On 03/23/2014 09:38 AM, TurquoiseBee wrote:
*From:* Bhairitu <noozg...@sbcglobal.net>
*To:* FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
*Sent:* Sunday, March 23, 2014 5:24 PM
*Subject:* Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Violet and Daisy mini movie review
BTW, the second season of "Line of Duty", all episodes, is now
available in the US on HuluPlus. That's just a little over a month
after it played in the UK.
Now THAT is a good series. Compelling from start to finish, with
excellent characterization *and* plot. It is very, very, very rare
that a writer of crime / conspiracy plots can keep me hanging until
the very end of the series without having figured everything out, but
Jed Mercurio did. I think Keeley Hawes is already considered to have a
lock on a BAFTA nomination for her work in it, and Mercurio himself
will almost certainly be nominated again himself as writer/creator.
BTW, not to prolong my dumping on "The 100" but to explain further,
it's not that I dislike "Young Adult" movies and TV made from popular
YA novels as a whole. Yes, the "Twilight" series sucked dead dogs, but
I actually enjoyed many parts of the "Hunger Games" series. It's just
that this one was a retread of old 1960s SciFi ideas packaged so as to
appeal to a drugged-out, energy drink-swilling, not-terribly-bright YA
audience. I choose not to be one of them. :-)
So of these ideas need to be repackaged for younger audiences.
"Continuum" which began it's third season in Canada a couple weeks ago
and starts the 4th of April in the US doesn't really have that many new
ideas either but it is an interesting show.
I tried "Star Crossed" and the "Tomorrow People" on the CW and lasted
one episode of each. OTOH, I've been a "Supernatural" fan for years but
then it's target audience is older.
I watched two episodes of "Line of Duty" season 2 last night and will
watch a couple more tonight. Hulu didn't overload it with commercials
either with probably 4 breaks of a minute each. Some folks are dropping
their Hulu+ subscriptions because of increasing commercials. Hulu which
is otherwise free on the Internet may have just one episode a week of
"Line of Duty". They did that with "Bron Broen" but had all episode
available on Plus.
