Anybody familiar with this show? What do you think of it? I rented the premier of it yesterday, and found it watchable, if not nearly as interesting as I'd hoped it would be. I'm not sure if I'll bother renting the rest of the season or not.
How does this show progress? What are the weekly plots like? Do the characters develop much?
I thought that it was interesting that a lot of the funnier, more satisfying parts, as well as the parts that answered questions I had, were all in the deleted scenes section of the DVD. Talk about leaving your best material on the cutting room floor.
Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :
I hear them talk about this show over and over on NPR. They just don't get tired of talking about it.
But I've never seen any of it. Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
Really? On which show? I listen to NPR all the time, and don't recall ever having heard about it before. What do they generally say about it?
Posted by Taalcon (Member # 839) on :
I actually like it a lot. The show was originally created by Bryan Fuller, the co-creator of WONDERFALLS - he did, however, as I understand, leave ehavy duties on the show early in the season.
The Pilot was a good introduction, but I think the show does really progress. The first season is a lot about Georgia coping with her 'early end', as well as her family in the wake of things. Delores Herbig (as in "Her Big Brown Eyes") becomes more of a sympathetic/pathetic character who takes upon herself the responsibility of looking out for Georgia's wellbeing, even when she herself has major emotional issues.
And then there are the Assignments. Through the course of the season, we found out many elements of the other Reapers' backstories, who they were before they died. One of the first set of Reapers leaves the show after the first few, and another takes her place.
Georgia has to deal with the fact that just as things seem to be working out for her, something happens to take it away.
It's all poigniant, funny, and very endearing. Mandy Patinkin's 'Rube' is absolutely brilliant.
[ August 23, 2004, 12:04 PM: Message edited by: Taalcon ]
Posted by Lupus (Member # 6516) on :
I watched the first season of the show and I enjoyed it. I did not think it was an amazing show...but it was quirky and amusing. I no longer have showtime, so I have not scene any of the second season...but I will likely rent the DVD's from netflix once they come out. I don't think the show is worth getting showtime if you don't already have it...but if you have showtime it is worth tuning into (at least the first season was...I have not seen the second season, so I can't comment on it.)
Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :
It's one of the shows that I hear in the afternoon. Probably Fresh Air.
I've probably gotten really lucky and just happened to be listening every time they talk about it. It's like how I always see part of the same episode of SG-1. It's a knack.
Posted by the master (Member # 6788) on :
I just added it to our netflix rental queue over the weekend. How very coincidental.
I don't know anything about it, but the same people who recommended Sex and the City and Alias recommended it. They have good taste.
Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
Well, that explains it. I love Fresh Air, but I don't get to hear it as often as I'd like.
Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
Is that you celia?
Posted by the master (Member # 6788) on :
no, it's the other person who'd tie an educational accomplishment to a doctor who reference and then not bother to tell anyone who she was. Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
I thought as much.
If you'd really wanted to be subtle, though, you'd have taken the name "Roger Delgado". Then you and I would probably have been the only people who got it.
Posted by the master (Member # 6788) on :
i'll try to be more subtle next time. actually, i could manage to squeeze more references in if i do it just right.
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