a Eureka pimping post that also turned into a riff on Pushing Daisies
The third season of Eureka debuts Tuesday, July 29th, on the Sci Fi Channel. Sci Fi will be running a marathon of the first eleven episodes of the second season tomorrow, with episodes 12 and 13 being rebroadcast immediately prior to the third-season debut on Tuesday night.
gin200168, who got me into the show in the first place, has posted an Illustrated Eureka Character Primer with a nicely detailed breakdown of all the show's main characters, intended as a guide for people who are curious about the show, but who may feel reluctant to jump into S3 without the benefit of having seen the first two seasons.
The guide, which obviously contains some spoilers (although she avoids going into detail or revealing anything too major) is an excellent resource for folks who find themselves in that boat, or for those who may have seen the show but find themselves in need of a refresher course.
Really, I'm just trying to pimp the show so that more people watch. This is a charming, occasionally goofy, well-written and thoughtful show with a great premise and with fabulously-developed characters. It has, to paraphrase myself from my post the other day, many delights in common with shows like The Middleman and Pushing Daisies, both of which it shares a number of tonal and narrative kinships with.
Although, in thinking about this since that original post, I'm inclined to say that Pushing Daisies is, ultimately, fundamentally darker at its core than either Eureka or The Middleman, despite the bright colors of the production design and the similar quirkiness of the writing. To vastly oversimplify, Pushing Daisies is about the inevitability of death in all its forms, while Eureka and The Middleman are each, in their own ways, celebrations of life -- moreover, Pushing Daisies doesn't just deal with death, it celebrates it and embraces it as a lover.
Which is something I may need to explore further after I get the S1 DVDs and have a chance to rewatch the show.
gin200168, who got me into the show in the first place, has posted an Illustrated Eureka Character Primer with a nicely detailed breakdown of all the show's main characters, intended as a guide for people who are curious about the show, but who may feel reluctant to jump into S3 without the benefit of having seen the first two seasons.
The guide, which obviously contains some spoilers (although she avoids going into detail or revealing anything too major) is an excellent resource for folks who find themselves in that boat, or for those who may have seen the show but find themselves in need of a refresher course.
Really, I'm just trying to pimp the show so that more people watch. This is a charming, occasionally goofy, well-written and thoughtful show with a great premise and with fabulously-developed characters. It has, to paraphrase myself from my post the other day, many delights in common with shows like The Middleman and Pushing Daisies, both of which it shares a number of tonal and narrative kinships with.
Although, in thinking about this since that original post, I'm inclined to say that Pushing Daisies is, ultimately, fundamentally darker at its core than either Eureka or The Middleman, despite the bright colors of the production design and the similar quirkiness of the writing. To vastly oversimplify, Pushing Daisies is about the inevitability of death in all its forms, while Eureka and The Middleman are each, in their own ways, celebrations of life -- moreover, Pushing Daisies doesn't just deal with death, it celebrates it and embraces it as a lover.
Which is something I may need to explore further after I get the S1 DVDs and have a chance to rewatch the show.