I admit that The River was pretty lame, but I still liked the spirit of it. It reminded me of the old Friday the 13th series a little bit, except instead of a new haunted antique each week, it was a (cheesy) piece of folklore. Then they tried to get all Lost-y and failed.
Husband and I are American, but longtime fans of British tv. We both grew up watching Monty Python, Fawlty Towers, and Red Dwarf. He tuned in for Tom Baker as the fourth Doctor back in those days, and I stayed up past my bedtime to watch The Young Ones on Mtv with my older brothers. In the early days of grad school, we didn't have cable, so we even watched a lot of Are You Being Served? on PBS. :D
Our love of the British stuff doesn't make us hate American tv though. I'm sure there's plenty of not-so-great tv over the pond, too. I find it interesting how different the humor can be from show to show, too, even within the same culture. And pacing! That's where American shows often fail, I think. We love how concise the six episode arcs can be with the British shows, for example. (Luther! We still need to watch the second season of that one of these days.)
We don't have BBC America, so we get most of our imports on DVD or we stream them. We have a young kid and a new house that we're dealing with, so we didn't have our streaming set up for many months -- that's when we ended up watching all that dreck last fall. The night that we watched Sherlock was the night we finally dusted off our PS3 so we could access Netflix again.
We're savoring Sherlock since there's not much of it. We'll keep an eye out for Wallander, too -- thanks for the recommendation!
Yeah. Wallander is one of those things that might keep you occupied while waiting for Sherlock. But like with Sherlock, each season is three good long eps, so there are three seasons of Wallander ( I, II, and III) but nine eps. Rather depressing =(
Husband and I are American, but longtime fans of British tv. We both grew up watching Monty Python, Fawlty Towers, and Red Dwarf. He tuned in for Tom Baker as the fourth Doctor back in those days, and I stayed up past my bedtime to watch The Young Ones on Mtv with my older brothers. In the early days of grad school, we didn't have cable, so we even watched a lot of Are You Being Served? on PBS. :D
Our love of the British stuff doesn't make us hate American tv though. I'm sure there's plenty of not-so-great tv over the pond, too. I find it interesting how different the humor can be from show to show, too, even within the same culture. And pacing! That's where American shows often fail, I think. We love how concise the six episode arcs can be with the British shows, for example. (Luther! We still need to watch the second season of that one of these days.)
We don't have BBC America, so we get most of our imports on DVD or we stream them. We have a young kid and a new house that we're dealing with, so we didn't have our streaming set up for many months -- that's when we ended up watching all that dreck last fall. The night that we watched Sherlock was the night we finally dusted off our PS3 so we could access Netflix again.
We're savoring Sherlock since there's not much of it. We'll keep an eye out for Wallander, too -- thanks for the recommendation!
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