CHAOS starring James Murray and a bunch of compassionate guys
Despite being half way around the world, I manage to keep my finger on the pulse of the new series - CHAOS.
It takes time, patience and some sleuthing, but I manage, despite all that, to keep up to date. If I didn't, I'd probably have to wait the best part of a year before the series managed to find it's way down to me, here. Either that, or I'd have to wait for the DVD of the series to come out.
I'm way too impatient to wait THAT long.
Anyway, I watched the second episode with some anticipation, as the Pilot had been a bit ruined with all the clips (out of context, for the most part), but this episode - Song of the North - was largely unknown.
In the pilot, they had set the scene of a fun, fast paced and quirky series. In this episode you got to see the four amigos acting more on their inate goodness - being bad for the sake of being good - than just larking about like overgrown boy scouts.
Again, Freddy Rodriguez was a standout as the newbie with a heart, his fellow operatives also showing that they are far from being completely jaded, and in fact almost wear their hearts on their collective sleeves when it comes to protecting and saving innocents caught up in political machinations.
This episode proved without a doubt, to me atleast, that together these guys are capable of doing almost anything once they set their heart on it.
And that's not a bad thing. I don't suggest that what they do is realistic or even believable in the world we live in, but it's a nice fantasy to think there are these guys being bad for the sake of doing good, whatever the odds.
I enjoyed it, and there were some lovely by-plays between the characters, more of their foibles and quirks on display if you cared to look, and also some interesting history dragged out, as well.
Roll on next friday.
It takes time, patience and some sleuthing, but I manage, despite all that, to keep up to date. If I didn't, I'd probably have to wait the best part of a year before the series managed to find it's way down to me, here. Either that, or I'd have to wait for the DVD of the series to come out.
I'm way too impatient to wait THAT long.
Anyway, I watched the second episode with some anticipation, as the Pilot had been a bit ruined with all the clips (out of context, for the most part), but this episode - Song of the North - was largely unknown.
In the pilot, they had set the scene of a fun, fast paced and quirky series. In this episode you got to see the four amigos acting more on their inate goodness - being bad for the sake of being good - than just larking about like overgrown boy scouts.
Again, Freddy Rodriguez was a standout as the newbie with a heart, his fellow operatives also showing that they are far from being completely jaded, and in fact almost wear their hearts on their collective sleeves when it comes to protecting and saving innocents caught up in political machinations.
This episode proved without a doubt, to me atleast, that together these guys are capable of doing almost anything once they set their heart on it.
And that's not a bad thing. I don't suggest that what they do is realistic or even believable in the world we live in, but it's a nice fantasy to think there are these guys being bad for the sake of doing good, whatever the odds.
I enjoyed it, and there were some lovely by-plays between the characters, more of their foibles and quirks on display if you cared to look, and also some interesting history dragged out, as well.
Roll on next friday.