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Watched the first episode of Demons.
Luke Rutherford (Christian Cooke) is an average college student with a cute best friend and tests to study for. He's handsome, still lives with his widowed mother, and wanders around the flat topless a lot. Enter his godfather Rupert Galvin (Philip Glenister) with a fake American accent (is this what the Brits think we sound like?) and some odd ideas about what his godson should be doing with his spare time (namely fighting demons). It seems Luke is the last in the Van Helsing line of uber-demon fighters. Luke is blandly skeptical and goes to a party with his best friend Ruby (Holly Grainger) who has a raging crush on Luke and is more than a little irritated at another girl confiscating him at the party, leading to a yelling match that gets Ruby attacked by a nasty thing that has been stalking Luke. Rupert and Luke arrive to save the day, but Ruby is later kidnapped in earnest by a more powerful ugly and Luke rushes off to save her without telling anyone, namely Rupert or Mina, a blind piano player who works as a secretary of sorts for the demon hunters. Rupert manages to arrive in time to keep Luke from getting himself annihilated and they save Ruby, who is furious that Luke shoots her with a plastic bullet to get to the demon.
The show is tripe, but it's enjoyable. Glenister has some AWFUL lines and I'm not sure how he gets them out without laughing half the time. Cooke is very, very pretty and while his facial expressions could use a little work, he can cry on cue and has a cute smile. My major issue with Luke was that he accepted his "destiny" with little or no surprise. He has a sort of "oh well, whatever" attitude when he realizes what's going on. Maybe he's always wanted to be Buffy. Ruby was my favorite though. She's cute and plucky and is going to be severely heartbroken by the inevitable denseness of her extremely handsome best friend. She and Mina automatically hate each other, prelude to the love triangle over the clueless guy. Hopefully the next episode will be better as the whole "call to the fight" part of the story is out of the way. Next weeks looks like an actual cohesive plot line.
Luke Rutherford (Christian Cooke) is an average college student with a cute best friend and tests to study for. He's handsome, still lives with his widowed mother, and wanders around the flat topless a lot. Enter his godfather Rupert Galvin (Philip Glenister) with a fake American accent (is this what the Brits think we sound like?) and some odd ideas about what his godson should be doing with his spare time (namely fighting demons). It seems Luke is the last in the Van Helsing line of uber-demon fighters. Luke is blandly skeptical and goes to a party with his best friend Ruby (Holly Grainger) who has a raging crush on Luke and is more than a little irritated at another girl confiscating him at the party, leading to a yelling match that gets Ruby attacked by a nasty thing that has been stalking Luke. Rupert and Luke arrive to save the day, but Ruby is later kidnapped in earnest by a more powerful ugly and Luke rushes off to save her without telling anyone, namely Rupert or Mina, a blind piano player who works as a secretary of sorts for the demon hunters. Rupert manages to arrive in time to keep Luke from getting himself annihilated and they save Ruby, who is furious that Luke shoots her with a plastic bullet to get to the demon.
The show is tripe, but it's enjoyable. Glenister has some AWFUL lines and I'm not sure how he gets them out without laughing half the time. Cooke is very, very pretty and while his facial expressions could use a little work, he can cry on cue and has a cute smile. My major issue with Luke was that he accepted his "destiny" with little or no surprise. He has a sort of "oh well, whatever" attitude when he realizes what's going on. Maybe he's always wanted to be Buffy. Ruby was my favorite though. She's cute and plucky and is going to be severely heartbroken by the inevitable denseness of her extremely handsome best friend. She and Mina automatically hate each other, prelude to the love triangle over the clueless guy. Hopefully the next episode will be better as the whole "call to the fight" part of the story is out of the way. Next weeks looks like an actual cohesive plot line.