Last night's TV (WiTB and Heroes)
Wire in the Blood 5-3 The Names of Angels
I remembered the episode title all on my own. Of course, I'm not sure what the title means (the women who die?). Sure, there was a running theme of identity: Jack not wanting to be David but hating Jack, the serial killer taking on the identity of the men who sacked him and giving his victims the identity of other victims. What got to me was that he got away. Here's one case where Alec and her team get people in based on the evidence, let them go when there is none, and their suspects get legal representation and the law and I are satisfied and entirely on-side, and he gets away! Bah!
Some of the dialogue was ropey, but they got Tony's patter down well. Apart from being a mother who finds what these murderers do sick (and it is, obviously) and being a sounding stone for Tony, Alex seems rather non-existant as a character. After thinking about it a bit more, I'd add she has the role of issueing orders to her sargeants and occasionally expositing - it isn't too bad, but still a bit unnecessary.
However, it's the visuals that really, really worked, whatever they've done to the colouring and lighting, it catches the chill grey of Bradfield. The night-time shots were simply beautiful, and just lots of eye-catching moments that nailed the dread and horror of what was happening. I was cowering behind a cushion the most for Jack's self-harming, the rapes and murders of young women being par for the course in Bradfield.
Switched over to Heroes during the ads - I normally compare it with Lost (the comparison flatters Heroes), but I was reminded more of Alias - the way that, in reviewing it, iconic moments had seared themselves on my brain. Both shows have a cinematic feel.
I caught the last few minutes of 'Heroes Unmasked', and apart from the weirdness of hearing the American accents of the actors playing non-American characters, was amused by the claim that they were bringing an hour of cinema-like TV to the silver screen, because, as the Beeb's lack of ads reveals, it's 40 minutes - if not less. I also amused myself - and I needed to cheer myself up after the impressive, creepy gloom that is WITB - by wondering if JJ is planning to kidnap Tim Kring, tie him to a chair with rope and yell 'How? How do you do it?' at him all night, or if he keeps dropping casual questions about Kring's methods to Greg Grunberg. And then I remind myself that I've only seen the first half or so of the first season, the proof of whether Heroes can maintain will be in the next season and the one after that...
I remembered the episode title all on my own. Of course, I'm not sure what the title means (the women who die?). Sure, there was a running theme of identity: Jack not wanting to be David but hating Jack, the serial killer taking on the identity of the men who sacked him and giving his victims the identity of other victims. What got to me was that he got away. Here's one case where Alec and her team get people in based on the evidence, let them go when there is none, and their suspects get legal representation and the law and I are satisfied and entirely on-side, and he gets away! Bah!
Some of the dialogue was ropey, but they got Tony's patter down well. Apart from being a mother who finds what these murderers do sick (and it is, obviously) and being a sounding stone for Tony, Alex seems rather non-existant as a character. After thinking about it a bit more, I'd add she has the role of issueing orders to her sargeants and occasionally expositing - it isn't too bad, but still a bit unnecessary.
However, it's the visuals that really, really worked, whatever they've done to the colouring and lighting, it catches the chill grey of Bradfield. The night-time shots were simply beautiful, and just lots of eye-catching moments that nailed the dread and horror of what was happening. I was cowering behind a cushion the most for Jack's self-harming, the rapes and murders of young women being par for the course in Bradfield.
Switched over to Heroes during the ads - I normally compare it with Lost (the comparison flatters Heroes), but I was reminded more of Alias - the way that, in reviewing it, iconic moments had seared themselves on my brain. Both shows have a cinematic feel.
I caught the last few minutes of 'Heroes Unmasked', and apart from the weirdness of hearing the American accents of the actors playing non-American characters, was amused by the claim that they were bringing an hour of cinema-like TV to the silver screen, because, as the Beeb's lack of ads reveals, it's 40 minutes - if not less. I also amused myself - and I needed to cheer myself up after the impressive, creepy gloom that is WITB - by wondering if JJ is planning to kidnap Tim Kring, tie him to a chair with rope and yell 'How? How do you do it?' at him all night, or if he keeps dropping casual questions about Kring's methods to Greg Grunberg. And then I remind myself that I've only seen the first half or so of the first season, the proof of whether Heroes can maintain will be in the next season and the one after that...