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rose_griffes) wrote2012-04-09 04:45 pm
rose_griffes) wrote2012-04-09 04:45 pm
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ah, former TV loves: a rec, in case you missed it back then
It's been ages since I talked about the show Life here, but someone pointed out recently that Netflix has both seasons available for livestreaming. Then I checked and they're accessible again on hulu.com (for free!) as well.
So if you're in the US and you haven't watched it before, you might consider giving season one a try; it's only eleven episodes due to the writers' strike in 2007-2008. I would view it as sort of a mini-series. The show is definitely a procedural, but the emphasis is on the characters, two cops named Charlie Crews and Dani Reese. Plus there's a bigger puzzle going on with Crews's (and Reese's) history that gets addressed in each episode as well.
Need more information? Show premise and picspam here, plus an awesome fanvid here. (Slight language alert for both.)
Person of Interest fans who haven't seen Life yet, you should definitely consider it. They have a lot of similar themes. Both film on location in a major US city and use that backdrop well. (Life had better cinematography, although sunny LA gives it an advantage over gray NYC, too.) Both feature characters shaped by their pasts in inescapable ways. Both shows have Batman references! Oh, and both shows have a character with the last name Reese. Heh.
In Life's favor, it has Damian Lewis, Sarah Shahi and Adam Arkin, and they're pretty much unbeatable. Sorry, PoI cast, but it's true. Though at least part of that is that Life had better writing--dialogue in particular--since it was more character-based. I'll give PoI a point for having better cases of the week, so it probably balances out.
In conclusion, I miss theshow characters. *sadface*
So if you're in the US and you haven't watched it before, you might consider giving season one a try; it's only eleven episodes due to the writers' strike in 2007-2008. I would view it as sort of a mini-series. The show is definitely a procedural, but the emphasis is on the characters, two cops named Charlie Crews and Dani Reese. Plus there's a bigger puzzle going on with Crews's (and Reese's) history that gets addressed in each episode as well.
Need more information? Show premise and picspam here, plus an awesome fanvid here. (Slight language alert for both.)
Person of Interest fans who haven't seen Life yet, you should definitely consider it. They have a lot of similar themes. Both film on location in a major US city and use that backdrop well. (Life had better cinematography, although sunny LA gives it an advantage over gray NYC, too.) Both feature characters shaped by their pasts in inescapable ways. Both shows have Batman references! Oh, and both shows have a character with the last name Reese. Heh.
In Life's favor, it has Damian Lewis, Sarah Shahi and Adam Arkin, and they're pretty much unbeatable. Sorry, PoI cast, but it's true. Though at least part of that is that Life had better writing--dialogue in particular--since it was more character-based. I'll give PoI a point for having better cases of the week, so it probably balances out.
In conclusion, I miss the
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And well, you know how I feel POI.
As an aside - I'm currently also watching Missing.
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Missing! It's not great TV, but I'm really enjoying it. Too bad Becca Winstone quit the CIA ten years ago, otherwise I'd be writing crossover fic with her and Reese. Hee.
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Did you see the Shakespeare Retold with Lewis? A modern-day Much Ado about Nothing and he played Benedick. I'll admit--I find him more attractive as scary Reese with an American accent than sort-of-a-jerk Benedick with a goatee and English accent.
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X-over between POI & Missing - it could work. Would definitely like to see a match between Reese and Paul Winstone. hmmm - Sean Bean & Jim Caviezel.
But I shouldn't be thinking of new x-over ideas as I already have one POI crossover fic that I've been dragging my feet in trying to finish writing.