And this is why we love Tim Minear

[meganbmoore]

So, lately, I have been watching The Inside with prozacpark. It's a pretty spiffy about an FBI team. The boss, Web, is a bit evil and sadistic and likes to surround himself with people with Issues. Because apparently, people who could snap at any given time are much better at it than anyone else. I rather love him for it, because it means that he stamped the approval papers for Rebecca Locke, a young profiler who failed the entrance exam several times, due to the part where she was kidnapped as a child and returned on her own a year later with no memories of where she'd been or how she'd escaped. She's wonderfully unhinged.

But before Tim Minear got ahold of the series, it was this: 

 

THE INSIDE: At first glance, DANNY ROBERTS (RACHEL NICHOLS, “Dumb & Dumberer”) seems to be the quintessential American teenager, dating the quarterback at a suburban high school. Only a few know her secret: Danny is not really a high school student, but a 22-year-old federal agent working undercover. Helping Danny – who is actually Agent ELIZABETH WORTH – maintain her cover is Agent SEAN ECKHARDT (PETER FACINELLI, “Fastlane”). In the pilot episode, Danny/Elizabeth’s drug investigation is sidetracked when her high school “boyfriend” is murdered. She must confront the pressures of getting personally involved in the lives of her classmates, while working to solve the murder and put the drug investigation back on track – all without blowing her cover. Over the course of the series, Danny’s assignments will vary, but she always faces the unique challenges of going undercover to solve crimes.
ETA:  Seriously, it went from that to this:



Though, the idea of Rebecca in pink...

*wonders if Rebecca even knows what pink IS*

Comments

[foenix.livejournal.com]

This show started off iffy for me, but quickly grew interesting. I wish it was a little more...something. Anything to make it more than just a well done precedural. In the sea of L&Os and CSIs and NCISes, it's no wonder it got buried and died quickly.

I do miss it though, and this and Alias have made me a pretty big fan of Rachel Nichols.

[prozacpark.livejournal.com]

I always saw "The Inside" more as a psychological thriller that used the structure of a procedural to explore the messed up psyches of its characters. It never felt like a typical procedural to me, and I never found the cases they worked on very suspenseful and they interested me in only so much as they affected the characters.

I do think that it mostly got buried because a lot of people (including me, at first) did dismiss it as a procedural. And also? Because FOX buried it during the summer rerun season.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

Who was she in Alias?

[foenix.livejournal.com]

She came into the last season, along with Amy Acker.

She played a computer genius named Rachel Gibson, and was kiiinda being groomed to take over the show if it came back and Garner wanted out.

Or maybe I just thought that's what they were doing. ;)

[uclamaverick.livejournal.com]

Rachel Nichols is very hot in that last season of Alias. Along with Amy Acker, she was also joined by Balthazar Getty in that final season. I miss Alias. But hey, we get to see more Rachel Nichols as Scarlet in G.I. Joe the movie.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

I didn't realize that was her in G.I. Joe.