CHASE RETURNS! Awesome.
Posted on 06/14/2010 3:24:37 PM PDT by DGHoodini
Just watched the sneak preview of AMC's upcoming series m hosted by Hulu. It's called 'Rubicon', and will premier on AMC on August 9th I believe. The Sneak Preview, is just shy of an hour long, and IMO, if it is indicative of the rest of the series, then AMC's got a winner on it's hands.
Link to the Premier episode on Hulu: http://www.hulu.com/watch/156037/rubicon-pilot
Justified on FX is also watchable.
Thank you
No problem. I hadn’t see anything about it till this article.
Watched the preview at Hulu, was a bit slow but sounds interesting. Especially if they keep the tracking ‘secrets’ out of crosswords and such. It held my attention, but I like cerebral things and historical fiction so guess this fits right in.
But first show is in August, might forget about it by then. We got Warehouse 13 and Eureka coming back ... good shows. And once or two on the ‘old MSM’ channels ... like Hawaii 50. Enjoyed Jack Lord so guess I’ll try it with Alex O’Laughlin. He’s okay but think they will miss out on the originals charm.
Rubicon is promising and I look forward to future episodes. Such a series though can become tedious and formulaic once the central premise is exhausted. Good writing will be needed to maintain the credibility of a conspiracy that is ruthless and vastly powerful but is somehow unable or unwilling to kill off the one man who threatens to comprehend and expose it.
It can be done. Robert Ludlum weote many a book with such characters and plot lines, Not just the Bourne series. And he was certainly quite good at it. I spent many an engrossed evenings reading about the adventures of his erstwhile heroes, many a years ago. As one person mentioned, they saw the pilot as a little slow, but to me it was more a matter of setting the stage for a matrix of intricate subplots that will eventually build to a keening crescendo of events...But then I could be reading more into it than will out.
I certainly think it has enough potential to give it a few episodes to live up to my hopes for it.
Isn’t a new show (USA/Covert Affairs?) coming on basically ‘Alias’ with a new actress in the lead?
CHASE RETURNS! Awesome.
I think that's exactly right. MadMen, which coincidentally happens to be produced by a David Chase protege, is another excellent offering from AMC.
These shows all share terrific writing, very good production values with many being shot on location, and I believe fewer commercials than traditional broadcast television. I watched the finale of Lost "live". It's one of the only shows I have watched not on TiVo the last 4-5 years. I really was taken aback by the number and the length of the commercials. It makes watching broadcast television almost unbearable.
I remember back in 77-78, every 14-15 year old boy watched it to catch a glimpse of skin. We even had to walk across the room to change the channel.
Mad Men, for example, is remarkably good at conveying a sense of the 1960's through period appropriate clothing and sets, reminding us of an era in which predatory organizational careerism was seen as normal and commendable.
Breaking Bad convincingly portrays the key aspects of a criminal enterprise as management and employee trust and performance issues, with nuances foreshadowing later developments.
Justified is also quite good.
“his employers may be part of a secret society that manipulates world events on a grand scale”.....
You mean like...The Overton Window?????
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