The lost series

I miss:

The knock

Crow road:

Prentice: It all started the day my Grandmother exploded.

The Lake:

Jackie: Maggie, I need your help. Everybody goes into the lake and comes out different.
Maggie: You sure got that right honey.

Cold Lazarus

Karaoke

Murder one:

Jimmy Wyler: Do you believe in redemption, Mr. White?
White: As long as it doesn't require funeral arrangements.

Northern exposure:

Chris Stevens: There's a dark side to each and every human soul. We wish we were Obi-Wan Kenobi, and for the most part we are, but there's a little Darth Vader in all of us. Thing is, this ain't no either-or proposition. We're talking about dialectics, the good and the bad merging into us. You can run but you can't hide. My experience? Face the darkness. Stare it down. Own it. As brother Nietzsche said, being human is a complicated gig. So give that ol' dark night of the soul a hug. Howl the eternal yes!

Maurice Minnifield: I know black people. I've been around black people, and I know how they talk. The say "thang" instead of "thing." They say "ax," "I ax you this, brother, I ax you that." Now, you don't say "ax." Neither does Colin Powell and that, that Denzel fellow

Hill street blues

M*A*S*H:

Hawkeye: What a unique device, the human tush. An architectural wonder, one of a kind... actually two of a kind. Designed to support our weight for a lifetime of sitting it also has the subtlety to do the samba. And when attached to certain members of the female species at a time when light summer dresses are worn can cause some of us to drive our cars straight up a lamppost.

Dynasty:

D.A. Jake Dunham: Where did you meet?
Steven Daniel Carrington #1: We were at a party.
D.A. Jake Dunham: What kind of a party?
Steven Daniel Carrington #1: I - I don't understand the question.
D.A. Jake Dunham: Well, was it a gay party? Gay, not as in happy, but as in homosexual.
[Everyone laughs uproariously]
D.A. Jake Dunham: The intent of the question was not to amuse! The intent was to get a direct answer from the witness!
Steven Daniel Carrington #1: No! It was not a GAY party. It was a reception after an art opening.

I rest my case. For now..............

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The Grid

Looks like terrorists never go out of fashion these days. Turners channel TNT delivers the mini-series (six episodes) The Grid, soon to air in Norway i think. I have only seen the pilot yet but it looks prommising. The casting is nice and thou the storyformula is ancient like the woods it works out nicely.

Offcourse there are things that can ruin fictions like this. There's no doubt that the Grid have more than a few similarities with Fox's 24. Both in editing, graphics, music and story. Since both storylines happen in the same spheres (terror vs. counter-terror/the dark east vs. the white west) we can accept it. But copying music and graphics(+ sounds)? But then again a six epsiode mini might be more eatable. 24 are usually interesting to the point that the story-line evolves through too many episodes. You kinda get the point after a few episodes, and thou its got a very aesthetically structured discourse and a nice narrative one really wants it to end after about twelve or thirteen episodes.

Anyway there is more; All the usual agencies are offcourse present, NSA, CIA, MI5, MI6 and FBI so far. And they are once again, like they usualy are, trying to join forces and fight the evil together. As we know the different agencies can't cooperate. Besides these minor flaws and some who are not mentioned here the serie looks very good. A Fox production for TNT with the help from BBC. Hmmm, must be good. Almost anything BBC touches is worth to spend some time on....

So far the flaws aren't irritating enough to drop it. 24 had the tendency to have recurrent irritating small details in the form of product placement. Like in season four where the agents, the bad guys, the good guys and the ordinary tom, dick and harry all had the same cell phone. With the same colour. My god..............like John Wayne in a western with a wrist-watch.......
Well, enough said....... Check out the Grid - international terror is coming to a tv-set near you...........and like always; america is a strange land --> http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0389635/alternateversions

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spacecast.com/??

Hmmm, sometimes everything just works out nice. I was in bad need of a new serie when Charlie Jade appeared. And who has ever heard of the canadian Spacecast channel? Anyway the channel seems to have tons of new and old series. Especially the rerun-list is impressive.

Well then, back to Charlie Jade (as quoted by Tvtome);

Charlie Jade is a rogue private detective in a world dominated by greedy multinational corporations. When Charlie sees the corpse of a beautiful young woman he realizes she embodies the impossible: she has no identity, something inconceivable in Charlie's world.

While tracking her suspected killer, the trail leads Charlie to a secret desert facility. A massive explosion propels him into a parallel universe, our own chaotic twenty-first century world where he is both baffled by its differences and seduced by its similarities. Charlie is soon drawn into a conflict that not only involves his home universe and the one he now inhabits but also includes another, a pristine pacifist universe with unsuspected terror at its heart.

I havent plunged to deep into the serie yet, therefore i'm not sure i will recommend it. But so far (half way in episode two (pilot?) titled The Big bang) it looks very promissing. Charlie Jade is filmed in Cape Town, South Africa. And the visual aestethics is marked by a nice dark setting and a somewhat fast pased intercutting of images. A rustic low-budgett sci-fi isnt something one want to miss and this might be the underground serie which saves the week. I'll let you know.....

time waits for no man.......gotta run.........

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Televisuality revisited

What can i say.........i cannot deny the fact that i watch way too much television. But sometimes it feels like an ulser or some other strange diseas is pressing beacause there never seems to be enough time to watch all the shows. At the time being some of my favorite shows have been cancelled or delayed due to production or unknown network reasons.

While awaiting the final season of Sopranos (sometime in 2006), season three of The L word (season two finished last week), the painful wait for the fifth and last season of the fantastic and intriguing Six feet under, there are some adequate alternatives:

Like NBC's Revelations which seems to have been cancelled after just six episodes for some odd reason. Like the show said; Omnium finis imminet (the end is here lol). Anyway to awake interest;

Harvard professor Dr. Richard Massey, an astrophysicist whose certainty that all worldly events can be explained by Science, is challenged by a nun, Sister Josepha Montafiore , who leads him on a journey through the unfamiliar world of faith. Drawn together by personal tragedy, these unlikely partners -- one who worships God and one who worships Science -- are propelled into a deepening mystery, finding evidence that the world, as predicted by The Book of Revelation, has reached The End of Days. The time of miracles is once again at hand -- both Heaven sent, and sent from Hell. Satanist Isaiah Haden has answered the calling of his “Lord” to make certain the Armies of Darkness will triumph in the apocalyptic battle to come.

Other series i recommend includes ABC's announced 25 epsiode series Lost (thou the timstretching strategic of the soapopera pushes the limits for acceptable plot-progression. The circulative repetitive strategies verges now extremly close to unlimited boredom) which by now seems to have been stretched to 26 episodes. NBC's Medium also have some moments. But Medium seems to have some episodes which is way to boring frankly said. And others are too gory. For those who cannot stay away from hospital/medical dramas i recommend FOX's bittersweet, ironic drama House M.D starring Huge Laurie. Be warned thou that the first episodes are very slow and somewhat unintersting. But it picks up after that. Superintelligent doctors who can beat that?

Well, two extremly good comedies surpasses House and Medium by miles;

Curb your enthusiasm and Arrested development.

Other than that we are closing in on the tvseries limbo soon. The summer is the worst time for tv fanatics............

But then again; why did we buy those DVD players? Remember to buy the fantastic The Lakes........

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