Damian Lewis and Sarah ShahiI had been busting at the seams to tell someone about this TV show when I realized I have a blog! I can say whatever I want! Who cares that my blog is about books? My first love will always be TV!
Anyway. Life. The best show on TV. (Yes, I watch Mad Men. Yes, I watch Heroes. Yessss, I watch Dexter. Still.)
I have been enjoying the action-packed plot-driven TV shows that have been on the past few years (see: Heroes*). But when I watch my Buffy DVDs, I remember fondly the TV shows where the dialogue is the driver of the show. Where you don't want to be distracted because you might miss the smartest line of the night. On Life, those lines are delivered with perfect timing by Damian Lewis or Donal Logue. Really, the show it most reminds me of is Deadwood (without the swearing, naturally). And that's no coincidence seeing as I've spotted three actors from Deadwood on Life.
So, if you can't get enough of delicious snappy dialogue, please give this show a try. It's in the second season and they're not really holding your hand, so I will sum up the plot: Charlie was a detective who was put away for life for brutally murdering his best friend and his friends' family. He didn't do it. After 12 years in prison he was fully exonerated; his freedom and his life were returned to him. In a settlement, the police department gave him millions of dollars and his old job back. Most of the show is solving murders, but the subplot has Charlie trying to find the real killers. So far, he has found the actual killer and put him in jail, but has not found the person who hired the killer. Also, he has taken in the psychologically traumatized young daughter of his murdered friend. Also, maybe if you're lucky, Christina Hendricks will continue to make appearances on the show.
What are other excellent dialog-driven shows (like Buffy, Firefly and Deadwood)? If you tell me, I shall watch them.
*OK, Sylar & Noah as mis-matched partners? Really? What's next? Are they going to fall in looooove?
2 comments:
Yay, another Life watcher! I have to admit I haven't seen any of the second season yet, but it is on the DVR and I plan on catching up this weekend!
Cool! I was so worried it would be canceled. The new season is just as good as the old. But for some reason they got rid of Robin Weigert as the police chief.
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