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Hung out to dry...
Mar. 8th, 2015 09:17 pmTalk about a first world problem...
I've had a bit of time to kill during my recuperation (probably not a good idea, but that's how it turned out), so I started "surfing" Hulu for shows to watch.
So I end up watching something called Endgame, which follows the detecting exploits of an agoraphobic Russian emigre chess grandmaster who is "trapped" inside a hotel as the result of having suffered mental trauma from watching his fiance get killed in front of the establishment.
Some of the stories are imaginatively written, and the writers did a fairly good job of trying to give the viewer an idea of the kinds of variational analysis that takes place in our hero's mind as he drives toward a solution.
Then, in the thirteenth episode, all sorts of questions get asked in the story line, which sorta/kinda suggests this is an end-of-season cliffhanger.
And wouldn't you know it? The show never came back for a second season.
Then there was Jo, a police procedural set in Paris and starring Jean Reno, a detective with some kind of elite metropolitan squad. Besides solving crime (as is what we expect of such characters), he lives a pretty screwed-up life. He is estranged from his adult daughter, who has a criminal boyfriend. He drinks and pops pills. She pops pills, too.
The cases and personal arcs are interesting enough to keep me coming back for more. Episode 8 was probably the best of the set, as it introduces us to a "black widow" who is seemingly untouchable, especially as she has a Deputy Minister wrapped around her little finger. The show ends with her sashaying out the door of an interrogation room with a retinue of lawyers, while Reno's character contemplates having to face an internal affairs invesigation.
So what happens next?
Beats me. The proposed second season was cancelled.
I think just about the only show that got the cancellation thing right was Life, starring Damien Lewis. As I understand it, however, the people putting the show together became aware of the cancellation far enough ahead to be able to bring the story line to a satisfactory close and tie off all the loose ends. Bravo!
One may argue, of course, that sudden cancellations offer ample opportunity for folks to write fanfic, but all that's way above my pay grade.
Cheers...
I've had a bit of time to kill during my recuperation (probably not a good idea, but that's how it turned out), so I started "surfing" Hulu for shows to watch.
So I end up watching something called Endgame, which follows the detecting exploits of an agoraphobic Russian emigre chess grandmaster who is "trapped" inside a hotel as the result of having suffered mental trauma from watching his fiance get killed in front of the establishment.
Some of the stories are imaginatively written, and the writers did a fairly good job of trying to give the viewer an idea of the kinds of variational analysis that takes place in our hero's mind as he drives toward a solution.
Then, in the thirteenth episode, all sorts of questions get asked in the story line, which sorta/kinda suggests this is an end-of-season cliffhanger.
And wouldn't you know it? The show never came back for a second season.
Then there was Jo, a police procedural set in Paris and starring Jean Reno, a detective with some kind of elite metropolitan squad. Besides solving crime (as is what we expect of such characters), he lives a pretty screwed-up life. He is estranged from his adult daughter, who has a criminal boyfriend. He drinks and pops pills. She pops pills, too.
The cases and personal arcs are interesting enough to keep me coming back for more. Episode 8 was probably the best of the set, as it introduces us to a "black widow" who is seemingly untouchable, especially as she has a Deputy Minister wrapped around her little finger. The show ends with her sashaying out the door of an interrogation room with a retinue of lawyers, while Reno's character contemplates having to face an internal affairs invesigation.
So what happens next?
Beats me. The proposed second season was cancelled.
I think just about the only show that got the cancellation thing right was Life, starring Damien Lewis. As I understand it, however, the people putting the show together became aware of the cancellation far enough ahead to be able to bring the story line to a satisfactory close and tie off all the loose ends. Bravo!
One may argue, of course, that sudden cancellations offer ample opportunity for folks to write fanfic, but all that's way above my pay grade.
Cheers...
