Forever is okay but it's nothing great, in fact, it's fairly derivative (and at least I bothered to watch it before stating an opinion )
In reviewing this list: »www.tvguide.com/special/ ··· ows.aspx I realize there just isn't all that much that interests me in the "new fall lineup" category.
Tea Leoni is a terrible actress,about just as bad as her soon to be ex...........I refuse to watch anything either do.
There really isn't any show that stands out this Fall..........and why they insist on doing remakes of British shows that were brutal in the 1st place is beyond me.
Based on the British series Broadchurch..........Gracepoint even has the same boring lead actor.
Tea Leoni is a terrible actress,about just as bad as her soon to be ex...........I refuse to watch anything either do.
I don't recall seeing her in anything else offhand, have no idea who her soon-to-be ex is, but she's quite good in Madam Secretary -- one friend felt similar to you (but perhaps not as passionately ) and it's must watch show for her now. Maybe she just needed the right part.
Gracepoint will be ruined, Americans tend to ruin almost everything they copy. Just look at the great story Life on Mars was, and the it got pulled (though technically it wasn't renewed)
Looks like the Brits have commisoned a 2nd series of Broadchurch for 2015.
The same TV column that crapped on Gracepoint has good things to say about Happy Valley, a six-episode Netflix series.
Excerpt:
Another day, another dollar, another well-built crime drama full of agonizing violence. This time, its Happy Valley, the latest offering from Netflix, which stars Sarah Lancashire as Catherine Cawood, a police sergeant in rural England. Does the show pass the worth the pain test? It does, owing in part to the topnotch performance of Lancashire, who, with her soup-bowl eyes and blond bangs, resembles the pop star Adeleif Adele were a detective, a grandmother, and a dedicated agent of vengeance.
At six episodes, Happy Valley is satisfyingly compressed: as boring as it is to compare TV to novels, its hard to miss the parallels here, since the show is the analogue of a tasty crime thriller, the sort that one might buy in order to kill time on a long flight, only to find that its psychological grip lingers longer than expected...
Happy Valley honors the Miss Marple-esque truism that peaceful countrysides are anything but. Neighbors know one another, but that doesnt make things cozy; it just means that, when a cop catches a junkie, shes seen him grow up. In this economically depressed setting, Cawood is bringing up Ryan, the child of her daughter, whose sudden, violent death, and its aftermath, wrecked Cawoods marriage. The grandchilds father is in prison, having committed awful crimes, and when hes released Cawood becomes possessed by fantasies of marking his card. Her sister begs her to deal with her hatred in a rational way. Ive no intention of dealing with it rationally, she replies. My intention is to deal with it effectively.
I have hope for Gotham since the second episode. I could not stand watching Forever. I like the Leftovers a lot.
Gotham is at times interesting and yet so damn frustrating. The actor playing Oswald Cobblepot is chewing up scenery with an abandon not seen since William Shanter in ST:TOS but he isn't as interesting to watch (He comes across s a whiny little brat TBH)
Meanwhile the actress doing Selina Kyle has been doing an entertaining job with the role she's been given... I'm wondering if at some point she tries to meet up with Bruce Wayne to talk to him (probably looking to bargain for something though)
Forever is at least so far not overusing the "OMG He CAn Kill Himself And Be Resurrected" gimmick too much (heck, in the latest ep. he stayed alive the entire time)
Haven't yet watched the second ep on "How To Get Away With Murder" but the premiere has it dangerously close to my drop list already so we'll see how that goes.
Just started watching it last night.. oh it's going to be good, the 'tension' (can't think of a better word right now) between Bohannan and the Swede is just to good to describe.
I really tried to like Dominion, but just like with Constantine...it's just missing something that I can't quite put my finger on it. I mean I like the actors and the overall story in both (at least what I saw so far) but something just makes me go "Meh, nothing else to see so I'll just watch an episode of X for now".
I mad because I thought it was done, watched 10 episodes and said whaaaaa it can't end that way..there's not conclusion... then found they took a month off.