On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 4:19 PM, PGage <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 12:47 PM, Dave Sikula <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Just curious. I bailed out of "Damages" after season 1 because I just >> couldn't take all the crazy plot twists. From your description, it >> sounds like that became their "gimmick" (for lack of a better term), >> and I'm wondering if that is indeed the case. >> > > I'm not sure if I would call their gimmick (or signature) "crazy plot > twists" (though they do have those). I think their gimmick is starting and > ending episodes with brief flashes of what will eventually be the ultimate > (or penultimate) episode, but which at first either do not make any sense, > or are calculated to give the "wrong" impression. The main body of each > episode gradually provides more information about that last episode, and > the flashes themselves gradually open up and provide more information, so > that by the end the viewer has a context for making sense of what they have > been seeing all season. The body of the episodes have plot twists, and the > meaning of the flashes twist or shift as the show progresses. >
This show only got worse in episode 3 (which I just watched). The tvbythenumbers guys have written the obit, though it will take a while to get the body in the ground: http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2012/01/18/nbc-the-firm-is-certain-to-be-canceled-but-how-long-will-it-stay-on-the-air/116647/ "After a weak start on a Sunday, *The Firm<http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/tag/the-firm-ratings/> * ratings fell even further in its Thursday regular time slot premiere. Its 1.0 adults 18-49 rating<http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2011/09/06/updated-numbers-101-whats-a-tv-rating-and-who-is-it-dating/102756/>marks it as certain to be canceled, even on the train wreck that is NBC primetime. But because Sony made NBC a super cheap deal for all 22 episodes of *The Firm <http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/tag/the-firm-ratings/>*, and NBC isn't likely to have good (if any) alternatives for its Thursday time slot, it may stay on the schedule this season for quite some time. What's certain is that by the end of this season it will be canceled and not return to NBC (it's future outside the US isn't something I'm concerned with). No matter how long it takes, the cancellation bear<http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2011/09/11/the-cancellation-bear-why-relative-ratings-matter-for-your-favorite-tv-shows/103274/>will be waiting." -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
