Yeah, a lot of stage setting going on - I remember thinking that if they can get that out of the way in a few eps and get into real story-telling, it could be worth watching. I do like the lead character. And Drew Carey's transvestite older brother!

It was fun seeing Holland and Ethan though.

Also, as I said in Natter, at first it bugged that a guy from up north would know what the neutral ground is and it made me feel like it was just more "Let's mention voodoo and gumbo" so I was really glad that there actually was a reason for it.

And Drew Carey's transvestite older brother!

wha? How did I miss that? I mean, I was unpacking, but whoa!

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Oh, I see. He wasn't a transvestite in the show, sorry, got confused for a sec.

I liked a lot of the K-ville concept and the actors, but the writing was really wooden, plus I got a little dizzy from all the anvils hitting my head. As you say, though, it is the pilot. The one thing that distracted me was the accents, or the lack thereof. I suppose I'd rather have no accents than gratingly bad Southern accents. I have trouble with The Closer because her accent is so wrong. Still, the accent of people raised in southern Louisiana is quite distinctive. It's really hard to believe that whats-his-face the ex-con could lose his in two years.

Hee. I could tell you thought there was something must more interesting going on than was the actual case.

Isn't it a little hard to believe that he'd escaped from jail, been in the army and left to become a copy in that same timeframe?

MI-5 season 5 region 1 dvds coming out January 8th. . . and it's spendy as hell.

MI-5 is a great example of a show that's priced its dvds so high that I eventually stopped wanting them, and the show itself pretty much dropped off my radar as well.

Lack of accents didn't bother me. I've heard as thick as my grandaddy's to as generic southern as me and K. There're only a few words that will trip me up, most famously amongst my friends "quarter" and "yesterday"