Sunday January 27, 2008 Three TV Programs And A Movie
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I stumbled upon Woman's Murder Club just before its season started and love it. It's got Angie Harmon in it, so that's a big plus, but the rest of the cast interact well, it's got interesting plots, that are very funny at times and it's based in San Francisco. So far they've done 10 episodes (out of a planned season of 13), but the writers strike has forced it off the air at the moment. Lynea did find the first four James Patterson Murder Club books at the local library book sale of Friday night, so I know what I'll be reading soon.
The other "new" one I'm going to try is Dexter. Even though it was first broadcast on Showtime (which we don't get), it's going to be aired on CBS next month (again, due to the writer's strike). I hope they don't butcher it too much.
Onto the film. About a week ago, we all watched The Simpsons Movie. As Homer says, why go to a theater to watch this when you could be watching in on your TV at home? So true. So that's what we did. After watching SpongeBob fail to make a good transition to the big screen, I was wondering how well this one would do. I don't know, but watching it on TV feels like a really good long single episode.
But here's the difference. The material is new. The jokes are almost continuous. There is a good plot. They don't try to show every character that ever appeared in the TV shows, in the film. Highly recommended.
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I loved the Dexter series: at the beginning I was a little perplexed by the settings and by the fact that the protagonist is supposed to be a very unusual anti-hero. But after a (very short) while it definitely got my interest: well acted (MC Hall is a very good actor, already noticed him in 6 feet under), original, well scripted (it's almost a 12-part movie), lots of humour (who'd have said that, huh?). You'll love it.
Rehdon
Posted by Rehdon on January 27, 2008 at 10:45 AM PST #
Dexter is simply brilliant, I'm envious of you - you've got two whole seasons to watch!
It's a very well acted and scripted show, and it's premise remains fresh. The relationships between characters are engrossing. Ultimately a compelling show, in my opinion one of the best on air at the moment.
Perhaps also see Pushing Daisies.
Posted by Jon Pritchard on January 28, 2008 at 03:39 AM PST #
My wife assures me that the Murder Club books are a great deal better than the TV series, which we've both (one of us familiar with the books, and one not) found a bit disappointing so far.
Posted by Calum Benson on January 29, 2008 at 06:24 PM PST #
Calum, how many episodes have you seen? The first
one (where they are establishing background) I
thought was totally off, but they got better after
that. At least for me. Did I mention Angie Harmon
was in it? ;-) Maybe that's swaying my judgment.
Posted by Rich Burridge on January 29, 2008 at 06:33 PM PST #
We missed the first one, have only seen the next two or three after that so far. I'm afraid Angie Harmon just looks like a man in drag to me, so that doesn't help much either... Aubrey Dollar's quite cute though :)
Posted by Calum Benson on January 31, 2008 at 07:27 AM PST #