TV Reviews
"Nine Lives of Chloe King"
(My brain keeps wanting to say Chloe Chant.)
The concept has promise. I liken it to Veronica Mars or Joan of Arcadia. I dunno about the whole cat thing. I'd almost rather it was werewolf or vampire. Why invent something new if it's just sort of going to be the same old thing? But that aside, my real issue was with the delivery of snarky, funny lines. They'd go by and I'd be like.. well, that could have been snarky and/or funny, but it wasn't. Why wasn't it? The actors' fault? But it happened to more than one actor. And to my relatively untrained eye, they seemed to be okay actors for the rest of the time. Is it just mediocre acting and I can't tell it's not very good? Or is it the director's fault?
Those lines just fell flat. Or, more like.. blended in with all the other, less interesting lines.
For anyone who watched it, then particularly the scene where the guy has her up against the wall in the hall at school. She says some snarky things that.. aren't. And then the other guy outside the shop when he talks about indulging in his headwear fetish. He kinda mumbled that one so you nearly miss it. (I had to rewind.)
"Teen Wolf"
Better than Chloe King. But not much like the movies at all. They kept two names, "Scott", and "Stiles". But changed Scott's last name, randomly. And other than two names, a teenage werewolf, and a high school sport, it bears no resemblance to the movies. One of the best, most interesting things about the movies, I thought, was that his lycanthropy was inherited.
While the show is not entirely dark, it's not a comedy either. So the tone isn't even quite right to match the movies.
I do find that the sport is lacrosse to be interesting. Much better than wrestling, which is just gross! And basketball, which seems to be all about sweat.
"Switched at Birth"
While watching Chloe King, I saw an ad which mentioned Marlee Matlin, so, since my Tivo has been pretty empty lately, I got a season pass for this one. And it turns out to be more interesting than I thought.
Basically, take a Lifetime movie about babies switched in the hospital (really, pick any one of those you want), and then they condense that down into the first five minutes, and go on from there. The aftermath. The figuring things out. The readjustment of the families. You know, the interesting stuff. And it turns out one of the kids is Deaf, so that just makes it extra interesting to me. And so far, from what I can tell, they're doing everything right there.
I haven't even finished watching the first episode and had to come on here to tell you guys.
So..
Do Watch: Teen Wolf (though it has a masculine vibe), Switched at Birth (though it has no sf/f element)
Don't Bother: Nine Lives of Chloe King (Unless you're the sort to watch and hope it gets better)
Coming up soon: Expedition Impossible (reality show) and new episodes of Futurama and Leverage.
And Torchwood? Maybe? Was that July?
Anything else new I should check out?
(My brain keeps wanting to say Chloe Chant.)
The concept has promise. I liken it to Veronica Mars or Joan of Arcadia. I dunno about the whole cat thing. I'd almost rather it was werewolf or vampire. Why invent something new if it's just sort of going to be the same old thing? But that aside, my real issue was with the delivery of snarky, funny lines. They'd go by and I'd be like.. well, that could have been snarky and/or funny, but it wasn't. Why wasn't it? The actors' fault? But it happened to more than one actor. And to my relatively untrained eye, they seemed to be okay actors for the rest of the time. Is it just mediocre acting and I can't tell it's not very good? Or is it the director's fault?
Those lines just fell flat. Or, more like.. blended in with all the other, less interesting lines.
For anyone who watched it, then particularly the scene where the guy has her up against the wall in the hall at school. She says some snarky things that.. aren't. And then the other guy outside the shop when he talks about indulging in his headwear fetish. He kinda mumbled that one so you nearly miss it. (I had to rewind.)
"Teen Wolf"
Better than Chloe King. But not much like the movies at all. They kept two names, "Scott", and "Stiles". But changed Scott's last name, randomly. And other than two names, a teenage werewolf, and a high school sport, it bears no resemblance to the movies. One of the best, most interesting things about the movies, I thought, was that his lycanthropy was inherited.
While the show is not entirely dark, it's not a comedy either. So the tone isn't even quite right to match the movies.
I do find that the sport is lacrosse to be interesting. Much better than wrestling, which is just gross! And basketball, which seems to be all about sweat.
"Switched at Birth"
While watching Chloe King, I saw an ad which mentioned Marlee Matlin, so, since my Tivo has been pretty empty lately, I got a season pass for this one. And it turns out to be more interesting than I thought.
Basically, take a Lifetime movie about babies switched in the hospital (really, pick any one of those you want), and then they condense that down into the first five minutes, and go on from there. The aftermath. The figuring things out. The readjustment of the families. You know, the interesting stuff. And it turns out one of the kids is Deaf, so that just makes it extra interesting to me. And so far, from what I can tell, they're doing everything right there.
I haven't even finished watching the first episode and had to come on here to tell you guys.
So..
Do Watch: Teen Wolf (though it has a masculine vibe), Switched at Birth (though it has no sf/f element)
Don't Bother: Nine Lives of Chloe King (Unless you're the sort to watch and hope it gets better)
Coming up soon: Expedition Impossible (reality show) and new episodes of Futurama and Leverage.
And Torchwood? Maybe? Was that July?
Anything else new I should check out?