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CSI: Cyber (2015)
Remarkable premise, some real promise
I'm reading some 40+ crash-and-burn reviews on CSI: Cyber and find myself wondering if they live their lives online at the highest levels of cyber skill...and wanted so much more from this television series.
As a very well trained tech girl who works and plays 365 days a year online, I am delighted with this programs' willingness to demonstrate the extensive and at times horrific uses of cyber skill, and especially for a general audience. The newly placed preface opening to the shop, where Arquette speaks quietly to the depth of invasion cyber activity can obtain, its demo via the segment that follows what that can look like, and that there is, in truth, no ending to the battle of privacy invasion. More, psychotic use of high cyber skills can lead to horror for pleasure, just like any other form of crime.
Granted, I'd like Arquette to ratchet it up a bit in facial and human emotional expression. I'd like to see more women at high levels on the team. But I really hope they roll the dice on this show and understand it is playing--and very thoughtfully--to an audience that comes up for air from their basement or bedroom at least once every day (and not for hot pockets), does not work in a cybercrime unit, does not troll the cyberworld just for dates and porn, and understands what can happen to the human mind when it begins to believe it lives inside a kill-or-be-killed computer game.
BTW, CSI: Miami was hardly a failure. It ran 2002-2012, ten years! ;)
NCIS: Naval Criminal Investigative Service: Call of Silence (2004)
The best
Absolutely the best segment in ten years of NCIS programming.
Watching Charles Durning interact with the regular NCIS cast in a most unusual story line is so moving that, even knowing the story--in detail now after all these years of watching my DVD set--I still have to ready myself to watch "Call of Silence" every time I start up the DVD player.
Durning was nominated for an Emmy for his role in this segment of NCIS and, though I have never researched the question, it would not surprise me at all to find that he was awarded numerous awards, some from non-film cultural groups, for his role and the great heart he put into it.
Deeply moving, and magnificent. 10 out of 10.
Dickens (2002)
Superb Recreation with Britain's Top Actors
This evocation and recreation of both the power of Dickens' wordcraft, and the social environment in which he would have both written and presented his own work, is flawlessly recreated for us. Anton Lessor is almost eerily channeling Dickens and, as a Royal Academy veteran, assumes the great range of voice and physical attributes of each character he speaks for as he tells his own stories to his small audience of family and friends, before his own fireplace as would have been done in his lifetime. The series is superb, and there is a first-rate "Making of..." bonus DVD which takes the viewer behind the stagesetting to show us how the series was developed. Absolutely powerful, highly recommended, and moving enough to bring me back to a re-reading of several of Dicken's stronger works--David Copperfield, Nicholas Nickleby, and my beloved Christmas Carol--to read with new insight and appreciation.