The Firm
2012, USA
NBC Thursday 10Pm
Episode 1.01: “Pilot”
Directed by David Straiton
Written by Lukas Reiter, developed for television by Lukas Reiter, based on the novel The Firm by John Grisham.
With Prime Suspect regretfully cancelled, NBC has decided to fill the Thursday 10Pm slot with The Firm and gave us the two hour pilot on Sunday.
Given that Prime Suspect was my favourite new show and my second favourite show on broadcast TV after The Good Wife, The Firm has perhaps an unfair burden to carry. So, let’s not consider it in relation to other procedurals, let’s consider the show in relation to itself. In other words, what part of this shit sandwich that NBC fed us on Sunday is any good?
Well, the foundation of any sandwich is the bread and The Firm is based on a very strong novel by John Grisham – his most...
2012, USA
NBC Thursday 10Pm
Episode 1.01: “Pilot”
Directed by David Straiton
Written by Lukas Reiter, developed for television by Lukas Reiter, based on the novel The Firm by John Grisham.
With Prime Suspect regretfully cancelled, NBC has decided to fill the Thursday 10Pm slot with The Firm and gave us the two hour pilot on Sunday.
Given that Prime Suspect was my favourite new show and my second favourite show on broadcast TV after The Good Wife, The Firm has perhaps an unfair burden to carry. So, let’s not consider it in relation to other procedurals, let’s consider the show in relation to itself. In other words, what part of this shit sandwich that NBC fed us on Sunday is any good?
Well, the foundation of any sandwich is the bread and The Firm is based on a very strong novel by John Grisham – his most...
- 1/11/2012
- by Michael Ryan
- SoundOnSight
Harry’s Law
Created by David E. Kelley
imdb, NBC, Wednesday at 9Pm
1.01 Pilot
Directed by Bill D’Elia
Written by David E. Kelley
2.01 Hosanna Roseanna
Directed by Bill D’Elia
Written by David E. Kelley
2.02 There Will Be Blood
Directed by Bill D’Elia
Written by David E. Kelley
2.03 Sins of the Father
Directed by Mike Listo
Written by David E. Kelley
2.06 The Rematch
Directed by Michael Katleman
Written by David E. Kelley, Amanda Johns and Susan Dickes
Harry’s Law is a fantastic example how you can kill a procedural by changing its status quo.
Procedural fans generally resist changes to the status quo. Sherlock Holmes lives at 221B Baker Street in London, Columbo drives a crappy 1959 Peugot convertible, Quincy lives on a boat. Messing with these sacred cows draws nothing but howls of outrage.
There are two exceptions.
When the series is a star vehicle, you can...
Created by David E. Kelley
imdb, NBC, Wednesday at 9Pm
1.01 Pilot
Directed by Bill D’Elia
Written by David E. Kelley
2.01 Hosanna Roseanna
Directed by Bill D’Elia
Written by David E. Kelley
2.02 There Will Be Blood
Directed by Bill D’Elia
Written by David E. Kelley
2.03 Sins of the Father
Directed by Mike Listo
Written by David E. Kelley
2.06 The Rematch
Directed by Michael Katleman
Written by David E. Kelley, Amanda Johns and Susan Dickes
Harry’s Law is a fantastic example how you can kill a procedural by changing its status quo.
Procedural fans generally resist changes to the status quo. Sherlock Holmes lives at 221B Baker Street in London, Columbo drives a crappy 1959 Peugot convertible, Quincy lives on a boat. Messing with these sacred cows draws nothing but howls of outrage.
There are two exceptions.
When the series is a star vehicle, you can...
- 11/9/2011
- by Michael Ryan
- SoundOnSight
Prime Suspect
Created by Lynda La Plante and Alexandra Cunningham
Based on the ITV series Prime Suspect created by Lynda La Plante
imdb, NBC, Thursdays at 10 Pm
1.01 Pilot
Directed by Peter Berg
Written by Alexandra Cunningham
1.02 Carnivorous Sheep
Directed by Jonas Pate
Written by Alexandra Cunningham
1.03 Bitch
Directed by Michael Waxman
Written by Liz Heldens
1.04 Great Guy, Yet: Dead
Directed by Jonas Pate
Written by John McNamara
*****
The U.S. Prime Suspect has one terrible, undeniable problem: its title. Even though the U.S. Prime Suspect is closely based on the U.K. Prime Suspect, the title just doesn’t work. The reason for this has everything to do with the structural difference between U.S. broadcast network prime-time and U.K. broadcast network prime-time.
The original Prime Suspect is one of the best TV shows of all time. In bringing us the adventures of Dci Jane Tennison, Lynda La Plante...
Created by Lynda La Plante and Alexandra Cunningham
Based on the ITV series Prime Suspect created by Lynda La Plante
imdb, NBC, Thursdays at 10 Pm
1.01 Pilot
Directed by Peter Berg
Written by Alexandra Cunningham
1.02 Carnivorous Sheep
Directed by Jonas Pate
Written by Alexandra Cunningham
1.03 Bitch
Directed by Michael Waxman
Written by Liz Heldens
1.04 Great Guy, Yet: Dead
Directed by Jonas Pate
Written by John McNamara
*****
The U.S. Prime Suspect has one terrible, undeniable problem: its title. Even though the U.S. Prime Suspect is closely based on the U.K. Prime Suspect, the title just doesn’t work. The reason for this has everything to do with the structural difference between U.S. broadcast network prime-time and U.K. broadcast network prime-time.
The original Prime Suspect is one of the best TV shows of all time. In bringing us the adventures of Dci Jane Tennison, Lynda La Plante...
- 10/26/2011
- by Michael Ryan
- SoundOnSight
The Unjust (Bu-dang-geo-rae)
Written by Hoon-jung Park
Directed by Seung-wan Ryoo
South Korea, 2010
“That you may be sons of your Father in heaven; for He makes His sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.” -Matthew 5:45
There is a sequence in Hergé’s Tintin adventure Flight 714 when Captain Haddock has a problem with a piece of sticking plaster and when he finally gets rid of it, the band-aid makes it way from stewardess to passenger to crew to pilot and back again to Haddock, until everyone in the plane has had some kind of run-in with the sticky thing. While that slapstick sequence is played for laughs and The Unjust is one of the grimmest, darkest crime dramas ever made, like the passengers of Flight 714, the passengers of The Unjust are stuck, not with a band-aid, but with...
Written by Hoon-jung Park
Directed by Seung-wan Ryoo
South Korea, 2010
“That you may be sons of your Father in heaven; for He makes His sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.” -Matthew 5:45
There is a sequence in Hergé’s Tintin adventure Flight 714 when Captain Haddock has a problem with a piece of sticking plaster and when he finally gets rid of it, the band-aid makes it way from stewardess to passenger to crew to pilot and back again to Haddock, until everyone in the plane has had some kind of run-in with the sticky thing. While that slapstick sequence is played for laughs and The Unjust is one of the grimmest, darkest crime dramas ever made, like the passengers of Flight 714, the passengers of The Unjust are stuck, not with a band-aid, but with...
- 7/18/2011
- by Michael Ryan
- SoundOnSight
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