'Just Rewards (2)'
This thread is for procedural TV, shows where the primary idea is to figure out the case. [NAFDA]
I always liked the Beckett/Castle interactions. Thought it at its best with banter and him expasperating her and she outcompeting him.
POssibly related: I mildly rec Mysteries of Laura. Fun, nothing special but fun. OK comedy, OK mysteries, really good acting.
So Gracepoint. Seriously?
Right. Let's make it an even more depressing ending without really changing anything else.
Had you seen Broadchurch, msbelle?
I wish I hadn't caught only the very last episode of Broadchurch, because then I could watch it from the beginning without knowing the ending, and I could have watched Gracepoint the same way.
I think the twist(s) detracted from the ending and diluted the impact. Trying to think how I'd feel if I didn't have the Broadchurch info. I'm not sure, and I guess we can't really do a compare and contrast here.
In other, related news -- Series 2 of Broadchurch is supposed to start airing in January if my brief googling is true. Cool.
More depressing?
I had not seen Broadchurch.
I think it's cute too, TB. Kind of in a retro way, but I would have watched "White Collar" when I was thirteen too so I mean that in a fond way.(of course, in those days, I wouldn't have been quite comfotrable with that whole "Pretty. Want." feeling I have about Bomer sometimes, nor quite understood why it was a lost cause) Maybe Critics are too jaded, or always looking for that decade-defining show, which "Laura" clearly is not, but I don't feel like my time is defiled by looking at it or anything
I stopped watching Gracepoint about four eps in because of time and it just wasn't as good as Broadchurch. But I watched the final ep and I liked the culprit(s) better, somehow. And of course, if you're going to remake a show and change the villain, why would you try to make it less horrible at the reveal? It was going to have to be on an equal level of horrible, except now a good portion of their audience has already seen that Horrible, so you need a new one, of equal or greater value. Or really great writers to make the intrigue even greater in some Machiavellian way. Like Detective Miller having done it.
Fucking Millers.
What did you think of the ending, msbelle? Did you have anyone picked as the killer? Did you feel like it was out of left field?
Out of left field, the meeting stuff anyway. The actual killer part I had thought since ep 1 or 2.
Yeah, I was thinking I would have had the same feeling. Except I'm not sure whether I would have had him pegged him early.