Now I'm the first person to admit that I'm set in my ways about what TV shows I intend to watch when Fall rolls around (check out last entry) I normally stick to my returning series but I like to give the new crop of shows a chance...and well I want to talk about 2 in particular...NBC 'The Blacklist' & FOX 'Sleepy Hollow'
The Blacklist 'NBC' Pilot aired Monday 23rd September 2013:
NBC has continued to surprise me recently, they know how to put a well written, well cast and a plain good Drama on our screens...
I didn't hear about this show until I looked up Fall Pilots. after the success of 'Hannibal' I wasn't expecting to tune into this network again until late October/early November when they rolled out 'Dracula' but this clever drama caught my attention from the opening seconds to the big twist/eventual big story line right in its final minutes...
Never trust a criminal...until you have to. Is the show's tagline and from the poster alone its not hard to tell who the villain/bad guy is...James Spader plays Raymond 'Red' Reddington - One of the country's most wanted men after being on the run for some 20 years after leaking documents to the wrong people for the highest price suddenly hands himself in...
In my eyes a villain requires a certain amount of charisma, I want to be hooked and dragged into his deranged and well organised mind. I also want to be wary that behind all that charisma lies a deeper intent. James Spader is the perfect mixture, well cast NBC...
Only snag for me was the introduction of the main female lead, Elizabeth Kane played by Megan Boone - a fresh eyed first day on the job profiler who apparently has 'no' connection to Raymond but is the only person he'll talk to...SPOILER...she has a hidden past that Raymond might know a thing or to about, also the big twist at the end involving her husband and a box (hidden under floorboards containing fake passports and a gun) was enough to potentially turn her character around for me...
I'll have to see what episode 2 brings along, this could be a show to watch as in the future I could see it going somewhere, since a couple of big Drama's 'Breaking Bad' & 'Dexter' are coming to an end...watch the pilot I highly recommend it, who knows you might have a different opinion than me.
NBC has continued to surprise me recently, they know how to put a well written, well cast and a plain good Drama on our screens...
I didn't hear about this show until I looked up Fall Pilots. after the success of 'Hannibal' I wasn't expecting to tune into this network again until late October/early November when they rolled out 'Dracula' but this clever drama caught my attention from the opening seconds to the big twist/eventual big story line right in its final minutes...
Never trust a criminal...until you have to. Is the show's tagline and from the poster alone its not hard to tell who the villain/bad guy is...James Spader plays Raymond 'Red' Reddington - One of the country's most wanted men after being on the run for some 20 years after leaking documents to the wrong people for the highest price suddenly hands himself in...
In my eyes a villain requires a certain amount of charisma, I want to be hooked and dragged into his deranged and well organised mind. I also want to be wary that behind all that charisma lies a deeper intent. James Spader is the perfect mixture, well cast NBC...
Only snag for me was the introduction of the main female lead, Elizabeth Kane played by Megan Boone - a fresh eyed first day on the job profiler who apparently has 'no' connection to Raymond but is the only person he'll talk to...SPOILER...she has a hidden past that Raymond might know a thing or to about, also the big twist at the end involving her husband and a box (hidden under floorboards containing fake passports and a gun) was enough to potentially turn her character around for me...
I'll have to see what episode 2 brings along, this could be a show to watch as in the future I could see it going somewhere, since a couple of big Drama's 'Breaking Bad' & 'Dexter' are coming to an end...watch the pilot I highly recommend it, who knows you might have a different opinion than me.
Sleepy Hollow 'FOX' pilot aired Monday 16th September 2013:
If you want to lose yourself for a solid 45 minutes on a Monday night than Sleepy Hollow is the show for you...
The pilot...SPOILER... starts off during a civil war scene, the main character Ichabod Crane played by the hugely talented and underrated Brit 'Tom Mison' chops off the head of what we assume to be a masked man, but later turns out to be one of the four horseman of the apocalypse 'Death' (yes you heard me) Crane in the process dies and through a blood link cast by some witches (just keep reading) is linked to the horseman...someone awakens the horseman and in the process brings Crane back from the dead...
flash forward some 250 years and Crane wakes up in an underground cave surrounded by strange jars...he's in modern day Sleepy Hollow...Tom Mison is excellent at portraying the confusion at modern day technology and food tax, you almost believe that he's from the civil war era...
The horseman is galloping around town chopping heads off left right and center introducing us to our main female lead, Lt. Abbie Mills played by 'Nicole Beharie' a cop with a demonic past (literally, perfect pairing, a good way to develop these two characters chemistry)
By the end of the pilot we discover the future story line for the rest of season 1 (hopefully FOX will pick this up for a 2nd series - took 12 million views on Monday night - that's a lot of people watching) Death is trying to bring back the other three horsemen to bring about the apocalypse along with summoning a few bad beings a long the way (Entertaining stuff I think)...
The show already shows signs of great mythology being bought into the limelight, their looking at history and how supernatural beings are linked through certain events...as long as they don't over complicate it too much then this show could be another one to keep our eyes on...
If you want to lose yourself for a solid 45 minutes on a Monday night than Sleepy Hollow is the show for you...
The pilot...SPOILER... starts off during a civil war scene, the main character Ichabod Crane played by the hugely talented and underrated Brit 'Tom Mison' chops off the head of what we assume to be a masked man, but later turns out to be one of the four horseman of the apocalypse 'Death' (yes you heard me) Crane in the process dies and through a blood link cast by some witches (just keep reading) is linked to the horseman...someone awakens the horseman and in the process brings Crane back from the dead...
flash forward some 250 years and Crane wakes up in an underground cave surrounded by strange jars...he's in modern day Sleepy Hollow...Tom Mison is excellent at portraying the confusion at modern day technology and food tax, you almost believe that he's from the civil war era...
The horseman is galloping around town chopping heads off left right and center introducing us to our main female lead, Lt. Abbie Mills played by 'Nicole Beharie' a cop with a demonic past (literally, perfect pairing, a good way to develop these two characters chemistry)
By the end of the pilot we discover the future story line for the rest of season 1 (hopefully FOX will pick this up for a 2nd series - took 12 million views on Monday night - that's a lot of people watching) Death is trying to bring back the other three horsemen to bring about the apocalypse along with summoning a few bad beings a long the way (Entertaining stuff I think)...
The show already shows signs of great mythology being bought into the limelight, their looking at history and how supernatural beings are linked through certain events...as long as they don't over complicate it too much then this show could be another one to keep our eyes on...
Which Fall TV pilots will you be watching?
also if your watching any returning series which o