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Both Revolution and Beauty and the Beast were confirmed for renewals this week, and since Elementary was renewed a while back, all 3 new fall shows that I picked up and am still watching are renewed. This is a first for me.
Beauty and the Beast 1.18-1.19:
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Continuum 2.1:
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Defiance 1.1-1.2: NO ONE TOLD ME STEPHANIE LEONIDAS WAS IN THIS SERIES. EVERYONE IS FIRED. (And with a wig and makeup that makes her look like Jool's extra temperamental younger sister.)
Actually, playing "spot the Farscape makeup" while watching is pretty fun. It wasn't quite as much fun to wonder if I was watching a reworking of the Eureka pilot in large parts of the pilot, though. (I guess the Eureka writers had to go somewhere? Good thing I liked Eureka.)
I give it 1 1/2 thumbs up. Half a thumb is denied because I find the two main male characters, Nolan and Datak, annoying and uninteresting and can tell that (A) they'll be everywhere and (B) I'm supposed to find Datak complex and fascinating, and Nolan roguish and charming (which I might, if they dial back the "chauvinism is cute and charming if it's coming from a scruffy white dude" bit a lot. I did start liking Jack Carter and Pete Lattimer after a little while, though, and all 3 are that same type of "all American white dude who isn't booksmart but has great instincts" thing SyFy seems to required almost all their main characters to have. I suppose I may eventually like Datak, too.) I do appear to be invested in their respective family dynamics, though.
I think this is connected to a video game, but i know little about that.
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Elementary 1.20: Wow was this episode potentially triggering on various levels. (Though i liked the episode overall, but what a mystery plot to have for one of the few episodes I manage to catch live, and so not hear rumblings about beforehand.)
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Foyle's War: Series 8: Set in 1946, the "final" (look, this is I think the 3rd time BBC has said "no more Foyle ever," so I figure there's a 50/50 chance they'll just keep cancelling it until Michael Kitchen says he's too old to keep this up) series starts with Foyle returning to England from America after the events of Series 7, and promptly being recruited by the foreign office (and then promptly recruiting Sam). The series largely focuses on the beginnings of the Cold War and England's post-war political and economic condition, and spymistress Hilda Pierce shows up and runs everything in every episode. Though overall feel is shaken up from previous series, a little bit closer to The Hour and The Bletchley Circle at times, but still excellent. Fair warning: the last episode deals fairly heavily with war crimes and PTSD.
Person of Interest 2.20:
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Revolution 1.14:
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I think I'm current on everything but Bomb Girls, Nikita, and The Borgias. The first 2 only have a couple more episodes to air this season( or ever in one case, possibly in both) so I might as well wait, and I just haven't been in the mood for The Borgias.
Beauty and the Beast 1.18-1.19:
( spoilers )
Continuum 2.1:
( spoilers )
Defiance 1.1-1.2: NO ONE TOLD ME STEPHANIE LEONIDAS WAS IN THIS SERIES. EVERYONE IS FIRED. (And with a wig and makeup that makes her look like Jool's extra temperamental younger sister.)
Actually, playing "spot the Farscape makeup" while watching is pretty fun. It wasn't quite as much fun to wonder if I was watching a reworking of the Eureka pilot in large parts of the pilot, though. (I guess the Eureka writers had to go somewhere? Good thing I liked Eureka.)
I give it 1 1/2 thumbs up. Half a thumb is denied because I find the two main male characters, Nolan and Datak, annoying and uninteresting and can tell that (A) they'll be everywhere and (B) I'm supposed to find Datak complex and fascinating, and Nolan roguish and charming (which I might, if they dial back the "chauvinism is cute and charming if it's coming from a scruffy white dude" bit a lot. I did start liking Jack Carter and Pete Lattimer after a little while, though, and all 3 are that same type of "all American white dude who isn't booksmart but has great instincts" thing SyFy seems to required almost all their main characters to have. I suppose I may eventually like Datak, too.) I do appear to be invested in their respective family dynamics, though.
I think this is connected to a video game, but i know little about that.
( spoilers )
Elementary 1.20: Wow was this episode potentially triggering on various levels. (Though i liked the episode overall, but what a mystery plot to have for one of the few episodes I manage to catch live, and so not hear rumblings about beforehand.)
( spoilers )
Foyle's War: Series 8: Set in 1946, the "final" (look, this is I think the 3rd time BBC has said "no more Foyle ever," so I figure there's a 50/50 chance they'll just keep cancelling it until Michael Kitchen says he's too old to keep this up) series starts with Foyle returning to England from America after the events of Series 7, and promptly being recruited by the foreign office (and then promptly recruiting Sam). The series largely focuses on the beginnings of the Cold War and England's post-war political and economic condition, and spymistress Hilda Pierce shows up and runs everything in every episode. Though overall feel is shaken up from previous series, a little bit closer to The Hour and The Bletchley Circle at times, but still excellent. Fair warning: the last episode deals fairly heavily with war crimes and PTSD.
Person of Interest 2.20:
( spoilers )
Revolution 1.14:
( spoilers )
I think I'm current on everything but Bomb Girls, Nikita, and The Borgias. The first 2 only have a couple more episodes to air this season( or ever in one case, possibly in both) so I might as well wait, and I just haven't been in the mood for The Borgias.