new show on channel 4 in the uk, starring curtis from misfits and jamie from the thick of it/in the loop. pretty great first ep. i think this would be right up 8's alley
new show on channel 4 in the uk, starring curtis from misfits and jamie from the thick of it/in the loop. pretty great first ep. i think this would be right up 8's alley
figure i should throw a trailer in here too
i wonder if winston has seen it
Caught the first two episodes because of your rec.
It's a good show. I like the humor. Surprising violence. The awkwardness (and resulting non-fallout) from that one sex-scene. I liked the way it acknowledged the line it's treading (The "I Want to Believe" poster in a prominent character's bedroom.)
They can go in any direction with it, but I think the struggle will be to keep people interested in a premise that can only raise more questions, and never give definitive answers.
The dialogue in the second episode with The Tramp began to feel a little dry, because it's so obviously just a massive expostion dump. I really dug the energy & inventiveness & the pacing of the first episode but that kind of thing, so soon, has me a little apprehensive about the show in the longer run.
It feels like they've boxed themselves into a corner because, unlike "Fringe" or "Warehouse 13" or "The X-Files," they have no room to do a monster-of-the-week, one-off episodes.
Edit: Of course, unlike those shows they're not committed to massive 20+ episodes per "series." I could see this working really well if it's kept to 3-8 episodes per run.
well this first series is only 6 episodes, and it seems to me like it may only be a one-off mini-series
That's an interesting thought. I don't know if they do miniseries like that in the UK (at least, like the ones that used to be popular in the US).Quoting Acapelli (view post)
My instinct is that they don't, and anything that's put on air is there because it's going to be an ongoing show (sometimes that means long breaks between 'series,' as with "Doc Martin" and "Foyle's War").
The only instance I can think of where something popular was a one-off is "Ultraviolet," which ran for only six episodes. The story behind that is a little weird, though.
i'm pretty sure they do it fairly often on british television. i mean, jon hamm and daniel radcliffe both recently starred in a miniseries this summer for the bbc
one of my favorite television shows of the last 5 years (as flawed as it was) was "the shadow line" and that starred chiwetel ejiofr, christopher eccleston and stephen rea, and that was a single series. one of tom hardy's breakout roles was the british miniseries "the take"
seems to me that this happens in the uk enough that it wouldn't be out of the ordinary
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