The Nine: Season 1, Episode 9 "You're Being Watched" (D+)
If only Lizzie could have been working with Lucas and Randall and skipped town after having lied to them all thsi time. This show is in need of a major reinvention, and shady cable guys are not going to cut it. Is anything actually happening on this show besides the installation of a whole lot of free cable? Tim Daly, by the way, needs to slow down when delivering his lines and pause occasionally to show a tiny bit of emotion. I am a big fan of his, but this is not his best performance by a long shot.
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Friday, August 10, 2007
Thursday, August 2, 2007
Series Return: The Nine
The Nine: Season 1, Episode 8 "Turning Point" (C-)
I think that my excitement that this show was returning made me forget that this really was not a great show. It started out superbly, but then sort of got worse and worse as more time each episode was focused on the events after the bank, which were nowhere near as interesting as what happened during the robbery. In the case of this episode, neither is terribly great. The interview style of the present-day segments serves as a good storytelling technique, but nothing pops out as startlingly interesting. I could not care less about Kathryn's impending D.A. run, and I would love for Joshua Malina to get a fuller role (luckily, he will be the star ABC's new show "Big Shots" this fall). As far as the hold-up goes, Randall is far too unstable a hostage-taker and the hostages really seem to be running the show. After watching "The Kill Point", I am realizing that as intriguing as the dynamic between brothers Randall and Lucas used to be, this hostage drama just does not work terribly well.
I think that my excitement that this show was returning made me forget that this really was not a great show. It started out superbly, but then sort of got worse and worse as more time each episode was focused on the events after the bank, which were nowhere near as interesting as what happened during the robbery. In the case of this episode, neither is terribly great. The interview style of the present-day segments serves as a good storytelling technique, but nothing pops out as startlingly interesting. I could not care less about Kathryn's impending D.A. run, and I would love for Joshua Malina to get a fuller role (luckily, he will be the star ABC's new show "Big Shots" this fall). As far as the hold-up goes, Randall is far too unstable a hostage-taker and the hostages really seem to be running the show. After watching "The Kill Point", I am realizing that as intriguing as the dynamic between brothers Randall and Lucas used to be, this hostage drama just does not work terribly well.
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