Netflix is offering a sneak preview disc of the first episode of Californication to its subscribers. It'll be available starting July 24--get it into your queue early!
Showing posts with label Previews. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Previews. Show all posts
Friday, July 6, 2007
Californication Preview
Netflix is offering a sneak preview disc of the first episode of Californication to its subscribers. It'll be available starting July 24--get it into your queue early!
Sunday, June 17, 2007
Moonlight—Early Thoughts
Moonlight is a new show for CBS, premiering this fall, about a vampire private investigator. I have my doubts about this one. First, I loved (deeply) and lost (painfully) a show about a vampire private investigator (Angel), and nothing will ever compare. It just won't. The fact David Greenwalt is on board with Moonlight is either good or painfully ironic.
From the video clips, this show looks rather nice. Alex O'Loughlin, an Aussie actor, is pretty enough as Mick St. John, our vampire PI. The cinematography looks nice, although several of the cityscapes, and the way they're being used, is a bit too much like Angel for my immediate comfort. My biggest problem with this show, though, comes from the script excerpts I ran across a few days ago. The scenes in question are, in my opinion, bland and cliche-driven. Nothing about them struck me as particularly original or compelling.
Realizing this might not be a fair representation of the final show, I'll give this one a shot, if only because of my love for vampires in general, and because Greenwalt has a hand in it. Moonlight will be airing Friday nights at 9 Eastern on CBS.
Check out the preview clip here: Moonlight
Note: Must have popups enabled, and there's a brief ad right before the clip.
From the video clips, this show looks rather nice. Alex O'Loughlin, an Aussie actor, is pretty enough as Mick St. John, our vampire PI. The cinematography looks nice, although several of the cityscapes, and the way they're being used, is a bit too much like Angel for my immediate comfort. My biggest problem with this show, though, comes from the script excerpts I ran across a few days ago. The scenes in question are, in my opinion, bland and cliche-driven. Nothing about them struck me as particularly original or compelling.
Realizing this might not be a fair representation of the final show, I'll give this one a shot, if only because of my love for vampires in general, and because Greenwalt has a hand in it. Moonlight will be airing Friday nights at 9 Eastern on CBS.
Check out the preview clip here: Moonlight
Note: Must have popups enabled, and there's a brief ad right before the clip.
Sunday, February 4, 2007
Preview—The Black Donnellys
The pilot episode of this mid-season NBC series was made available on the Netflix-exclusive Heroes Season Summary DVD. The show was created by Paul Haggis and Bobby Moresco (Crash
, Million Dollar Baby).
The Black Donnellys tells the story of the four Donnelly brothers and how they become involved in organized crime in New York City, and has a strongly cinematic look and feel. To me, it felt a little like a Guy Ritchie movie, with its juxtaposition of wry humor and brutal violence. The writing is good, but I found the voice-over narration approach to be distracting in places, mostly because it wasn't clear to me why Joey was narrating. He didn't seem to be intimately involved enough in the events he was discussing to serve as narrator--unless he's supposed to be an untrustworthy narrator, and then we get into a whole new kettle of fish. Then again, I have a prejudice against voice over, especially in pilots.
In any case, this pilot episode was solid, well-produced and well-acted, with a killer soundtrack (although what's with the ubiquitousness of Snow Patrol lately?).
The Black Donnellys premieres this spring on NBC.
http://www.nbc.com/NBC_First_Look/shows/donnellys/index.shtml
http://www.nbc.com/The_Black_Donnellys/
, Million Dollar Baby).The Black Donnellys tells the story of the four Donnelly brothers and how they become involved in organized crime in New York City, and has a strongly cinematic look and feel. To me, it felt a little like a Guy Ritchie movie, with its juxtaposition of wry humor and brutal violence. The writing is good, but I found the voice-over narration approach to be distracting in places, mostly because it wasn't clear to me why Joey was narrating. He didn't seem to be intimately involved enough in the events he was discussing to serve as narrator--unless he's supposed to be an untrustworthy narrator, and then we get into a whole new kettle of fish. Then again, I have a prejudice against voice over, especially in pilots.
In any case, this pilot episode was solid, well-produced and well-acted, with a killer soundtrack (although what's with the ubiquitousness of Snow Patrol lately?).
The Black Donnellys premieres this spring on NBC.
http://www.nbc.com/NBC_First_Look/shows/donnellys/index.shtml
http://www.nbc.com/The_Black_Donnellys/
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