On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 9:40 PM, Kevin M. <[email protected]> wrote: Mild (not strong but mild) shades of EZ Streets, Homicide, and probably The Wire (if I'd ever watched the Wire, but I've heard stories). Casting director was either great at his/her job or very bad at it -- too soon to tell from the pilot. But I was interested in the story.
Not exactly a marketing tool for the city of Detroit. On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 3:43 PM, Adam Bowie <[email protected]> wrote: > I still can't get over the fact that both the leads are Londoners. I must > admit that I don't remember the British original of this, but I'm quite > enjoying it (Fox shows it in the UK, the same week as AMC). It has a little > way to go before I'm happy putting it in the same boat as Homicide, let > alone The Wire, but it's going well. > > It may not be a Detroit marketing tool, but I see that it's "Pure > Michigan" in the credits. I'm sure that there are healthy tax credits for > shooting in the city. > I have this on my DVR all fall, and just got around to finishing it off today in a binge while working at home due to illness (I had to buy an episode on amazon that my season pass somehow missed - probably I canceled it for a football game or something and forgot to record a sub). I liked it. It is not in the same league as The Wire or HLOS, and there were times I wished they would have just not cancelled Detroit 187, but it was good. It is so much better watching this kind of show in a binge - I did watch the first 2 episodes as singletons earlier in the fall, and tried but failed to watch the third because it was kind of hard to get into. Its tone is understated, its plot is cryptic, and it seems to assume its audience is thinking about the plot all week and ready to jump right back in, when in fact I could hardly remember having seen the previous episodes. Kevin commented on the casting originally - I thought it was noteworthy as well. Lots of really good actors, but none of them the kind of actors you (or, at least, I) would think of as leading actors. It was a show built on actors all of whom would be great as the third or fourth billed star of an elite drama. This is somewhat different than an ensemble show, which still has some clear star-quality actors in it even if they are team players. Again, I enjoyed their work, but I guess I am enough of a typical American TV watcher that I probably would have been hooked a little more by one or two alpha type actors in lead roles. It was not a commercial for Detroit, but it was kind of an obituary, or maybe a manifesto visually calling for corrupt officials and irresponsible corporate employers to get off their asses and do something to save a city that is decomposing into a sewer of its own filth (I don't really have the right to say that, but my father was a third generation Detroiter, and I was born in Ann Arbor). -- -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
