'Serenity'
A topic for the discussion of Doctor Who, Arrow, and The Flash. Beware possible invasions of iZombie, Sleepy Hollow, or pretty much any other "genre" (read: sci fi, superhero, or fantasy) show that captures our fancy. Expect adult content and discussion of the Big Gay Sex.
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I don't think it was bad direction--I think it was character choices (made by whoever) that might not have been the best idea. But I can totally buy the character we saw being plausible, especially given her past. Just, not the most appealing for a series lead.
I was always pissed at the people who blamed it on her, or who are now "well, she learnt to act." If you haven't seen her in other shit, do some research before going off on her.
there was this BBC show in which Anna Torv had a pretty big role
Mistresses, right? She played the poised lesbian the commitment-phobic one of the group falls for, IIRC. Orla Brady, who was one of the four friends in the series (the one who cheats on the husband played by the dishy actor who was Zafar from Spooks), then showed up as Walter's wife in flashbacks, which made me laugh. British TV actor pool is almost as tiny as the Vancouver TV actor pool. (ETA: err. Except I just remembered Torv is not British. She's Australian, I think?)
I really liked Torv right from the start, but yeah, she really blossomed once the storyline started revolving around her instead of her dead partner.
Yes Vonnie! I have not yet seen Season 2, but I ate it up like popcorn one weekend a couple of months back.
Yeah, Torv is Australian.
And I think it took a while for the writers to figure out the characters in the beginning. Peter and Broyles, for instance, are very different in the pilot than who they are just a few episodes later. They dropped the antagonism with Olivia pretty quickly, if I recall.
I ate it up like popcorn one weekend a couple of months back.
That series was a good trashy fun. With pretty good actors despite the melodramatic plots. I kinda started having rage blackouts about Sarah Parrish's character though, because of the GROSS ETHICAL BREACH OMG. I did not know there was a season 2! Hmmm.
I agree. Her plot was a watch from the hall from me. I just couldn't take it. There is not one thing she did right the whole time.
In searching around for the Tribe, I found an entirely different Brit series called Tribe. This one features, Bruce Parry, a rather whingy fellow, traveling around the world and living with various tribal people for a month.
Once I'd gotten the episode and realized it was not the post-apocalyptic genre stuff I'd been looking for, I made to turn it off, but ended up being completely sucked into Barry's month with the Nenet. The Nenet are reindeer herders above the Arctic Circle. Absolutely riveting.
Frankly, how any person could survive on the tundra, much less prefer it to their warm and cozy houses in town, strikes me as fairly scifi-y.
::pulling a warm blanket and my nice warm pup closer::.
I was yelling at the TV to have her de- , erm, whatever is the equivalent of "defrocked" or "disbarred" for doctors. Sarah Parrish was great as usual, but the character was a disaster.
Afterward, as a palate cleanser, I had to rewatch the Sarah Parrish/Damien Lewis version of "Much Ado About Nothing." Man, I flove that series.
Er, topic. OLIVIA PWNS ALL. And I think they missed a golden opportunity by not having Fauxlivia interact with Ella, which probably would have humanized her 100x more than by having her do the sexytimes with Peter.
who here is watching the UK series, Misfits?
ME!!