simularity to the comic beyond the title character's name it leaves Hellblazer free for someone to actually do a film of that somewhere along the line. As it is this is witty and sharp in places, with good central performances, especially Tilda Swinton as Gabriel and surprisingly Gavin Rossdale as Balthazar.
